How Often Do You Change Bed Linens (sheets)?

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  1. Lon Tanner

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    Got out of bed and took off the top & bottom sheet and two pillow cases and put them in my washing machine. Took them out when washed and put them in the dryer. When I took them out of the dryer there was only one pillow case and the two sheets. I have looked every where-----behind the machines and off to the sides, under the bed. Not stuck in the machines or stuck to the sheets. We have all had missing socks which usually stick to one of the tumblers, but a large pillow case. DO YOU HAVE IT OR DDID MY WASHING MACHINE EAT IT?
     
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    Are you absolutely sure that one pillowcase isn't inside the other one?

    It's my washing machine that eats things..not my dryer... o_O
     
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    It will turn up when you're not looking for it. Relax, pour yourself a glass of wine and forget about it.

    That's what I do minus the wine.
     
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    Ren - I sympathise with you. Its one of life's mysteries and I've given a lot of thought to the subject of
    missing items - I've come to the conclusion that Gremlins 'do' exist and they are a damn nuisance !
     
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    If you have a washing machine with an agitator, sometimes the items will get stuck between the agitator and the sides (inside of the machine) of the washer. When the agitator is in motion, apparently sometimes items will get pushed up and over that part and aren't visible unless you move the agitator around to look. Apparently that's where a lot of socks live.
     
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    Hi @Diane Lane - the thing is, Ren put them in the dryer
    When I do the same, I make sure the 2 pillowcases are there to put into the dryer, I guess Ren did the same
     
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    Ahhh HA...I knew washing machines ate socks! IF your pillow cases made it all the way into the dryer ren, I'm not sure what to tell ya. Check to make sure it didn't get rollled up into the sheet somehow. That is something that truly could happen.
     
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    @K E Gordon - yea Karen - happens to me, those darn pillow cases getting wrapped inside the sheet
    but, I bet Ren has checked that - no, its the Gremlins ...........
     
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    Did Ren spend the night with a lady that had false eyelashes??
     
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  12. Lon Tanner

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    Nothing cozier than getting into bed with fresh clean sheets. Changing every day would sure be nice and we would probably sleep better, but it's not practical, so how often do you change?
     
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    Every Monday.
     
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    We change them every couple of days and sometimes more often, largely because our cats share the bed, and the cat hair makes things itchy. When I was single, I changed sheets every day but, because I was in EMS, I used hospital sheets that I would circulate back into the hospital laundry, so I didn't have to wash my own sheets.

    The way that worked was that each ambulance company would buy sheets imprinted with the ambulance company name but because we would invariably leave our sheets with the patient when we left them at the ER, the hospital laundry service was clean them, and we would eventually get them back, although there was a lot of overlap. Mixed in with our sheets were hospital sheets and sheets from other ambulance companies.

    The personal use was my gaming the system so that I didn't have to wash my own sheets.
     
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  15. Holly Saunders

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    yep I'd love to change my sheets every day... but similar to Beth, I change my bedding every Monday...
     
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