Britons 'sleep in dirty duvets'
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dessiato
4 years and I still cry sometimes
I don't use a duvet over here, but have my sheets and blanket washed every week. I sleep naked and love the feel of fresh crisply ironed coton on my flesh! (Maybe if I had to do my own washing and ironing I would do it less often, but what's the point of keeping a woman and not using her?)
aurora green
Tectonic
mr steev said:Quote:
The research project was commissioned by Hotpoint Aqualtis.
Says it all...
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
but not your actual duvet, right?northernhoard said:
i have once washed a duvet. I had been stored in my mum's garage while i was between houses and it smelled damp - otherwise i wouldn't bother.
You have to go to the launderette where they have those special machjines, and it costs a fair bit. some duvets need dry cleaning - and that's even pricier. sod that for a game of soldiers. Bring on the dust mites.
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
LD Rudeboy said:We get ours dry-cleaned once or twice a year. Usually, because I've got Guinness all over it.
You should never get a duvet dry cleaned, the fumes from that can kill you, least that's what they told me when I took mine in to get cleaned. I'd hope they're just washing it for you.
I'm a bit
ed that loads of you don't clean your duvet. We now have a summer, autumn/spring and winter duvet. They all get washed annually or biannually depending on usage.Filth = good
Sterility = bad
Sterility = bad
Stobart Stopper
Well-Known Member
I always use mattress and pillow protectors as well, and chuck out our feather pillows after 2 years and replace them with new ones. I am really fussy about my bedding.
madzone
Physically unfavourable
geminisnake said:I'm a bit
3 duvets? My gran used to have summer curtains and winter curtains as well. I don't grasp the concept of 3 different duvets. I've got duvet, not the duvet - that's it
I'm generally really lame at bedding and have never cleaned a duvet. I just generally buy a new one everytime I move (about once a year). I know, sounds stupid, but you can get duvets for a tenner from places like Peacocks and thats about the cost of getting it dry cleaned and I cant be arsed to lug it to a launderette to find a machine big enough to wash one.
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
madzone said:
Only coz the original is years old, then I bought a warmer one(12.5), then that wasn't warm enough so I bought a 15 tog feather one.
The council put in double glazing some months later so we don't really need 15 togs much anymore but we don't have heating upstairs and it's ludicrously windy here and we sleep with the window open all year round or I get headaches.
I too have summer and winter curtains. We needed them before the DG.
Your gran probably had loads of blankets
madzone
Physically unfavourable
geminisnake said:Only coz the original is years old, then I bought a warmer one(12.5), then that wasn't warm enough so I bought a 15 tog feather one.
The council put in double glazing some months later so we don't really need 15 togs much anymore but we don't have heating upstairs and it's ludicrously windy here and we sleep with the window open all year round or I get headaches.
I too have summer and winter curtains. We needed them before the DG.
Your gran probably had loads of blankets
It's ok, you don't have to explain your seasonal soft furnishing obsession to me. I'm sure it's all perferctly normal
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
madzone said:It's ok, you don't have to explain your seasonal soft furnishing obsession to me. I'm sure it's all perferctly normal
If I wasn't going out to Tai Chi you woulda been getting a rude phonecall later
EastEnder said:4 years????
Pah! I can beat that hands down.
Reckon mine must be at least 8 years old by now.....
Oh Lordy!
Yes I do wash duvets although usually only after some accident has befallen them
I'm not as good as I should be at regular changing of bedsheets. I tend to wait till they're dirty or summat. So my sons bedsheets get washed sometimes daily. Mine, er, tend to last rather longer
Stobart Stopper
Well-Known Member
I am going to get some sheets and bedspreads next time I go to Oswaldwistle Mill, I find duvets really hot, even the thinner ones. There's nothing nicer than freshly laundered white sheets.
Bedspreads are easier to fit in the machine. I have gone back to 'blankets' on the childrens beds for the same reason.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Sounds like a plan by Hotpoint to scare Middle England into thinking they're so minging they need to wash their duvets, which most normal washing machines can't handle, thus requiring Middle England to buy their swanky new machines, which unsurprisingly have a duvet cycle.
But then I have a nasty suspicious mind
Worried about dustmites? Hoover the mattress. Problem solved.
But then I have a nasty suspicious mind
Worried about dustmites? Hoover the mattress. Problem solved.
northernhord
Active Member
I remember havin a casual fling with a friend in Hulme years ago, I was a little surprised to see a film of ingrained shite running along the top of the duvet, yet inherself she was such a clean girl
northernhoard said:
Just dirty in between the sheets eh??
Sorry sorry sorry sorry............
northernhord
Active Member
angelofthenorth said:Just dirty in between the sheets eh??
Sorry sorry sorry sorry............
Nar I dont mind, that was quite funny, I never looked at it like that
chainsaw cat
Tea. Biccies. Happy now?
Duvets don't need cleaning, they are so absorbent that it would take decades for them to get so dirty that a wash was essential.
Same with jeans.
Same with jeans.
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