How Often Should You Actually Wash Your Sheets?

You'll likely spend up to a third of your life in bed. Making sure it's clean will not only make it more pleasant to sleep in, but might even help you sleep better. Here are the essentials you need to know for how often to wash your sheets, pillows, mattress, comforter, and more.

[amqd]

Wow! I did not know I should be washing my bedding this often!

[The_Stubborn_Christian]

My grandmother, my mother, me, and my daughter have always washed sheets every Saturday. Blankets and comforters once a month. You shed hundreds of dead skin cells every night...eeewwww...

[walterfoyt]

I’m a single man and maybe I’m obsessive but I wash my sheets and blanket every week. I also have a mattress and a pillow cover, which I wash every other month. My bed spread / comforter I have professional cleaned every six months.

[LokiDaFerret]

ONCE A WEEK!!?? You DO NOT want to know when I last washed my sheets. 😥

[AlexMercadoGo]

This video should also exist as a table. If only there were a popular website on which to put such a table.

[moverton]

Growing up, blanks and sheets where rarely washed. Once every few years or so. I have also heard you should buy a new mattress about ever 8 years. I slept on the same mattress from 4 to when I moved out of my parents house (22).

So to me washing bedding once a week sounds excessive.

[danmills]

One other thing: If you sleep naked on dirty sheets and are constantly moving your pillow from between your legs to under your head, you’re theoretically running the risk that your mouth or eyes could come into contact with bits of stool. If you’re healthy, this thought is more disturbing than anything else. But if you happen to have a compromised immune system, like if you’ve come down with the flu, that could technically leave you more vulnerable to illnesses that spread through bacteria in feces, like pink eye.

[AndrewH.]

I take a shower every night before going to bed, so washing sheets "at least once a week" sound excessive and not very environmentally conscientious... Also, you can't throw a memory-foam pillow in the washer.

[Boner_Champ]

I rotate sheets & pillow cases every 3-4 days, comforter/duvet once a week. Pillows every 2 weeks and mattress cover same every 2 weeks.

[dianeshelley]

I used to wash my bed clothes very often and hang them on the line outside cause I didn't have a dryer. I loved to smell my clothes after they were dry.

[joshuahoward]

I wash my sheets, towels, and comforter every week with Tide, Gain, Lysol Laundry Santizer and Downy Fabric Softener

[levimust]

Sound advice. I'm passing this over to my staff. The upstairs maids have looked a bit overly relaxed lately, not enough work.

[paige]

Lol I use like 70 blankets and 20 pillows (in case you can’t tell I’m exaggerating but seriously I have a lot of both, like 2 covers that I actually cover up with, I like to sandwich my legs between them so they don’t touch skin to skin or rub while I’m sleeping, and 3 throws that I prop myself up with or just lay against my face because it’s soft and feels nice. I also cover my eyes with them even though I have both blacked out windows with blankets over them and an eye mask lol and I have 2 body pillows, one I use to prop my iPad on to watch tv or play game and one to cuddle at night, and finally I have 5 stuffed animals, a 23 year old girl so don’t come for me lol they aren’t just for kids okay lol, and a chair pillow.) My bed is a queen mattress that came in a box vacuum sealed into like 1/10 of its actually size once it expanded for 48 hours, and I have depression so I eat, sleep, read, play games, do homework, watch tv, etc etc etc in my bed so I’ve made it a haven. That said, in my huge long rant/spiel, it’s obviously a pain to wash everything and takes like at least 2 loads of laundry (we have the big whatever it’s called sized washer and dryer). I washed everything today including spraying my mattress with microban and it is a welcome comfort. Everything smells so fresh and clean and feels so new and soft. Sorry for the unnecessary novel lol but seriously once a week would kill like once a month, BUT I always shower before getting into bed and I’m always clean when I’m in bed and have on fresh clothes and stuff and my dog who is solely and indoor dog who just goes out at potty times or to play gets her feet and butt washed off before she’s allowed in my bed under my covers with me and has regular flea/tick prevention and deworming.

[Fusiongearz]

wtf is all these duvets and sheet on the bed. Bro I just have like a thing over the mattress and a blanket if and I mean IF I get cold. I can't imagine all that other stuff on your bed, it would be too hot to sleep in.

[lolitamorris]

I washed the sheets weekly, towels every 3 days

[Akiko-ciec]

Before I go to bed, I make sure I had a shower and worn washed clothes. However is it ok if I only wash my bed sheets and blanket once a month?

[ohmygodbecky]

You’re all too clean for me, i’ve been marinating in my filth for a long ass time

[abeerohome]

I wash my Abeero Home bedsheets twice a week.
Thank you for the video

[videosdrive]

I didn't even know you needed to wash your pillow

[dayvonjohnson]

I wash them 2 times a week in the summer time because I don’t know about y’all but I sweat in my sleep