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Post by Di on Aug 20, 2015 14:00:22 GMT -5
The basic rules for ANYTHING in your home are:
1. Do you use it on a regular basis?
2. Do you love it?
3. Do you have a place to keep it?
4. Does your keeping it detract from the use of your home?
5. Is it getting ruined by squalor?
The answers to these questions determine my allocation of "real estate" The sad truth is, none of us can keep everything that we want. Space is finite in our homes, for some, it's more finite than others.
If keeping it fills a need that outweighs the space requirements of the item then it stays. Otherwise it has to go.
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Post by sharky on Aug 20, 2015 14:27:53 GMT -5
I think it's excessive to use a new towel every day, but I've known others with this preference. I change mine every three showers.
I'm just one person with one bed. I have 2 sets of summer sheets, 2 sets of winter sheets, and 4 bath towels. I also have a few "rag towels" in case of a spill or flood. I have extra pillow cases because I change my sheets weekly but I like to change my pillow case more often because of allergies and oily skin.
I use my duvet as a blanket in spring / fall, and then I add my electric blanket in the depths of winter.
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Post by catherina on Aug 20, 2015 14:56:31 GMT -5
The kids have three sets of bedding each, one on, one off, and one in the wash, although their favourites from when they were small are still boxed up and still in the loft. We have only one sheet for our king sized bed, because they keep disappearing! But we have a double and a king size duvet, one for summer and one for winter, and several duvet covers for each, probably too many really.
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Post by rededen on Aug 22, 2015 19:48:12 GMT -5
In Victorian England, at least I think it was Victorian England, there was the idea of keeping 3's. My mother adhered to this. One in the cupboard, one is the wash and one worn/being used. Of course it depends on how many you have in your house. My sister, brother, our parents and I had the same sized beds (5 single beds) and always white sheets so the bed linen was always interchangable. At one time our mum used a laundry service so every Sunday morning the sheets would get changed and the dirty ones got picked up on Monday mornings. There are times I wished I had a laundry service!
If there's only two people in the house, and the one bed, then that Victorian idea seems quite ok. One set of sheets on the bed, one in the wash and one in the linen cupboard.
The answer is that it depends on how many of you live in the one house; your lifestyle; your storage space; your time spent washing & how often you want to change the sheets etc etc.
The bath towels are changed when needed. If they're still damp from a shower, then a new one gets used. If I can get the towels aired in the sun, of course I don't have so many to wash. Here in Melbourne, even in our winter, oddly enough sheets and towels will be damp dry by about 3pm if I can get them out to hang on the line by about 8am. Us Aussies love our clothes lines.
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Post by Jannie on Aug 26, 2015 8:45:45 GMT -5
I think I have three sets of sheets for my bed. And because I have trouble putting fitted sheets on the mattress, I have narrowed it down to striped sheets only. I do change sheets once a week, faithfully. That's the day hubby gets his weekly shower from his Home Health Aide. (My husband has multiple sclerosis and is confined to bed). I read somewhere that the Rule of Thumb on "anything" is three. One to use, one to be washed, and one in storage. I must have about ten coffee mugs, though. And I have lots and lots of towels- all white.
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