Are you really meant to wash your bed sheets weekly or is someone pulling my leg?

Question

Someone just told me that she washes her bed sheets weekly. I do mine when they start sticking to my back. Which is about every four months or so. Surely she's pulling my leg. The cost of washing powder must be terrible.

Well, how often are you meant to wash a bath towel? That must be clean because you put water on it everytime you get out of the shower.

Answer 1

Every 4 months? yuck! Think of it this way. Do you wear the same PJ's or pants for 4 months without washing them (now I'm hoping that you don't. lol)? You spend hours in bed sweating and doing other stuff! Consider washing them much more frequently!

Answer 2

Well, would you wear the same article of clothing everyday for a month? No! So why would you not want your bed linens just as clean? Yes, once a week is normal for bed linens. That's how I do it. It's just good hygiene and sanitary. The sheets are filled with your body oils, dead skin cells, and whatever else. There are bed bugs to consider and dust mites as well. Why would you not want a clean bed? To each his own, but I prefer to be clean and sleep in a clean bed!

As for your comment on the bath towel, I would have to say use it twice...then get a new one. You may be clean when you step out of the shower, but you are depositing dead skin cells when you dry off. I myself only use it twice for that reason and sometimes that is once too many. No, I'm not a clean freak...just clean!

Answer 3

I clean my sheets weekly to ever other week depending on what was going on that week. Bath towels are washed once a week also. The cost of a load of laundry for liquid runs me about .09 cents to .12 cents - I do not put fabric softener into my towels (because your towels will not absorb water well with fabric softener in them).

Answer 4

Did you know the average person emits a pint of sweat each night in bed? If you are happy to wear underpants and socks for five or six days in a row then wash you sheets fortnightly or less, otherwise every week should be the minimum at least! People who suffer from skin conditions should do so at least twice a week.

Answer 5

I really hope you're joking. 4 months is pretty disgusting. Would you wear the same clothes or use the same bath towel for that long?

I wash mine every 1 or 2 weeks.

Answer 6

Oprah had one of her shows on that exact subject. She said she washes her sheets every three days. She got those experts that took the sheets and pillow cases of several peoples beds, after just the first time we sleep on them the skin flake and all the exam through the microscope showed all sorts of things running around on them they come to eat the skin flakes , dandruff and what ever. So it's what ever you don't mind sleeping with as to how long you wait to have clean sheets.

Answer 7

Providing that you bathe before you go to bed every night, you should be able to go for about two weeks before you have to change the sheets. But waiting for them to stick to your back is much more extreme than washing weekly, I think.

It's really quite hilarious how you said that.

Detergent isn't that expensive to delay it for more than three weeks. Thanks for the laugh!

Answer 8

I wash my sheets weekly, pillow cases are about every 3 days. I also do towels daily.

My great aunt told me once I was vulgarly clean. I thought it a great compliment.

Answer 9

Weekly

Answer 10

That depends on how much bed activity you do every day!

Washing them weekly is a lot of washing powder and not to mention, plenty of litres of water!

Once a month should be fine.