• d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Best be careful when changing sheets anyway. It’d be a shame if your mattress wasn’t properly killed before being shipped from Sqornshellous Zeta and it went on a flollop rampage after being exposed to too much sunlight.

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      Reverse this for me. I shower first thing in the morning every day and my bath towels are just drying clean skin. They only touch me for maybe a minute or two before being hung to dry.

      However, I go to sleep at night, after a full day of developing natural body oils on my skin. And I lie in bed for 8+ hours at a time.

      My bed sheets are far more gross after a week of use than my towel will get in a month, more or less a couple weeks.

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      I momentarily misread that as “depression fart” and was expecting a different reason for changing sheets.

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    We usually change the bedding weekly, I.e. every Sunday and the towels usually as soon as they start to develop this old wet umbrella stench, which takes about 3-4 days.

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      Oh my god, that smell is mildew. If your towels are kept so humid that they’re mildewing the colliform bacteria in your bathroom is having an entire festival on there. Please, before you get a horrible infection, please start swapping them out more frequently. I’m begging you, rubbing that on even a small open wound could be legitimately life threatening (for example if you’re the lucky winner of E.Coli roulette, which is *also absolutely growing on your towels).

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        Unfortunately the towels don’t dry very well on the towel rack. But don’t worry. We don’t use stinky towels. They get thrown on 90°C washing immediately 😅

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    Mattress, about five years. Towels, every decade or so.

    Just keep the ones you have clean with regular washing, and they don’t wear out that fast.

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    Weekly for both. We live in the tropics, love sex so wash sheets often; shower daily but use same towel all week.

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    bath towels every couple of showers. I use a separate towel for my head/hair though.
    bed sheets, varies, depends on temperature and sweatiness.