Nrealy 1/3 of People Wash Their Sheets Just Once Per Year!

You can’t flip many mattresses these days. They are one sided. So all you can do is turn them from head to toe and back.

I wear shirts and pants many times without washing them unless I get them very dirty or sweaty. I have old clothes I wear around the house and only wear good clothes out so they stay clean.

Yup. I don’t have many places to store extra sheets. Anyway I like them right out if the washer and dried that day. I don’t like old sheets. Even a week old. They get a funny smell.

Yup. You can wash anything with it. Vinegar is awesome also.

True.

Arguably, having pets sleep with you on the bed is nasty.

Dirt, mud, pet dander and pet hair are such great things to wake up choking on. NOT!

I get to share my bed with carpenter ants at the moment.

Those nasty little buggers are everywhere when spring hits.

If you don't crush the head before you throw them across the room after one craws down the back of your neck, they find their way back in bed with you in five minuets.

Joy! It is what it is.

But I am a single guy who often falls asleep wearing the same clothes I had on that day to bed.

That's so hard to believe. I mean don't the sheets start to smell and get skeevy?

Put ant traps out. Pull the bed away from the wall. Don’t let any bedding drag on the floor. This will stop the ants from crawling into the bed. Also get diatomaceous earth and sprinkle around the legs of the bed where ants would crawl up. They will crawl through the DE which will dry them out and then they die. This works for bedbugs also.

Probably true. As far as food goes, my grandparents and great grandparents did not refrigerate cooked soups, stews, or chilis. They would leave the pot covered on the stove and reheat it nightly until it was gone. I've done the same and never been ill from it.

Plenty of other stuff was routinely left out when I was a kid like dressings, condiments, jellies, jams, pickles, eggs, pies, cakes, bread, and butter. These items didn't used to say to keep refrigerated and didn't have expiration dates, either.

As far as sheets and clothes go, I was raised to wash everything after it was worn. Sheets got washed weekly. When I was young, poor, and had to cart everything to the laundromat, I would wash sheets every 2 weeks and wear shirts and jeans twice before washing. Any more than that and the items had detectable stink. I can't imagine what 6 month bed sheets smell like. Yuck!

That's funny. My jeans get washed once a week. I live alone and don't get any... But wash my sheets once a week.

Explains the really weird and bad smells..

I notice lots of French, Spanish and UK citizens don’t bathe regularly and wear lots of cologne. Like well dressed, well off looking people..

3 times a year for me. Then again, I am the only one sleeping in them.

From age 18 to about 28, the only bedding I had was a sleeping bag. I didn't wash it once in that span of ten years.

WHen I had a cat who slept in the bed, every 2 weeks, now without a cat, monthly and don't use detergent.

Ummm....sheets get washed every week. Pillows put in the dryer every few weeks and replaced once a year. Quilts, blankets (on bedding) washed every two to three weeks. Sofa cushion covers about 2-3 times per year but I have a dog and I keep blankets on my sofas just to prolong the cushion cover washing. I wash those blankets one a week. I might wear jeans twice max before washing but I live in FL, it’s hot.

I have teenagers and I tell them to AT LEAST change their pillowcases once a week if not more often. It can contribute to acne. I bought silk pillow cases for my girls because it’s supposed to be more gentle on their hair, less breakage.

I use vinegar as a final rinse and a bit of borax in the laundry sometimes.

Also change your A/C filters every month and run vinegar down the condensation drain (I think that’s what it’s called). I don’t care if the filters say 3 months, I change mine monthly. They’re not expensive.