People in this thread, unironically:
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.
I like you.
Let’s go somewhere, fall, and forget to hit the ground together.
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I momentarily misread that as “depression fart” and was expecting a different reason for changing sheets.
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.
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 don’t dry very well on the towel rack. But don’t worry. We don’t use stinky towels. They get thrown on 90°C washing immediately 😅
Maybe they’ve been developing immunity…
Weekly, both. Mostly
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.
New towel every shower. Bed sheets about every other week
When I can smell them.
I’d also be interesting in knowing if people have in-unit laundry. Being in an apartment complex where there’s 3 washers for around 50 people, it’s 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 it’s 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 there’s a smell or stain.
Towels - 3 days Sheets - every week
I just do it when I do laundry which is when I run out of shirts for work.
Somewhere between 2 and 6 weeks.
