Do you wash blankets/quilts between guests?

[Anonymous]

At my in-laws for the last few days. We’re headed home and my husband’s brother and family are taking our place. Helping out by stripping beds and MIL said to just put sheets in the laundry room and leave the blankets and quilts…. Umm. Eww.

It led me to think… do you wash blankets and quilts between guests?

We use a duvet at home for our own bed and guest rooms and always wash the duvet cover at the very least

[Anonymous]

Eww. Yes obviously

[Anonymous]

No. Sheets only. If you don’t want to come visit now, it’s fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eww. Yes obviously

+1. Eww.

[Anonymous]

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Sheets, duvet cover yes.

Blankets no. I air out by draping over chairs.

No body oils came in contact with the blanket.


Hotels don’t wash actual bedspreads or blankets between guests (just sheets that sandwich a duvet)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sheets, duvet cover yes.

Blankets no. I air out by draping over chairs.

No body oils came in contact with the blanket.


Hotels don’t wash actual bedspreads or blankets between guests (just sheets that sandwich a duvet)

Sheets move… blankets absolutely end up touching bodies. This is extremely gross

[Anonymous]

I only wash the sheets, not the blankets. I would wash duvet covers though.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I wash all of them. But also I specifically HAVE blankets and quilts that can easily go in the washer and dryer. I think those big puffy comforters that don't get washed are disgusting.

[Anonymous]

No, just the sheets. And if you think hotels wash blankets or duvets between every check-out, you are wrong.

[Anonymous]

Of course! We wash everything!

[Anonymous]

Yes but I wash ours regularly too.

[Anonymous]

The mixture of responses here is so interesting, so let’s ask it another way — if you are staying at someone’s house, do you expect that the blankets/comforter/quilt have been cleaned since the last visitor?

[Anonymous]

We wash all that comes in contact with skin. This usually does not include blankets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The mixture of responses here is so interesting, so let’s ask it another way — if you are staying at someone’s house, do you expect that the blankets/comforter/quilt have been cleaned since the last visitor?

I am a PP who does clean everything between guests - and no, I don't expect the same at other people's houses. I think staying in hotels and in other people's houses, just like eating in restaurants, requires a lot of not thinking about things too much.