Laundry question...

[fajrdrako]

How often do you wash your bed sheets?

I read somewhere that anyone with allergy problems should wash their sheets at least once per week. Since I broke my elbow, stripping the bed has been difficult, and making the bed even more so, so I want to do it as little as possible. Before then, I washed the sheets every Friday. Theoretically.

I don't use blankets, but a duvet, and I wash the duvet cover when I wash the sheet and pillowcases - about once per month. Assuming no soiling, spills, or stains, assuming no specific need to do it more often, what is a good average? I don't want to be a slob, but I don't want to be over-particular, either.

In the laundry room today I was chatting with a neighbour and asked him how often he washed his sheets. "Not as often as we probably should," he answered, which I expected, but then he said, "We wash our sheets about once a week. We used to do it every day, when we had a washer in our apartment."

Every day. Boy, does that make my housekeeping look bad.

On a Google search, I found this advice site, which seems to say that once a week or once a month are both pretty much all right, except in cases of bad allergies.

Answers.com says wash them every one to two weeks, period, and once a month is not enough.

Fynadvice says every two to three weeks.

Advice?

Comments

[cleverthylacine]

uh...not nearly enough, apparently.

I have a lot of clothes and do not always have the spoons to do laundry every week--I don't have a washer and dryer nor do we have one in the building, so to do laundry I need to schlep it all into a cart, get the cart downstairs, walk to the laundromat, do the laundry, fold and stack it all in the cart, push the cart home, get the cart up the stairs and put it away.

[fajrdrako]

Ugh - what a job that is. I used to do that when I lived in London. I'm now lucky enough to have washers and dryers in the building, and it's still a pain to carry it all down to the basement and back, but at least I don't have to go out on a snowy or rainy day. I don't think I'd do laundry from November to April.