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Why would I change either?
I mean, I'm a hoopy frood, So I know where my towel is, and it's full of all kinds of nutrients due to the competing microbes that compose its flora. You don't just waste that kind of ecosystem by changing towels every decade.
And sheets? What about the memories? Every stain is a mark of something wonderful that happened. Except the ones that are marks of something horrific that happened. Or the ones that are just spilled beverages. But, you know, that's still plenty of good memories you want washed down the drain, you animal you.
Best be careful when changing sheets anyway. It'd be a shame if your mattress wasn't properly killed before being shipped from Sqornshellous Zeta and it went on a flollop rampage after being exposed to too much sunlight.
am I having a stroke
I guess you don't know where your towel is.
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I like you.
Let's go somewhere, fall, and forget to hit the ground together.
bath towels: weekly
bedding: every 2 or 3 weeks, depending on the season
Reverse this for me. I shower first thing in the morning every day and my bath towels are just drying clean skin. They only touch me for maybe a minute or two before being hung to dry.
However, I go to sleep at night, after a full day of developing natural body oils on my skin. And I lie in bed for 8+ hours at a time.
My bed sheets are far more gross after a week of use than my towel will get in a month, more or less a couple weeks.
Not enough
Assuming im not in the midst of creating a depression fort out of garbage and laundry its 1-2 weeks for bedding and towels are roughly every week. Look like I'm average itt at least. So one less thing to feel bad about yay!
I momentarily misread that as "depression fart" and was expecting a different reason for changing sheets.
We usually change the bedding weekly, I.e. every Sunday and the towels usually as soon as they start to develop this old wet umbrella stench, which takes about 3-4 days.
Oh my god, that smell is mildew. If your towels are kept so humid that they're mildewing the colliform bacteria in your bathroom is having an entire festival on there. Please, before you get a horrible infection, please start swapping them out more frequently. I'm begging you, rubbing that on even a small open wound could be legitimately life threatening (for example if you're the lucky winner of E.Coli roulette, which is also absolutely growing on your towels).
Unfortunately the towels donβt dry very well on the towel rack. But donβt worry. We donβt use stinky towels. They get thrown on 90Β°C washing immediately π
Maybe they've been developing immunity...
Weekly, both. Mostly
Mattress, about five years. Towels, every decade or so.
Just keep the ones you have clean with regular washing, and they don't wear out that fast.
Thank you, seeing all those "weeks", "months" replies are making me feel like a neathandal.
Weekly for both. We live in the tropics, love sex so wash sheets often; shower daily but use same towel all week.
Clean sheets are an aphrodisiac!
Towels and sheets weekly. Comforter and mattress topper alternating weeks.
Once a week.
When I can smell them.
New towel every shower. Bed sheets about every other week
Towels - 3 days Sheets - every week
Iβd also be interesting in knowing if people have in-unit laundry. Being in an apartment complex where thereβs 3 washers for around 50 people, itβs not feasible to wash towels after every use. That also sounds very wasteful!
I shower every other day, and change the towels after a couple of weeks. The schedule is based on when they can get washed (laundry gets done every two weeks for clothes, and so itβs based on the availability of doing extra loads), or at the first sign of a smell or stain.
Bedding gets changed on a monthly basis for the same reasons, again, unless thereβs a smell or stain.
bath towels every couple of showers. I use a separate towel for my head/hair though.
bed sheets, varies, depends on temperature and sweatiness.
I just do it when I do laundry which is when I run out of shirts for work.
Somewhere between 2 and 6 weeks.
Sheets weekly. Towels twice a week, but I shower twice a day.
yes?
no?
sometimes...
Once a week. I hate feeling like the sheets are dirty and rumpled.
I use a towel once before i wash it. I dry my bootyhole with it im not gonna reuse that and rub it on my face no matter how thoroughly ive scrubbed it. All you need is 7 cheap towels and do laundry once a week.
Bedding depends, but on average like every 2-3 weeks.
When they stop feeling clean. Why are you all counting days?
Bath towel, washglove and dishcloth : every sunday.
Bedsheets : every two weeks (weekly during summer when it's really hot).
I live in a very dry region, so I rarely have to worry about mold as long as I let everything dry properly after use (aka, not in a ball). If something start to smell moldy I bath it in baking soda for a day or two then wash it. All clean.
Towels one week. Bedding and pillow cases every two weeks. Pillows every 3 to 6 months, or if they start to smell kinda musty, whichever comes first. A little bleach helps keeps my bedding and towels super clean.
Almost exactly the same except for pillow. Within the past year I switched to a buckwheat pillow and I am in trial phase to see how it handles use.
I think I'm going to empty the buckwheat hulls out soon to wash the case and then replace the hulls. IDK, I'm just guessing at the point.
In summer roughly weekly sometimes less for both. In winter all the bedding but the duvet cover monthly (we wrap the duvet around us like a burrito and thus change it more often). Towel biweekly in winter.
Washcloths are used once then go in the hamper. Towels 3-5 days. Sheets 1-2 times per month (showering at night and wearing pajamas..., plus keeping the house colder at night)
Change to what? Money?