UK survey: single men don't change bed sheets

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I usually change sheets twice a week---Thursday and Sunday. I was completely spoiled by my mom, who changed them every two or three days when I was growing up. She loved having crisp, fresh sheets on the beds, as do I.

Can't imagine going 8-12 weeks...yikes!
 
Clean Beds

I have a beagle his beds get washed every week,and my bed every 5days and I shower every night before bed.I cant imagine folks not washing bedding.I worked at the phone company for 30 years and sometimes I would go into peoples bedrooms to check a jack,you wouldnt believe the old sheet smell and sometimes they smelled like a locker room.If you had to move a bed no telling what you might find under it,Nasty!!!! By the way my beagle luvs his clean bedding,he will pat it and almost smile if he could.
 
Garden State Comments

This info has to be the most disgusting things I've ever read!

MONTHS? WEEKS? Really, people.

When I was a child we were poor and lived in a tenement. My OL changed sheets every week (or "sent them out" if the weather was nasty). If I was sick, my OL changed my sheets every day, and usually washed the blanket too. My sister (infant) had the thrush and had to be treated with gentian violet. One holy mess every day. Me, having the tonsillitis or high-fever measles or other long-gone 50s diseases, it was such a comfort to have fresh sheets and linens.

I would like to think we live in an enlightened society of cleanliness and hygiene.

Oof.

Guess I'm wrong.
 
The Same

I am the same as Optima here Monday morning I do my bedding, it either gets a 60 or a 90 alternately, I once new a guy who told me he turned his sheets over to save washing them frequently..........that to me is grim ;-(
 
Not surprising and not only in the UK. All you have to do is go into a USA gym (MY GYM part of a chain of gyms all over New York city down to Washington DC.) Go into the locker room and look at how the guys treat everything. They shower, leave their towels laying on the floor for the cleaning crew to pick up. They walk around buck naked showing their saggy floppy parts no one wants to see.

I've even seen guys shaving in the steam room. They shave, shake their razor toward the wet floor, then keep on shaving. If you say anything to them about this they think you are a lunatic.

They cut their toenails and leave them all over the locker room floor.

They are pigs.
 
When I upgraded

my DSL from 12 to 24,
the phone guy was here and he was mentioning how clean my house was and how it was a nice change to working and not being in complete grossness. He said MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, it's disgusting the houses he goes in......I think the really clean people are in the minority quite honestly.
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We keep clean dog towels on our sofa. That's one place our 4 dogs like to lay on. We change out the towels weekly. When we put new ones down the dogs immediately jump up there and bury their noses in the clean towels. We wash their dog beds in the bedroom once a month and they do the same thing. I really think they like clean bedding too.

There is only room for one or two on the bed with us. We usually have Sammy and Abbey up there. The comforter gets washed every two weeks at the Chinese coin op. The comforter has a fabric on top kind of like cotton twill. We've had it five years and even with all that washing and dogs sleeping on it, it still looks great.

Even though our dogs want to get under the sheets with you they are trained not to. The dogs lay out in the grass in the back yard, etc. We don't want that grit and dirt on our bedsheets. We do have friends who let their dogs sleep under the covers with them, but I think that's going too far.
 
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Depends on the day, but they come off every week, more like 5 or 6 days, and once in a while, 8. I shower ever night before bed, having read long ago that such a practice induces sleep--it does!--and have separate linens for solitary love juice when expressed, LOL.

When Athena stays over, she cries and cries if I don't let her in the bedroom, then in the bed, then right up next to me, and finally under the covers. She is way too irresistible for my so-called doggie discipline. So now, whenever she stays, she showers with me and it's so fun in there with her antics, I nearly choke laughing. God, how I love that little girl !

Should a human stay, he or she is required to sleep in the guest room, with the sheets then boiled, (laughing).

Athena and Paul, (She's prettier in person and PINK).[this post was last edited: 8/28/2013-00:31]

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I'm single and I wash my sheets AT LEAST every two weeks in the winter, and usually every week in the summer. Sometimes more if they start getting a whiff to them (Yes, it has happened in less than a week), Always in HOT water, with plenty of good detergent, and bleach on white sheets. I have a couple friends that don't wash their sheets nearly enough (one admitted to leaving them on a month, and the other, 6 MONTHS!!!!! How disgusting!
 
I shower every evening...

 

 

<span style="font-size: medium;">change the sheets every week without fail, unless there were some spirited shenanigans, then they get changed immediately afterwards.  There's nothing better than clean, soft, sweet smelling sheets. </span>

 

<span style="font-size: medium;">I have been in some guys bedrooms that had that unmistakable funky gym locker room smell, you know, feet and nether regions. I bet that stench emanated from dirty bed linens.  </span>

 

<span style="font-size: medium;">Men walking around naked in a locker room is to be expected, but really, leaving nail clippings behind and shaving in the steam room is just plain bad manners.  </span>
 
Absolutely nothing sleeps better than pressed sheets...every 3 or 4 days mine are stripped, laundered and pressed. When I was partnered, he loved to get into a freshly changed bed with crisp pressed linens, so I changed them daily. I kind of miss that, not him...lol
 
Once a week here unless some extra-cirricular activity requires them being changed sooner. 
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  They get washed in hot w/ Ariel Oxi Azul, 2 tbsp. STPP, ½cup borax, 1 scoop of Biz or ½cup of vintage Blu White,  and a small dose of fabric softener in the rinse cycle.  Then either out on the clothesline (preferred) or in the dryer.
 
An easy solution to those bed sheets......... got a match? 

 

 

Okay, but in all seriousness, I am single and there is nothing more comfortable than a bed with fresh cleaned sheets! I usually wash mine once a week, sometimes once every two weeks if I am lazy, and I hope that isn't pushing it...
 
I wonder if any of those slobs would enjoy sleeping on the freshly laundered and line dried sheets that I put on my bed this afternoon?  Probably not! 
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Change linens once a week without fail. Wednesdays, my first day off from work, is wash day. Always hang out to dry on the clothesline, rarely use the dryer anymore.

One thing that has always crossed my mind is pillowcases and pillowcase covers. If they go dirty longer than a week, that is an awful lot of oil buildup from a persons face in the pillowcases. Though I can't prove an observation about it, I've always thought that dirty pillowcases aggrevated acne or skin disorders, aside from being just nasty. A person often drools when asleep. Some people have very oily skin or may sweat a lot too. It just feels dirty to me to go longer than 7 days.
 

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