Washing pajamas/sheets
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Anonymous
| How long do you allow your teenagers to go (particularly boys) before making them wash their pajamas and bed sheets? A week? DS 14 says it's "fine" to go longer and I want to pick my battles, but more than a week seems gross. Maybe I'm the oddball, though? |
Anonymous
| A week is fine unless they stink? |
Anonymous
| I tend to only pick battles where one person's decision has an effect on someone else and is starting to cause a problem, or if not a situation involving multiple people, then one where the negative consequences of failing to do as I ask would be serious and long-lasting. Otherwise, I try to leave my teens to make their own choices if they're the only one who will have to deal with minor/unimportant/easily reversed consequences. I agree that it's gross, but since the grossness only impacts him I would probably let it go. |
Anonymous
| Understandable concern, but once he realizes he stinks, he'll do something about it (hopefully!). |
Anonymous
| I would only enforce the sheets being changed on your schedule. That's basic housekeeping and a good lesson to learn at home. If he wants to wear pajamas until they can walk out the door on their own, so be it. |
Anonymous
| Sheets are not an issue because all the bedrooms get changed at the same time. PJs are not an issue because he doesn't wear anything. |
Anonymous
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We wash our sheets every 2 weeks. Seems fine. I don't know how much more smelly teen boys are, admittedly.
Once a week seems ambitious to me. |
Anonymous
| 2-3 weeks is fine if they are showering right before bed. |
Anonymous
They are smelly. |
Anonymous
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NP here. We wear fresh PJs every two days as we take a shower every night before going to bed. I change the sheets every two weeks. I have white sheets and pillow cases and two weeks is the maximum I will go without changing it because I do not want them to become gray or grungy.
My youngest DS is finicky about bed-sheets and pillow cases and only wants beautifully laundered and ironed bed linen when we change it. Since this is his only idiosyncrasy we let it slide. I think he picked this up when my mom was visiting a few years ago and she is an avid iron-er. I grew up in an household where everything was ironed and beautifully stacked in the closets and dressers. Even sheets, towels and underwear!!! |
Anonymous
| I do all the linens on the weekend, so I tell my teenager to bring his sheets up and give him a clean set. No big deal. |
Anonymous
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Sheets get washed every week.
All PJ's in the hamper- Once a week wash |
Anonymous
| Your 14yo DS wears pajamas? |
Anonymous
| DD is 13 and probably washes her sheet about every month or two. She only has one sheet, and we have to pay to use the washing machine and dryer. |
Anonymous
12:31 here. I say PJs, they're usually old shorts or sweatpants and Tshirts. Yes, they are his night clothes, bed clothes, clothes he sleeps in, PJ's, whatever. 
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