<p>This is kind of a weird question, but how often are you supposed to change sheets at college?
I'm a freshman, and I've been at my school for a week now but I don't know if I should change them once 2 weeks, 3 weeks, a month..
I do my laundry once a week but what sheets?</p>
<p>well, it's depends on you. i mean, how often did you do it at home.</p>
<p>if you have a lot of sex, i recommend washing them often. but if not, then just do it with you laundry if it fits every week. whatever.</p>
<p>i do it depending on what i've done on my bed come laundry time, and no i don't just mean sex. also, i have two sets so i switch when i feel like it.</p>
<p>Kinda depends on what you like. My oldest changed his sheets when they were just down right nasty--food spilled, etc. My other two kids say they always did theirs weekly with their other laundry. My one son even washes his comforter every couple weeks because he said people sit on his bed and get it dirty.</p>
<p>About the comforter...if you like to sit on your bed, which I do, then get a cheap fleece blanket or any other kind of comfy blanket and put it over your comforter when you sit on your bed...it will extend the lifetime of your comforter...I am terrible about washing my sheets...I was them whenever I remember/feel like it, but I never let them get unhygenic</p>
<p>I change my sheets weekly at home, and I plan on doing the same at college. I will have to do laundry every week anyway, since I only have enough towels for a week's worth of showers.</p>
<p>Don't you use towels more than once?! I use the same bath towel for atleast a few days!</p>
<p>I never use towels more than once.</p>
<p>I have two sets of sheets, I think it's important to have more than one just in case.</p>
<p>I've tended to change them every two weeks, and the set I take off goes in the hamper with the rest of my laundry and gets washed when I do the laundry.</p>
<p>I use each towel twice. Each time I shower, I use one towel for my hair and another for the rest of my body. The next day, the hair towel becomes the body towel, and I get a fresh towel for my hair. I wouldn't want to re-use a towel that I had used to dry certain, ahm, areas of my body. It seems sort of drying yourself off with your used underwear.</p>
<p>i'd link a dilbert cartoon, but since i dunno where it is or how to do it, i'll paraphrase...</p>
<p>wally: i'm the cleanest thing in the bathroom after i take a shower right?
w: so wouldn't it make sense that every time i dry myself off with a towel it gets cleaner?
dilbert: ....
w: <em>tangent</em> hey, are towels supposed to bend? =P</p>
<p>anyways, i plan on doing laundry weekly, one week for clothes, one week for sheets, and i have two towels so one a week. odd, the word towel has lost its meaning. it just looks so funny. towel towel towel. heehee</p>
<p>I guess the tables have turned. Over in the shower topic, I was one of the weirdos who wouldn't use the sam towel for a week (eww!), but here I'm the weirdo who's only going to wash sheets once a month. No One sits on my bed because we have them bunked and mines on the bottom, so if you sit on it, our ladder's in the way and it isn't an ideal position for talking with people. You're kind of laying back on the bed.</p>
<p>At home, my family is lazy and once a month was about as often as sheets get washed. So it won't be a big change. As I said in the Pajamas topic, I only feel the need to have something be clean every day if it has direct contact with my body for an extended period of time. Sheets don't qualify.</p>
<p>You said using a towel more than once is like wiping your body with a pair of used underwear. How crazy is that? If you think that your body (or certain parts) are so dirty that you can't re-use the towel, then maybe you should wash up better.</p>
<p>And I'm going to once again be the one that everyone thinks is gross
I wash my sheets when I go home. That's actually the only laundry I <em>usually</em> bring home. Which means they get washed every 2 or 3 weeks. I always shower before bed, so I'm clean when I'm on my sheets, and I'm the only person ever in contact with the sheets</p>
<p>I guess I'm just gross, but I think washing towels after EVERY use is just a huge waste of water. I mean that's like a full load a week of just TOWELS.</p>
<p>Rafiqah, I guess the dirty underwear analogy is a bit extreme. I am neither germophobic nor incapable of cleaing myself adequately, it's just that in my house we have always washed our towels after each use. To do it any other way just seems kind of gross to me. I have no problem with other people reusing towels, I just wouldn't choose to do so myself.</p>
<p>Thanks guys.. I actually changed my sheets today lol
I like to keep my room and myself clean so I think I'll change my sheets every week.
Maybe I'm a little OCD because I keep a chargeable vacuum in my room too hahah</p>
<p>Heh, I might get persecuted for this...</p>
<p>I think ppl are <em>way</em> too germophobic these days...</p>
<p>for one, when you come outta the shower, ur the cleanest ur gonna be all day- the towel doesnt become diseased after u use it- unless it doubles as an ass-wiping device. (or something for other unmentionable activities)</p>
<p>The idea ppl neglect is this- just because a part ur body is used for #1 or #2 doesnt mean its covered in excrement daily. Take George Carlin's example:
He says you should be more worried about your HANDS touchin ur ...cough... rather than vice versa. Your hands- scratch your ***, pick ur nose, touch door handles, eat McDonalds, touch everything dirty imaginable to man...</p>
<p>Your, um, 'other one', stays in ur pants all day. Which is cleaner? point made.</p>
<p>Just sayin- people had lived outdoors for |______________| this much time and have only recently supersealed themselves off from nature completely to stay indoors all day, and germfree (ty clorox). Human body is a killing machine; i wouldnt' waste precious minutes dusting everything, spraying everything with febreeze, and freaking **** when someone takes one of your french fries (thereby contaminating the whole box). </p>
<p>Im not advocating living in complete utter squalor- just saying dont let commericals freak u out into thinking there's malicious germs stalking u behind every corner (with premeditated intent to kill). You'll just end up paniced over another senseless thing while you slowly poison urself with the loads of bleach you've spread everywhere. In a word: chill.</p>
<p>i have a feeling that vacuum would be your friend in school? =P</p>
<p>chargeable vacuum?? :p</p>