Is this really gross? Please someone else have my problem

sep24/05bride

I know I should save this for FFFC, but I haven't washed our bed sheets for about 3 months!  My sons crib sheet hasn't been changed in at least a month.  I have such a hard time keeping up with the daily laundry that my sheets and towels get neglected.  

I am so embarassed because the rest of my house and life is in good order.  Anyone have tips on how to keep up with the laundry?  

KittyCatBio

Get two very large very sheddy dogs.  then you have to wash the bedding every 3-4 days b/c they jump up on it and get it all hairy, and hair you cannot ignore.

DelGrecoBride

i dont mean to be rude....but three months? thats disgusting.

fIowerchild

Since you asked....yes, that's pretty gross. Do you work?  If not, you could throw them in the wash right now while you're on the Bump.

mabst196

DelGrecoBride:

i dont mean to be rude....but three months? thats disgusting.

I agree. I make sure to change DDs once a week and at the very longest our bedsheets might go two weeks if I am feeling lazy. Blech.

Judah'sMommy

DelGrecoBride:

i dont mean to be rude....but three months? thats disgusting.

You don't mean to be rude, and then call her disgusting? 

OP, I have gone 3 months without changing my sheets.  It's gross but it happens.

fiona21408

Yes it sure is gross.. I would just mark it on the calendar and no matter what at least every other week...

Gina418

Mark your calendar for every Monday - change sheets/towels. Assuming you have more than 1 set of sheets/towels, tt least change them - you can wash them whenever, but at least change them.

megpeg

My DH does the laundry because he is picky about it and I don't have time.  I have no idea how often our sheets are cleaned.

sep24/05bride

OK it is gross!  Any suggestions on how to get my laundry in order?

DelGrecoBride

Judah'sMommy:

DelGrecoBride:

i dont mean to be rude....but three months? thats disgusting.

You don't mean to be rude, and then call her disgusting? 

OP, I have gone 3 months without changing my sheets.  It's gross but it happens.

yep its a fact. its disgusting. i didn't call HER disgusting. I called the fact the she hasnt changed sheets disgusting. Come on Judah

gbtc01

I am in the same boat. The rest of the house is fine but laundry gets done on an as needed basis and the sheets are usually the last to be changed. The longest I have gone is 2 months.

I have found it helps to have 3 sets. That way one is bound to be clean and one on its way to the wash. I put the new ones on almost right away after taking off the old ones. That really is the only way they get put on that day. We have been known to sleep on a flat sheet for a day or two before I get back around to it otherwise.

I don't flame you, not one bit. I totally understand.

DD's sheets have been changed maybe 5 or 6 times total. She isn't a messy baby and has (knocks on wood) never leaked or spit up in her crib.

Nicole731

Do you have extra sets of sheets? If not, you should try that. That way you really don't have an excuse to have dirty sheets. Change them to clean ones, and stick the dirty ones in immediately.

Also, I find that sometimes I remember I need to change the sheets, but try to put it off until later/next day/whenever. So now as soon as I remember I go ahead and take the sheets off the bed so that I am forced to switch them out before laying down. This works especially well with DS sheets, because crib sheets are such a PITA to change.

DelGrecoBride

sep24/05bride:

OK it is gross!  Any suggestions on how to get my laundry in order?

if you are at home...put them in now. Do you have extra sets for your bed? That helps a lot.

*SheHasMyHeart*

Wow I don't think that it is absolutely horrible that you have went that long, but I would def get them washed.  I wash ours eve.ry 2 weeks.  Do what I do: we have a couple pairs of spare sheets in our closet.  Even if I don't have time to wash our sheets I will take them off and put the spares on.  Then I have 2 weeks to find time to wash the sheets.  That way we have clean sheets but I don't have to wash them right away.  Get into a routine of doing it and it will be alot easier to remember to do it.

*KatieH*

The best routine for me is to strip the bed in the morning while I am getting dressed, throw sheets in washer while I am getting ready (hair and makeup) then put in dryer before I go to school/work.  

KatieTheMagnificent

Pick *a* day and stick to it.  I hate changing sheets, I hate doing laundry.  I'm horrible about keeping up with it, but having a day set aside to do nothing BUT laundry works for me.  It's the first thing I do that day: get up, pee, and take a load down to the basement to wash.  I try to separate as we use clothing, too - I think I have way too many laundry baskets, but it helps me get my shiit together. 

PD's_Momma

have really hot sweaty sex at least once a week that involves things like whipped cream & chocolate sauce.

 

boo-bitz

sep24/05bride:

I know I should save this for FFFC, but I haven't washed our bed sheets for about 3 months!  My sons crib sheet hasn't been changed in at least a month.  I have such a hard time keeping up with the daily laundry that my sheets and towels get neglected.  

I am so embarassed because the rest of my house and life is in good order.  Anyone have tips on how to keep up with the laundry?  

I would say have an extra set or two on hand for both you and DS. We have 4 crib sheets for Madi and 2 warm blankies for when it is chilly in her room. For ourselves right now we have 2 full sets and a comforter/duvet that we try and dryel at least 2 times a month.

Also another suggestion is to mark down towel/sheet day (say a Sunday when you are going to be home anyway) and alternate every week between you and DH.

And you also get a hug for haveing a toddler, being 22 weeks pg, and being honest enough to admit you are not wonder woman!

cess525

We do laundry on 1 day.  It works out to always be Saturday for us.  I wake up in the morning of laundry day and strip the bed.  Once you take the sheets off you have to wash them becuase noone wants to put dirty sheets back on the bed.  Once I have my sheets its a might as well get DD's sheets. thus the ball is rolling. 

As for 3 months...reminds me of DH and his roomie in college.  Neither of them knew you had to wash sheets and both said "We shower before bed so we are clean".  They hated it that I burst their bubble on that one

ManciniMom

I once went 3 months without washing our sheets when DS was first born and I couldn't keep up with the house but in our defense DH and I both shower at night and in the morning (habit) so really how dirty could sheets get and trust me there was no action going on in that bed LOL

samfish2bcrab

Do you have any idea how much dead skin gets sloughed off on bedsheets?   Ick.  

 I love the smell of freshly laundered sheets, so it gets done once a week.

mabst196

gbtc01:

I am in the same boat. The rest of the house is fine but laundry gets done on an as needed basis and the sheets are usually the last to be changed.

DD's sheets have been changed maybe 5 or 6 times total. She isn't a messy baby and has (knocks on wood) never leaked or spit up in her crib.

Sorry, but I am shuddering thinking about the amount of dust mites on those sheets with your DD.

sep24/05bride

Okay I think I see one problem.  I only have one set.

mlf625

Don't you have sex? ?Doesn't that include some ... uh ... leakage? ?You've been sleeping on that for 3 months? ?::gag::?

mabst196

sep24/05bride:

Okay I think I see one problem.  I only have one set.

Yup, I I like to have three sets just in case. So I am gauranteed to have at least one set clean if I need them.

sep24/05bride

mlf....saddly no too often and never leakage!  I guess we are clean at that!

6fsn

I get up every Saturday morning and strip the beds.  That's the first load of laundry every week unless we are out of town.

Amrice78

mlf625:

Don't you have sex?  Doesn't that include some ... uh ... leakage?  You've been sleeping on that for 3 months?  ::gag:: 

lol. we are very careful about leakage.  I don't know why, but we've always been this way.

citygirl_

Change them asap and buy another set or 2 at Target or Ross or something!  I change ours at LEAST once a week... I start to freak out by day 5 or 6 of not changing them.

nybride0705

sep24/05bride:

Okay I think I see one problem.  I only have one set.

Please tell me you are joking. Having one set is not an excuse to wash them.  The whole procedure takes 1 - 1.5 hour, you can live without them.

Mrs.tlcS

I have three sets of sheets for every bed in the house - except the crib... we have like 8000 sheets for that somehow, lol.  That helps.

Also, having a laundry schedule helps.  I do darks and diapers on Mondays, brights on Tuesday, diapers on Wednesday, whites on Thursday, sheets and towels on Friday.  Or sometimes I skip Friday, but there are always new sheets on the bed every Friday.  I just strip the bed when I get up, and then new sheets go on that evening, whether I wash or don't that day.

 

mlc92404

get a second, inexpensive, set of sheets so you have something to put on right away when you take yours off to wash?

make a set day for just towels and sheets (in our house this is 1 maybe 2 loads)

 

brandonsfuturewife07

Judah'sMommy:

DelGrecoBride:

i dont mean to be rude....but three months? thats disgusting.

You don't mean to be rude, and then call her disgusting? 

OP, I have gone 3 months without changing my sheets.  It's gross but it happens.

ditto.

mrsfitz35

Every 2 weeks max. I do a load of laundry every night when I get home from work. With a self-feeding toddler, we go through a lot. I wash sheets at least every other Saturday. Every saturday if she is teething and drooling a lot.

Do you SAH? If so, pick a day of the week (Wed, whatever) and make that laundry day. Do everything in one day. If it doesn't all get folded and put away, fine but at least everything would be washed.

true_norskie

The best thing about sheets is that you don't have to fold them!  You just have to wash and dry in the same day.  That is the best type of laundry!  Your time commitment is only the time it takes to strip the sheets, put them in the washer, transfer them to the dryer and making the bed.

DH helps with that--he actually does sheets for that reason.  (they are so easy)  And he does not TOUCH any of the other laundry.

fIowerchild

Do it now! Just imagine how niiiiiiiiiice it will be to get in your bed tonight.  *sigh* (imagining getting into soft, clean sheets)

momtoRaegan041008

Don't feel bad, I keep up on the laundry with my husbands help, but as far as the house cleaning goes...well that's another story.  I always have good intentions but them my duaghter gets fussy or we have to go somewhere and it never gets done.  It's tidy, but as far as cleaning goes, I lack in that department.

Tess12

I have a clean sheet fetish.  I have changed the sheets at 11pm when I've been agitated, just to get that clean sheet feel.  flowerchild is right--it will feel really good.

lpennie16

PD's_Momma:

have really hot sweaty sex at least once a week that involves things like whipped cream & chocolate sauce.

 

lol

Good for a marriage too!

jillybean222

Just pick a day.  I do mine every week on Saturdays.  I have an emergency backup set in case soemthing happens, but I really like my favorite sheets so I wash, dry ,a nd put them back on my bed in a matter of hours.  Laundry is easier than regular household chores...you put it in and walk away...if only my floors could wash themselvs while I am out with the kids!