• RBWells@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Weekly for both. We live in the tropics, love sex so wash sheets often; shower daily but use same towel all week.

  • Wahots@pawb.social
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    Towels one week. Bedding and pillow cases every two weeks. Pillows every 3 to 6 months, or if they start to smell kinda musty, whichever comes first. A little bleach helps keeps my bedding and towels super clean.

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      5 days ago

      Almost exactly the same except for pillow. Within the past year I switched to a buckwheat pillow and I am in trial phase to see how it handles use.

      I think I’m going to empty the buckwheat hulls out soon to wash the case and then replace the hulls. IDK, I’m just guessing at the point.

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    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.

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    6 days ago

    I just do it when I do laundry which is when I run out of shirts for work.

    Somewhere between 2 and 6 weeks.

  • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
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    I use a towel once before i wash it. I dry my bootyhole with it im not gonna reuse that and rub it on my face no matter how thoroughly ive scrubbed it. All you need is 7 cheap towels and do laundry once a week.

    Bedding depends, but on average like every 2-3 weeks.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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    6 days ago

    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.

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    Assuming im not in the midst of creating a depression fort out of garbage and laundry its 1-2 weeks for bedding and towels are roughly every week. Look like I’m average itt at least. So one less thing to feel bad about yay!

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      5 days ago

      I momentarily misread that as “depression fart” and was expecting a different reason for changing sheets.

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    6 days ago

    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.

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      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).

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        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 😅