Okay another weird question. How often do
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Topic: Okay another weird question. How often do
Posted By: SMoody
Subject: Okay another weird question. How often do
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 10:39am
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you change the sheets on your bed?
Had this question on another forum and it actually made me think of how often I change it. So just wondering if I am really that way out.  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 11:16am
| weekly to fortnightly depending on whats been going on....Taine is fortnightly as he rarely sleeps IN his bed, usually on top. what did other people say? |
Posted By: Bumble
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 11:21am
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Ethan - every couple of days...
Us - weekly or more depending on what we have been doing.... 
I just love the feeling of fresh sheets!!! ------------- formerly known as "Bee" Ethan ~ March 2003 Big 6 year old school boy! Micah ~ Aug 2008 ~ Smiley pants who loves telephones! |
Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 11:26am
Err.. umm.. 
If they are dirty?
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 11:39am
Yup, me too Can't remember when I last changed ours...
I change the gremlins sheets once a fortnight but the muslin under their heads that they dribble/drool/spew on every couple of days, and Maya's sheets once a fortnight too (if I remember) -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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meow wrote:Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 11:57am
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Okay dont get shocked. But the majority was every second day and the longest (except me) was a week.
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Posted By: AlyAyde
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 12:01pm
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I change ours weekly. Unless one of the kids has an accident. ------------- Jayde 25/12/04 Alyssa 08/04/03 http://Alyayde.bebo.com |
Posted By: mamanee
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 12:02pm
Once a week sometimes, then sometimes once a fortnight. Not much going on in my bed at the moment, so usually fornightly.. 
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 12:03pm
every second day???? are these people nuts? Who has that kind of time.....oh god, maybe I'm a slob!! I aim for weekly but sometimes it goes fortnightly and then I feel really gross. |
Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 12:07pm
Now you see why I was so shocked? I started thinking I am totally abnormal here.  ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Bubbaloo
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 12:17pm
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Wow every second day what are they on!!
I change ours every week. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  Was danni-chick Mum to James My Angel 28/07/08 |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 12:35pm
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Ours get changed fortnightly and it's only that regular because I now have paid help to do it! I prefer the girls' beds changed once a week (nappies at night) but don't always get around to doing the second week (by myself). ------------- |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 12:35pm
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I change our sheets every week. Same as Tyrell every week, I have to do 2 sets for him...home and day care. How do people manage to do it more than once a week....I was a bit worried that I was abnormal. 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 12:43pm
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Shirena I notice you haven't let us know how often yours get changed... wanna let us know? ------------- |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 1:05pm
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lol, i am for fortnightly but usually ends up being monthly-ish to be totally honest.. granted, the kids only sleep in their beds at nights, not during day etc as they are at daycare.. but pillowcases etc get changed more, and ayja's sheets get changed more too cos she sometimes wet's thru. but every second day.. wholly crap. that's a whole lotta time and washing!!
I mean come on, if you're showering before bed/bathing kids before bed.. and changing jammies pretty much every second day.. how dirty can your bed get (ok i know all the dustmite theories but hey) ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 1:08pm
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I think I might have to take the fifth on this one.
I suppose all you guys answered. Okay if we are lucky I change it every second week. But mostly every third week or so or when I feel they feel ick or something. We dont eat in bed. McKayla is mostly dry at night so it stays clean. Plus we shower ect at night. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 1:10pm
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I would like to say fortnightly for our bed but its probably more like every 3 or 4 weeks. I always have good intentions of changing them but I get distracted and forget and DH just doesn't think to do it.
Every 2nd day is mad!! Our neighbours seem to have sheets on the line once or twice a week which I think is nuts. Their washing machine seems to be on constantly lol.. surely they have better things to do with their lives than washing.. or maybe they don't
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 1:17pm
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Phew, glad to hear I'm not the only one on this!! I try for every 1-2 weeks, but usually ends up more like 3ish weeks I just forget and I make the bed as soon as I get up, so once its made its forgotten about.
Every 2 days!  Shirena, I think THEY not you are the abnormal ones.------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 1:30pm
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Have any of you noticed that once you have a male in your bed you have to change the sheets more? And no, not for the "obvious" reasons. Men are just....grottier. Must be those "man things" that eomachine hinted at in the towels thread
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 1:37pm
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OMG im off to change ours now...
do the people changin g them every 2nd day have maids or something???? thinking of sth africa! |
Posted By: nictoddie
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 1:50pm
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Glad I'm not a slob either then ours are usually once a week to fortnightly depends how much I feel like stripping beds etc, but ooohhhhh I do love jumping into a nice fresh bed ------------- 
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Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 2:07pm
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fornightly usually... has been known to roll into the third week...or fourth (not often though) sometimes, I do it after a week. not often though, depends on how hot it has been. Jake? the same. He has his day sleep on top of the bed. Charlotte? weekly, she is a drooling tummy sleeper, so they get grotty. I short sheet her anyhow. Wow, the people who say they do it every cpl of days are either liars or bored! ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 2:33pm
| the only time I ever changed our sheets every 2nd day was when we lived in Japan and at night it was over 90% humidity and we sweated like pigs - don't be dirty!!! thats sweating while sleeping. so so so ick! and the sheets would literally be wet in the morning. i would air them on day one and then changeon day two. drove me nuts though. don't know why anyone would do that voluntarily....UNLESS one weird person said 2 days and no-one else wante d to be thouight of as the "dirty girl"...so all said "oh yes me too" but5 secertly thought "every 2 weeks maybe" thats my theory anyway |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 2:42pm
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Thats us as well ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 2:45pm
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Nope. These days not many people have domestic workers in SA. Some have but even the ones that dont have and is SAHM do this. All I can say is I am a little messy piggy. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Bel
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 3:28pm
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Ha when I first saw this post I was thinking I was going to be put to shame (people change their towels alot more often!)... But I change ours about every fortnight. I do love the feeling of new sheets tho! ------------- Mum to two beautiful kids
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Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 4:21pm
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Nothing like "New sheet Bed" but in saying that I absolutely hate washing sheets, it always rains when I put them out on the line and I give up..so when the mood strikes me I'd say every 3 wks for us, and the kids are prolly every 2 wks, if it doesn't rain. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 4:57pm
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Yay - Dh and I kept thinking we were lazy and disgusting, but we are normal! Anywhere from 2 weeks to 3 weeks I would say, with the odd sooner and later.
How many sheet sets would you have to have to change every 2 days? Heaps! Not to mention using a dryer or something to get them dry, we wouldn't have enough room in our limited linen closet to keep them all! -------------  
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Posted By: BabyOnBoard
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 6:52pm
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Lol I have DF trained to change them, usually on my command but every week or fornight (usually after I've shaved my legs) ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 6:59pm
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I was a lot more efficient with Maya's cot - I only had one of her and she was in daycare which gave me time to change the sheets. But the safety sleeps take ages to get right on the cots, so with two to change it takes me half an hour to strip and change them both so it's a real performance. Oh and I am lazier. Second baby thing. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 8:48pm
Oh lord, am I hearing ya on that!! Am glad I'm not the only one thats not doing it weekly all the time, I was secretly worried I was a filthy pig. ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 8:50pm
You took the words right out of my mouth Annie! So glad you are all like me ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: MyMinis
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 8:59pm
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before I got pregnant every 3rd day, but our beds so big I can barely change it so DF does once a week now for me.
Haleighs once a week, when she was little it was every 3rd day I'd do it with ours and air out her mattress at the same time. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Mazzy
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 9:03pm
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I change our sheets and DD's sheets once a week. There is nothing like Clean Sheet Day!
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Posted By: hailstones
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 9:17pm
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I change ours probably somewhere in between every week and fortnightly, then I have to have a shower and shave my legs - nothing like that smooth leg feeling on clean sheets. But I do admit when I was pregnant it was probably more like once every 3 or 4 weeks as I couldn't be bothered moving my tubby tummy round the bed
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Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 10:14pm
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This thread reminded me of a neighbour in my dorm at uni -- she hardly EVER changed her sheets, and her reasoning was that she takes a shower at night, so she's clean when she gets into bed, so therefore, the sheets weren't getting dirty. (She used this same logic for her towels as well -- she was clean when she got out of the shower, so her towels weren't getting dirty either, apparently.) |