Grossed out - Page 5

VanSleepy · ‎10-05-2010

And if you don't change your sheets, you're lying in your own "stuff". What horrible thing is supposed to happen?

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

Re This thread sounds like we're having a clean contest to see who does the most laundry and takes the most showers. I suspect some people here are OCD for clean. Never heard of anyone dying of sleeping on a used sheet.

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Pooky1 · ‎12-23-2015

you would think if you are having someone sleeping over you would have bedding clean and fresh. i guess everyone dont see it that way. my aunt years ago say she had a neibor that washed sheets once a year and hang them outside on clothes line and even after being washed you could still see the shapes of there bodys on sheets.

Witchy Woman · ‎03-15-2010

@Kachina624

I'm probably a front runner for the "clean" and doing laundry contest.

Grew up with an Italian mama who made us scrub the kitchen floor with Brillo pads at least once a month! Then, we would rewax and start all over. We also scrubbed walls, and widows were washed twice a year.

All we had was a wringer washer, but nothing escaped the wash and everything was hung out to dry year around. In the winter, it would freeze on the line and we'd have to throw it over the blazing hot radiators to thaw out

Somehow, I think all that scrubbing/washing made me somewhat crazy in that department. I'll admit, I probably need therapy for it

Lucky Charm · ‎03-09-2010

I am easily skeeved out by stuff like this. Admittedly, I have OCD and am proud of it.

But slightly off topic, I remember Diane Sawyer talking to Oprah (I think?) and said that where ever in the world she was sleeping, she stuck tampons in her ears so cockroaches wouldn't get in--whilst she slept.

Yardlie · ‎03-10-2010

@QueenDanceALot wrote:
Last year I had a power outage at my house in the middle of a winter cold spell and I went to a friend's house to spend the night. Her son wasn't home and I was offered his bed.

I suspected his sheets hadn't been changed since somewhere around 2007.

I cannot believe that they didn't put on fresh sheets for a guest!

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gidgetgh · ‎03-09-2010

Ok, so I have a question. I use a memory foam pillow for my pillow. I get it from the Select Comfort store. Thick, heavy, condensed, contoured pillow. Heavy pillow.

You could never wash that. First, it would kill our washing machine. Second, it's so dense that the water would never come out of it.

On top of my memory foam pillow I use a foam rubber pillow. Can't wash that either. I just replace them every so often. The top pillow I replace about once a year....or so. The bottom pillow is expensive. I use it for quite awhile, especially since it's my bottom pillow.

So I guess I really don't have a question. You could never wash those.

And, in honor of this thread, I'm changing our sheets today!

Why is it, when I have a 50/50 guess at something, I'm always 100% wrong?

sidsmom · ‎11-25-2011

@Kachina624 wrote:
Re This thread sounds like we're having a clean contest to see who does the most laundry and takes the most showers. I suspect some people here are OCD for clean. Never heard of anyone dying of sleeping on a used sheet.

@Kachina624

..dying of sleeping on a used sheet. <giggle snort>

Showers.

There are reports which stated taking multiple showers throughout the day could upset your microbiome...making you suspectible to illness, etc. It's a old topic with my Natural Hygiene community, but I remember the Today Show talking about it recently. Like those hand sanitizers...too clean is not good.

Also...if you're outside, purposefully trying to get Vitamin D, then come inside & jump in the shower, it totally negates your efforts. Vitamin D needs to 'soak into your skin' for full impact. When I lay out (15min front, 15m back) without sunscreen, I'll give it all afternoon to soak in & then rinse off before bed.

ID2 · ‎06-25-2012

@DiAnne wrote:
How about pillows that are never washed?

I NEVER wash my pillows. I use a zippered pillow cover and a slip on pillow cover that matches my sheets and highly doubt my pillows get "dirty". Lol.

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