Sheets need to be changed?

[depechemodefan]

I stay some weekends with a friend. There is an extra room that I sleep in, that the sheets never get changed. This includes times when his dad stays over some weeks, and sleeps in the bed. So for all I know I am sleeping in his dad's wetspots.

When my friend spends nights at my house, I used to change the sheets everytime. But now I don't.

So your best Miss Manners or Emily Post, are people suppose to change the guest sheets everytime a guest comes over? Or just when a different guest comes over? Or are guests suppose to sleep in other people's filth? Personally I was all for changing sheets every time, but I'm willing to change them only when a different guest shows up. But what do you think?

And yes, I have asked him to change the sheets when I first started to stay at his house on some weekends, but sometimes he can't find sheets, or get a clue when I said something about sleeping on the same sheets his dad was using.

[KellyHabersham]

I think my mom washes/changes the guest sheets maybe twice a year, this being around the times some of my dad's relatives come down to Phoenix to visit. (they're pretty much the only ones who use that room)

[Mishi]

I prefer to change them between visits/guests because I like to sleep on clean sheets and I think others would too.

[KuariKaydrith]

I think that the sheets should be changed pretty much as soon as the guests leave so that there are clean sheets on the bed for the next time somebody uses the spare bed. If I don't have a spare set of sheets for the particular bed I will wash the sheets that were on it before letting another person sleep in the bed. Heck, I even change my own sheets once a week - they collect dead skin and who knows what else so they need to be cleaned on a regular basis.

I'm of the opinion that clean sheets are a must for the first night of any guest stay because I don't think a guest would really want to sleep in somebody else's dirt, even if the sheets don't look dirty.

[Teefies2]

Ewwww Absolutely the sheets should be changed/washed after each guest. Not necessarily if the same person is sleeping there for more than one night, but if another guest is coming, change or wash them.

[NecessaryCatharsis]

I don't change the sheets for different guests, but I wash the sheets when a guest leaves, so theyre fresh for another guest, and if I know a guest is coming, and the bed hasn't been used in a few weeks, I wash them again before the guest arrives. (Sorry - I was unsure from the OP whether they meant different sheets, or washed sheets from their use of change the sheets)

My son has multiple sheets for his bed, but I only have one set for mine right now. I usually wash them twice a week (winter) and every other day (summer), but I have two comforters, because they take too long to dry for me to only have the one, and I usually only wash comforters every week or so. If guests are still there for multiple nights there I wash their sheets on the same schedule as mine, but I only have one comforter for the guest bed, so washing it while a guest is in the house takes some planning.

[depechemodefan]

. (Sorry - I was unsure from the OP whether they meant different sheets, or washed sheets from their use of change the sheets)

I wouldn't mind if they washed the same sheets, or even if they used a different set per visit. It's just I realized that the sheets weren't getting changed, even if I used the bed, then next weekend his father came and used the bed, then the next weekend I came over and used the bed.

Now his mom lives with him. She actually lives in a town 3 hours from here, but she keeps on leaving her husband because "he was driving me crazy," though months ago she said she didn't want her son to live in the house alone. Anyway, they bought another double bed and put it in her room (I guess when my friend's dad visits) but now the bed in the extra room, where I sleep in, has no sheets. There is that mattress cover, then a blanket, but no sheet. So I figured they used the sheets in the new double bed.

[crazylegs]

As a slight aside - this was a fantastic reminder to wash the sheets on the spare bed...

[MoonCat]

Definitely should be changed or washed when different people use the bed.

My advice: Bring your own and take them with you when you leave. Yes, a little inconvenient, but it works.

[Sapphire Silk]

I always wash the sheets after the guest leaves. I remake the bed and cover it with a bedspread. However, if it has been awhile since a guest has used that room, I will change the sheets before the guest arrives and wash them and the covers because dust will accumulate. Some people have allergies.

The rest of my house is often pretty cluttered. But I try to clean it up before I have guests. It's one thing for me to live in a pig sty. I would never ask a guest to.

[depechemodefan]

I was think today of bringing my old stained (but definitely washed) Holly Hobbie set. One of the stains came from me using the set on a chair (that sort of reclined) at the hospital when my mom had some surgery and I was staying with her. A nurse was draining the blood from the thing that was colleting blood (well, mostly other liquids) and it flew from her hands and sprayed on the wall, the phone of the room and the sheets.

I IM my friend today earlier, telling him there was no sheets and he replied "ok". Don't know if that means he will look into it, but I figure he will forget.

[Seshat]

With us, it sometimes depends on ability. However, we have enough sets of sheets that at worst, we can ask the friend to help change the sheets.

My preference would be to have fresh sheets and clean blankets on the bed, and a towel, washer and fresh bar of soap sitting on the bed for the guest. It just depends on how well we've been between guests.

[depechemodefan]

I had to remind my friend when I went over about the sheets. For some reason, the fitted sheet didn't fit, though before that same sheet fitted. Though maybe it's a different mattress (they bought another bed; I guess they moved the old one to another one).

[MoonCat]

I had to remind my friend when I went over about the sheets. For some reason, the fitted sheet didn't fit, though before that same sheet fitted. Though maybe it's a different mattress (they bought another bed; I guess they moved the old one to another one).

That could be.

We had friends who bought an antique bed for their guest room. It was wider than a twin but narrower than a full, so it was VERY hard to find sheets for. They had to special order the mattress to fit the rails, in fact. It was also hard as a slab of rock. Somebody told them that extremely firm mattresses are better for your back, so they just took his word for it.

[wolfie]

We had friends who bought an antique bed for their guest room. It was wider than a twin but narrower than a full, so it was VERY hard to find sheets for.

Have you considered a truck supply place? Seriously - the mattresses in sleeper cabs tend to be odd sizes. One of the more common is Twin XL (39x80), which is a semi-standard size elsewhere (curiously, it's also common in college dorms). With twin being 39 inches, and full being 54 inches, this one might match a Western Star mattress (42 inches) in width. Of course, length (84 inches) might be a problem.

Another possibility might be that it's a European size. Some years back, I read in the paper that people buying beds at Ikea were having a similar problem due to Ikea selling European-sized mattresses which didn't match any of the standard North American sizes.