Remember your bedsheets and keep them clean
Survey finds many people don’t replace with clean linens very often
There are a few things for which the longer you wait, the sweeter the rewards. Among them: the world’s best cup of coffee to brew; the perfect dining room set to go on sale; and a friend to admit that yes, you’re right, Jack could’ve fit on that door with Rose in Titanic after all.
But changing your bedsheets? Nope, uh- uh, no way, gross!
Yet the average person doesn’t change their sheets as often as you’d think, according to a survey conducted by Mattress Advisor. Upon asking 1,000 people, the bedding reviewer found that most of us lay down fresh sheets every 24.4 days — which works out to about three weeks and three days.
To put that in perspective, domestic doyenne Martha Stewart recommends washing your sheets once a week. ( With warm water, and flipping printed or coloured pillowcases inside out to protect the colour, in case you were wondering.)
Dead skin cells accumulate to a shudder- inducing level by the end of Week 2, but Mattress Advisor found that other people don’t start judging your hygiene until you wait 35 days ( five weeks) or more between laundering them.
The survey also found that if you are stretching out the time between sheet changes, you’re probably single: Married couples swap out their bedding about every 19.9 days, while singles wait 37 days on average — with single men changing them less often than single women.
Melissa Hank, Postmedia News