Boy, what the hell is wrong with people?   Is it simply a matter of being THAT lazy???  Imagine those people who shower in the morning rather than at night and go to bed dirty or sweaty... those sheets would be SO gross!

I shower @ night before bed and change/wash my sheets every week.   Period.  

"Coldwatercoccus is that Sour Smell once the body heat activates all the soil,sweat, body oils and kitchen grease only to be masked by Over fragranced detergent and quarts of Fabric Softener left in the fibers of the material."

Maybe that 's the reason someone I work with usually has a smell that I would describe as a combination of sour milk and BO. She's a rather large girl and I always thought that fact in addition to not bathing often enough was the reason for it but maybe not. In addition she's a smoker and then every so often she'll spritz on some over powering body spray she keeps in her desk after coming back in from having a butt. The combination of all just about makes me hurl.

I've gotten into several heated discussions with people who think it's perfectly acceptable to give their dogs a bath in the kitchen sink where they prepare food. I'm sorry, I think that's disgusting. 

Shower before going to bed, sheets once a week. Dogs (I have 2 Springer 's) sleeping on the sheets in the bed...that gets another disgusting. I do have thin king sized, lightweight quilt that covers the bed and the dogs sleep on the end of that. It's easily washed. At one time my/our dog slept on the floor. But when my partner suddenly passed away the grief counselor told my friends "you go over there and tell him to make sure he lets the dog sleep on the bed with him". It made things better and it has  ever since.

As bad as some people may be today just think how odoriferous people were 100+ and more years ago. In the 1800s and even into the 1900s before indoor plumbing people took a bath once a week on Saturday night in a tub in the kitchen. Water heated on the wood or coal stove. Children first. Then mother. And lastly father using the same water.

During the Renaissance period in Europe perfume became very popular with royalty and the wealthy to mask body odors because of the sanitary practices of the period. At about the same time the popular tradition of the June bride came about in Europe because it was when people took their yearly bath and brides took advantage of that so to have a decent smelling crowd. It was also convenient because flowers were available and very necessary to mask the smell of those who hadn't yet cleaned up. The tradition of a bride carrying a bouquet came from a time when she carried it out of necessity to mask odors.  

Cant say 100% for sure but I always understood that father bathed last because he was the dirtiest. I am thinking with the mindset of where I live which is very rural and was dominated by farms where people worked hard everyday. May have been different in cities where father may not of had a physically strenuous job.   

Cleaning habits are like religions, there is the "light and the way" and everyone else is doomed!

I loved this MMM essay on cleaning...and boy did it generate a lot of comments.

Mine get changed usually every Sunday but sometimes I'll go up to 10 days.  Hot water and heaviest soil to allow heater to boost water temp.  When my partner and the 4-legged kids are here, then Allergen cycle is used (130 degrees for sure).  With queen size bed, I wash 2 sets together and I always picks colors/shades which can be washed together.  I've already told him when they're here full time, we'll have a king size bed and I'll wash sheets every 3 to 4 days.  I've also told him they'll each have 2 "blankets" each that will get switched and washed every 3 or 4 days as they roll up/around in them and lay on them all the time when awake or asleep during the day.  (It's what's put on the couch as a "cover")  the Dependable Care dryer will need to be replaced by the time they're here full time with all that laundry too. 

Once a week here as well, usually annoys my 24 year old son, but it takes only a couple of minutes to put new sheet and pillowcases on a bed.  We do our mattress pads once a month and vacuum and turn/flip mattresses at the same time.  All hot washes, always.

I have rarely had clothes shrink in hot water, Martin is right, the dryer will be the culprit in most cases of shrinkage as the evaporation of moisture can make natural fibers constrict when dried.   Chocolate causes more shrinkage than any laundering process.

I have known some who obviously wash clothes in cold water, nowhere is this more obvious than the gym.  I wonder if anyone gives any thought at all of the temperatures it takes to make the polyester and nylon threads their workout clothes contain and that 100-120F won't hurt them one bit.   The olfactory evidence is clear on that pondering.  Blech.

Sheets and pillowcases changed weekly.  Mattress pad washed monthly.  Washed in hot water, rinsed in warm water, and dried on high in the dryer or line dried weather permitting.

We wash the dog's queen size bed every week. More often if she has been rolling in the dirt. Ours never more than every seven days and face clothes and towels get used once, ditto kitchen towels.

And I feel as though we're not the least bit overly tidy or unusual.

Once a month? Seriously?

Igitt.

I flat out don't want to know how often they change underwear. Is there nothing nicer than coming home, taking a relaxing shower and putting on fresh clothes for the rest of the evening? Getting out of a (clean) bed to fresh towels and a shower and fresh clothes?