How often do you wash your sheets?

I was listening to the radio about things like this and one really shocked me. It said that only 5% of people wash their sheets once a week. I always thought washing your sheets once a month was the cardinal rule? Maybe I'm just really gross :confused: :rofl:
I was never made to be a house wife!

Just curious, and I love polls :D


They also said that 1% of people never clean their toilets :puke:

Once a week :gj: It feels so good to sleep on nice clean sheets!!!

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Originally Posted by Boanerges

Once a week :gj: It feels so good to sleep on nice clean sheets!!!

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I will agree that it would be awesome to have fresh sheets every week. I might have to consider this......

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Originally Posted by Boanerges

Once a week :gj: It feels so good to sleep on nice clean sheets!!!

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X2! :gj:

I try to make sure my sheets pillow cases and comforter are all washed about every other week, sometimes I have to do it more often cause we have 6 cats and 4 of them sleep in bed with us EVERY night!!!!

My sheets are washed every Sunday - something about starting my week with a fresh set of sheets is appealing to me. Can't do it Saturday, has to be Sunday! LOL

The comforter gets done about every six weeks, due to pet hair, but since I got the furminator, the shedding is almost non-existent.

Man looks like BPnet has some clean beds! Lol, I guess I was totally out of the loop on this one!

:rofl: I'm just so happy someone chose the option "I don't know, my mom washes them"

I wash them once a week. Comforter and all

Man you guys have too much time on your hands :rofl:

Every spring and most winters.

I wash them at about the time it would give a forensics team a heart attack.... ;)

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Originally Posted by wilomn

Every spring and most winters.

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Originally Posted by Mike@OutbackReptiles

I wash them at about the time it would give a forensics team a heart attack.... ;)

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:rofl: Those are some better answers! Phew!

Lol the forensics team would probably be pretty grossed out about mine too! Man I'm glad we don't have any black lights, I don't even want to see what I sleep in :rofl:

I figure when I CAN see what i sleep in, it's about time for a wash!

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Originally Posted by Mike@OutbackReptiles

I figure when I CAN see what i sleep in, it's about time for a wash!

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:8: That's probably a good measure!

Is it bad if I live on my own in an apartment and my parents visit maybe 3 times a year and I still put "I don't know my mom washes them?"

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Originally Posted by wilomn

every spring and most winters.

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hahahahaha

Honestly, I don't wash them very often, less than once a mth, when they start seeming dirty. I shower before bed, so they don't exactly get dirty all too fast. My main consideration is dust, since I am allergic, but that's why you make your bed. (yea like that happens..) :P

Every other laundry day so about once a month. I tend to actually sleep at home that night so I'm home 5 days instead of 4 that week.

I almost never wash mine. Half the time I dont even have any on my bed. I don't sleep in my bed because of my back I knock out in my computer chair.

i dont have sheets. i sleep hanging upside down hanging from the closet rod:rolleye2:

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Originally Posted by nixer

i dont have sheets. i sleep hanging upside down hanging from the closet rod:rolleye2:

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I KNEW IT!! :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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on an unrelated note: If there is a romantic interest in my life, sheets are always kept fresh and clean, as with the rest of my apartment. :sleep::date:

When the apartment I lived in had a washer and dryer I washed them every 10 days.

Now that I only have a washer and have to take my things to a laundromat to dry them I wash the sheets about once a month.

This thread really makes me miss my dryer.:(

This may be too much info but I saw on dirty jobs that a mattress can gain up to 20lbs due to skin and dirt over it's life span. I'll bet that is determined by how often sheets are washed. Just food for thought. LOL

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Originally Posted by tonkatoyman

This may be too much info but I saw on dirty jobs that a mattress can gain up to 20lbs due to skin and dirt over it's life span. I'll bet that is determined by how often sheets are washed. Just food for thought. LOL

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Ewww. Thanks for that.

I've had the same mattress for YEARS and have been meaning to get a new one. Now I think I have enough motivation.

We do laundry 2-3 times a day and sheets are included maybe once a week. Comforters maybe a few times a year.

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Originally Posted by tonkatoyman

This may be too much info but I saw on dirty jobs that a mattress can gain up to 20lbs due to skin and dirt over it's life span. I'll bet that is determined by how often sheets are washed. Just food for thought. LOL

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I have a dustmite/bedbug cover (allergic to dust), nothing is getting through that! :D But yea, isn't that kinda gross? :rofl: Reasons to shower BEFORE bed!! :gj:

I would clean my sheets more if it wasn't 4 dollars each time. Call me cheap, but I am a broke full-time student, and I'll be going to med-school....that's a LOT of money in loans already, I don't work (good grades = more money off than id make working) soooo laundry money would be in a loan...and that is pretty weak. I'll stick to my schedule. It's not like I wash em to get that "just washed smell" since I use scent free products because the smelly stuff makes my skin burn.

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Originally Posted by wilomn

Every spring and most winters.

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:8::gj:

[QUOTE=HypoPita;1182782]I have a dustmite/bedbug cover (allergic to dust), nothing is getting through that! :D But yea, isn't that kinda gross? :rofl: Reasons to shower BEFORE bed!! :gj:QUOTE]

.............. I still don't get why in the heck people think that showering before bed is a good idea. All your doing is getting yourself wet, which will be transferred to the bed (because even after you're dry you're never truely dry right after the shower), allowing bacteria to grow more readily. Then you spend your next day walking around in the sweat, dead skin, etc that you produced and kept against you all night.

And once again I have pointed out why I shower in the morning, not before bed. Who really cares if your dirty when you get in bed, you're going to be rolling around with all kinds of life forms, and probably going to be inhaling dust mite feces and carcasses no matter what you do, I'd rather be clean the next day when I am going out into the world to greet other people.

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Originally Posted by HypoPita

I have a dustmite/bedbug cover (allergic to dust), nothing is getting through that! :D But yea, isn't that kinda gross? :rofl: Reasons to shower BEFORE bed!! :gj:QUOTE]

.............. I still don't get why in the heck people think that showering before bed is a good idea. All your doing is getting yourself wet, which will be transferred to the bed (because even after you're dry you're never truely dry right after the shower), allowing bacteria to grow more readily. Then you spend your next day walking around in the sweat, dead skin, etc that you produced and kept against you all night.

And once again I have pointed out why I shower in the morning, not before bed. Who really cares if your dirty when you get in bed, you're going to be rolling around with all kinds of life forms, and probably going to be inhaling dust mite feces and carcasses no matter what you do, I'd rather be clean the next day when I am going out into the world to greet other people.

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Very true, but, I also exercise daily, and normally later at night. I don't jump straight into bed either. I relax for a while. Don't sweat when I sleep, I like being cold (I know thats not the case for alot of people). I also have a mohawk..which has hair products in it..and it needs to be washed out..dont feel like my hair falling/gettingpulled out and smearing product all over my bed. Tend to shower in the morning too, just as a good pick me up.

Regardless, we are always walking around covered in crap, bacteria, dead things, dust, ect. We have strep and staph in our own mouths. Ya gotta shower at SOME point. I think when you shower is kind of a mute point. You'll always prespire, always shed dead skin, and all the other things. However, it's a good idea to get sweat from exercise off you, for your own sake, and if you do so before bed, you save your sheets of some of your odor.

The purpose of showering in the morning is more for the benefit of other people as it keeps you less smelly through the day :P Same with after exercising.

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Originally Posted by Oxylepy

The purpose of showering in the morning is more for the benefit of other people as it keeps you less smelly through the day :P Same with after exercising.

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:rofl: touche

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Originally Posted by AndrewGeibel

Is it bad if I live on my own in an apartment and my parents visit maybe 3 times a year and I still put "I don't know my mom washes them?"

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:8: That is bad!!!! :rofl:

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Originally Posted by TMoore

When the apartment I lived in had a washer and dryer I washed them every 10 days.

Now that I only have a washer and have to take my things to a laundromat to dry them I wash the sheets about once a month.

This thread really makes me miss my dryer.:(

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I know you feel! I was SOOOO happy when we bought our house and could actually wash our laundry! I HATE laundromats!

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Originally Posted by tonkatoyman

This may be too much info but I saw on dirty jobs that a mattress can gain up to 20lbs due to skin and dirt over it's life span. I'll bet that is determined by how often sheets are washed. Just food for thought. LOL

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Ewww that is pretty sick :puke:

I have heard that 80% of dusk is human skin :puke:

I live at an apartment and we have laundry facilities but its 1.25 to dry and 1.50 to wash so I wash my sheets maybe every 2 months? I shower before bed too because I'm not waking up with enough time to do it in the morning and I guarantee you with as cold as I keep my room I dont sweat at night. However, theres already enough junk floating around you get covered in stuff right after you shower anyway.

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Originally Posted by MsPrada

I live at an apartment and we have laundry facilities but its 1.25 to dry and 1.50 to wash so I wash my sheets maybe every 2 months?

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..................... It costs me 5 dollars to wash my sheets. Thats just the sheets and pillow case... thats all.... Thats half the cost of typical laundry for me and means I have to get another roll of quarters... Come on man.

For YEARS I was a laundry mat rat - every week, without fail, I was at the laundry mat (up to as recently as 5 years ago). I still washed my sheets every single week. And if I couldn't wash them, I have 4 other sets of sheets that I can at least change them on a weekly basis.

Then a neighbor moved out a few years ago, and didn't want to take her washer and dryer (a year old at the time) with her, and sold the pair to me for $100. I am soooo glad that I'm not fighting people for dryers any longer.

When I was growing up my mom used to use flat sheets for both the bottom and the top. Then she would take the bottom sheet off after a week to wash. The top sheet then went on the bottom and the new clean sheet went on as the new top sheet. She told us only the bottom sheets really get dirty. I hadn't remembered that until this pole!

Well if I had the money I'd wash my sheets a little more, but being a full time student and only working 10 hours a week doesn't get you too far.

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Originally Posted by rabernet

For YEARS I was a laundry mat rat - every week, without fail, I was at the laundry mat (up to as recently as 5 years ago). I still washed my sheets every single week. And if I couldn't wash them, I have 4 other sets of sheets that I can at least change them on a weekly basis.

Then a neighbor moved out a few years ago, and didn't want to take her washer and dryer (a year old at the time) with her, and sold the pair to me for $100. I am soooo glad that I'm not fighting people for dryers any longer.

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when i had my apartment i would take up every dryer in the joint, but then again i had so much clothes that i can wash clothes once a month

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Originally Posted by MsPrada

Well if I had the money I'd wash my sheets a little more, but being a full time student and only working 10 hours a week doesn't get you too far.

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I feel ya! Although I work a bit more than that, it's sooooo expensive to wash your clothes if you don't own a washer or dryer.

We bought a washer dryer set about 2 years ago and I figured it up that the washer and dryer paid for themselves after I went through TWO laundry soap bottles. Well worth it! Our laundromat was EXPENSIVE $5 wash and dry per load. Our water bill is only $20 a month and it's an energy star so I'm sure it doesn't cost much to run it. Thank god for living in a small town! I love our city bill, the highest it's ever been was $40!

Well....it all depends what Big Gunns has been doing in those sheets.;)

Hey, I'm 13, and even though I know how to do laundry, my mom still washes my sheets and bed spread.

Though, I never sleep with sheets. I always sleep with a comforter over me because it's a lot more comfortable to me. If I have sheets on the bed, I just sleep on top of them.

I'm trying to remember the last time I did laundry.