How often should you change your bedsheets?

The once a week folks rule, but some of us have other events that get in the way.
Washing is easy, making the bed is not.
Leave it up to your maid-you do have a maid don't you? They often go my the name
of husband, but they require a lot of supervision.
 
Before I die I would love to learn how to tuck in the cover sheet so tight it is impossible to get in or out of bed in motels & hotels. Also, I would like to know why it is one. Who like that?
 
fmdog44 said:
Before I die I would love to learn how to tuck in the cover sheet so tight it is impossible to get in or out of bed in motels & hotels. Also, I would like to know why it is one. Who like that?
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I have always loathed motel/hotel made beds, because of the snug sheets and multilayered bedding.
 
How-often-should-you-change-your-bedsheets? I suppose it should be determined by the type and amount of activity they have seen! (Avoiding the obvious... do you eat in bed? Do you share your bed with hairy pets? Are you suffering from incontinence? Do you drool?)

Since the only activity my sheets are subjected to is my flipping and flopping, I change the sheets every two weeks, but I change the pillow cases at least once a week.
 
Aunt Marg said:
I can so relates, April! :)

So nice to use, but a pain to fold!
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Folding fitted sheets is a skill that has avoided my best efforts to master it. I gave up and now just do the best I can. Sometimes my best is pretty good, other times it is closer to just shoving them together so they will fit in the cupboard.

I figure that after I die my epitaph probably won't read "She really sucked at folding fitted sheets." If it does, so be it.
 
Butterfly said:
Folding fitted sheets is a skill that has avoided my best efforts to master it. I gave up and now just do the best I can. Sometimes my best is pretty good, other times it is closer to just shoving them together so they will fit in the cupboard.

I figure that after I die my epitaph probably won't read "She really sucked at folding fitted sheets." If it does, so be it.
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Just shove everything into the pillowcase chuck it into the cupboard and close the door!
 
Butterfly said:
Folding fitted sheets is a skill that has avoided my best efforts to master it. I gave up and now just do the best I can. Sometimes my best is pretty good, other times it is closer to just shoving them together so they will fit in the cupboard.

I figure that after I die my epitaph probably won't read "She really sucked at folding fitted sheets." If it does, so be it.
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ROFLMAO!

I learned how to fold fitted sheets in my teens, and two people working together definitely makes the process go much easier, however, the job can be tackled by one, just with a little more fussing around.

When my kids were little, between folding fitted crib sheets and diapers, which was an every-other-day routine, sometimes daily, I could fold-up a fitted sheet in a quick minute, but just the other day I got frustrated... too much on my plate that day I'm guessing, and when I went to start the tucking and folding process, the tucking and folding just wasn't looking to my standards, and not being in the mood to mess around, I pulled the sheets together as best I could and tucked them away in the linen-press.

I chalk-it-up to... some days I fold better than others. :)
 
Nice tight fitted sheets, are so nice to sleep on. You may find this odd, but i sew in additional elastic all the way around, pulls more in under the mattress, so fits tighter, doesn't loosen, feels great. Well, that's my knowledge and two cents worth.
 
MickaC said:
Nice tight fitted sheets, are so nice to sleep on. You may find this odd, but i sew in additional elastic all the way around, pulls more in under the mattress, so fits tighter, doesn't loosen, feels great. Well, that's my knowledge and two cents worth.
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Love it, Micka! :)

I wholeheartedly agree... proper fitted sheets are heavenly! While I don't apply additional elastic to fitted sheets (though I may start now after talking with you)... I do pin the corners of older sheets that have lost their stretch in order to snug them up.

Back in the baby days in our home, I had 3 wiggle-worms that I swore, would go out of their way to mess up their cribs. I could set them down in their freshly made-up cribs, tuck them in, and by morning it would look as though a tornado visited their cribs through the night. To help keep crib sheets more secure and properly in place, I took to diaper-pinning the corners, and boy did that ever work well. One pin applied to each corner kept the sheet taught and in place until crib-changing day.
 
Change sheets about every two to three weeks. Yet another advantage to veganism: You don't get the nasty meat chemistry that comes with being a carnivore. Your sweat doesn't get that locker room odor. Yeah, I don't usually wear deodorant, either. No need. No complaints. If I'm heading out to the symphony, in a suit, I may roll on my milk of magnesia deodorant on the outside of my tee shirt, but that's it. Rarely use it.
 
treeguy64 said:
Change sheets about every two to three weeks. Yet another advantage to veganism: You don't get the nasty meat chemistry that comes with being a carnivore. Your sweat doesn't get that locker room odor. Yeah, I don't usually wear deodorant, either. No need. No complaints. If I'm heading out to the symphony, in a suit, I may roll on my milk of magnesia deodorant on the outside of my tee shirt, but that's it. Rarely use it.
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I never gave it any thought until reading your post, but dear husband and I both have oily skin, and meat makes up a large portion of our diet, and boy, does the oil on our skin ever have an off-odour about it by the end of the day.
 
@Aunt Marg If you don't want to do the elastic sewing all the way around, some just have elastic threaded through the edge, just open a spot, and pull it out and cut off some, tie a knot and stitch up the opening, may have to cut a couple of times till you think it's enough, try out on the mattress after each cut.....If there's only elastic at the corners, would have to do the sewing machine method, zigzag stitch, stretching the elastic as you go.

Don't mean to sound bossy, not everyone is a sewer, just trying to keep instuctions simple.
 
MickaC said:
@Aunt Marg If you don't want to do the elastic sewing all the way around, some just have elastic threaded through the edge, just open a spot, and pull it out and cut off some, tie a knot and stitch up the opening, may have to cut a couple of times till you think it's enough, try out on the mattress after each cut.....If there's only elastic at the corners, would have to do the sewing machine method, zigzag stitch, stretching the elastic as you go.

Don't mean to sound bossy, not everyone is a sewer, just trying to keep instuctions simple.
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Love your idea and way of thinking, Micka! :)

Heck, you don't sound bossy at all, as I greatly appreciate your tip and suggestion!
 

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