How often do you change your sheets?

[renaeden]

Now I want to buy a jersey cotton quilt cover. Over $100 though. If I save for it and get it, I will never want to get out of bed in the mornings.

['andersom']

 

Almost €70. Lot of money.

No shops with cheaper options?
I like flannel in winter, even softer than  jersey. It's either really expensive, or at a bargain at discount textile shops. Can't afford the expensive stuff.

[Walkie]

umm, i sleep between sheets on a random basis ( i mostly just drop off wherever i happen to be, most often the sofa ) and i change them when i think "hmm. it's awhile since i changed them" or  else when expecting guests (whichever comes soonest)
i would need to note sheet-changes in a diary to be able to figure out how often that comes to. and i would also ned to figure out a walkie-proof method of keeping  my diary in a place where i can  find it more often than not ; both of which would be highly novel circumstances.

you're tallking to somebody who got to the menpause before she got the hang of having monthly periods. they always arrived unexpectedly, cause i'd forget when the last one occured long before the monyth was up. amnd yeah, that sometimes occasioned a sheet-change, not to mention a good long soak of the sheets before washing them.

the feel of freshly-washed sheets next to skin is heavenly, but it doesn't last. the next night,  the sheets feel unwashed again (by comparison)  , and the following night, and the night after that. if sheets that really need changing feel or look any different , i've  never noticed that difference. hmm, so maybe i've  just happened to change them in time, every time? :shrug:

[Walkie]

PS in short: sorry, but none of those options seem to fit!

['andersom']

Did no one tell you that the "monthly" in monthly periods is a myth? 

I've promised myself a clean bed for over a week now. I'll do it when I feel better.
Bed of daughter gets cleaned  more often. Nosebleeds do the trick there.

["couldbecousin"]

  Speaking of periods, I've only had one so far in 2017.  Getting close to the end. 

[Walkie]

  Speaking of periods, I've only had one so far in 2017.  Getting close to the end. 

don't look so happy about it, since my supply of female hormones dried up, i've been strongly leaning towards that theory that they help to mask or modify the autism.  and also  a whole bunch of other things like seizures, ataxia and catastrophes in the gut region.

iIactually asked my Gp if i could have HRT, on the suspicion it would help the nameless disaster that was happening to my entire system, but she said "We only prescribe that for [typical ]menopausal symptoms"

Huh. foiled by the damned NHS again. (who's chief role in my life is to repeatedly say "No can do")

I suggest that if you get similar symptoms ( I very  hope you don't)  majke a big promotion out of night-sweats and such , just in case your Dutch system is similarly unhelpful.

['andersom']

  Speaking of periods, I've only had one so far in 2017.  Getting close to the end. 

don't look so happy about it, since my supply of female hormones dried up, i've been strongly leaning towards that theory that they help to mask or modify the autism.  and also  a whole bunch of other things like seizures, ataxia and catastrophes in the gut region.

iIactually asked my Gp if i could have HRT, on the suspicion it would help the nameless disaster that was happening to my entire system, but she said "We only prescribe that for [typical ]menopausal symptoms"

Huh. foiled by the damned NHS again. (who's chief role in my life is to repeatedly say "No can do")

I suggest that if you get similar symptoms ( I very  hope you don't)  majke a big promotion out of night-sweats and such , just in case your Dutch system is similarly unhelpful.

CBC is a proud American.

I hope I take after my mom with menopauze. Though looking forward to another decade of menstruating is no fun. But her menopauze went as smooth as can be.

Think I could convince my Dutch GP to give me HRT, when needed.

[Walkie]

CBC is a proud American.

I hope I take after my mom with menopauze. Though looking forward to another decade of menstruating is no fun. But her menopauze went as smooth as can be.

Think I could convince my Dutch GP to give me HRT, when needed.

ooops. i got her mixed up with you, hyke, didn't i?
that happen now and then, cos you are both prolific posters, you are both female, you are both admirable tpeople, and if i carry on much further with the sinmilarity thing, i shall begin to brown-nose so much that you will i am taking the piss or something.

but it's true. and besides i don't wabnt to offend the weeble. she might do some sort of menacing wobble-thing in my direction.

my mum disn't do the menopause thing until she was 60-or so.  Far from taking after her, I've had my GP muttering "ealy menopause" at me since i was 37. Not because i had a particularly early menopauase, as things turned out,  it was just the onky explanation she could think of for the bouts of excruciating pain i was getting in the appropriate part of my belly, investigation theroof having drawn a load of blanks (story of my life) .oh! and some other symptoms iiirc. but i've had so many mysrerious symptoms it's all a bit of a blur by now.

["couldbecousin"]

CBC is a proud American.

I hope I take after my mom with menopauze. Though looking forward to another decade of menstruating is no fun. But her menopauze went as smooth as can be.

Think I could convince my Dutch GP to give me HRT, when needed.

ooops. i got her mixed up with you, hyke, didn't i?
that happen now and then, cos you are both prolific posters, you are both female, you are both admirable tpeople, and if i carry on much further with the sinmilarity thing, i shall begin to brown-nose so much that you will i am taking the piss or something.

but it's true. and besides i don't wabnt to offend the weeble. she might do some sort of menacing wobble-thing in my direction.

my mum disn't do the menopause thing until she was 60-or so.  Far from taking after her, I've had my GP muttering "ealy menopause" at me since i was 37. Not because i had a particularly early menopauase, as things turned out,  it was just the onky explanation she could think of for the bouts of excruciating pain i was getting in the appropriate part of my belly, investigation theroof having drawn a load of blanks (story of my life) .oh! and some other symptoms iiirc. but i've had so many mysrerious symptoms it's all a bit of a blur by now.

  *gently wobbles over to sit with Walkie*


   I didn't realize till very recently that some women can still have regular periods well into their 50s. 
   As a youngster/teenager, I thought every woman started menopause at 40-44 or so, and that it
   lasted about six months.  Naive.    So far, my own perimenopause has been uneventful. 

[Walkie]

@ the weeble:  

["couldbecousin"]

@ the weeble:  

  We need a Walkie smiley now. 

[Walkie]

@ the weeble:  

  We need a Walkie smiley now. 

oooh! i like that. but hang on... i wonder what a walkie smiley would look like? Eek!  i have no idea!

[DirtDawg]

My wife and I love clean sheets, so no issue there. Regarding the kids, clean sheets is a potential war. Part of the point is to get them to Take Care Of Themselves!

I have even resorted to dumping left over spaghetti in my daughter's bed to convince her to freshen her bed clothes. I am not evil, just desperate to make a point at times.
It hurts us to go this far!
 

[Pyraxis]

  Your poor daughter.

I am still guilty of not changing my sheets often enough. Come to think of it I should change them now and I've been putting it off for at least a week.

Sometimes one has to learn the consequences (or advantages) of these chores for oneself.