Relatives don’t wash sheets between house guests, thoughts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they're that clueless or careless about basic hygiene, who knows what else they do around their house? I wouldn't stay or eat at their place.

Agree!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not good...do as a previous poster wrote..bring your own. You don't want to get lice from a dirty pillow case or bed bugs from dirty sheets.

Simply changing the sheets won't protect you from either of those parasites.

Unless they have frequent guests, any lice are probably dead. Changing sheets won’t necessarily get rid of bedbugs, and while you can use the opportunity to inspect the mattress, if there are bedbugs they may have already infested your belongings.

Frankly, I’d be more worried about body fluids that might have been left behind by the previous guests.

The previous guests have probably farted in their sleep as well. /s

[Anonymous]

So moving forward, change sheets when you arrive and strip bed and start laundry when you leave. I would think you are doing the latter already as a good house guest.

[Anonymous]

Hotel time

[Anonymous]

OP how did you find out? Do the sheets smell?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP how did you find out? Do the sheets smell?

+1
OP's OP is useless because of course everyone will think this is gross and would never.
But did you see makeup smears or something else?
That's how I found out my in-laws (HOUSEKEEPERS) were not changing and I narc'ed. MIL thought they had been doing the changing and they were being lazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always wash between guests. And if it’s been a few weeks since the guest room sheets have been washed, I’ll do them again before someone arrives.

Same. And I very very often wash the comforter or quilt as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So moving forward, change sheets when you arrive and strip bed and start laundry when you leave. I would think you are doing the latter already as a good house guest.

No, do not strip sheets in my house.

[Anonymous]

Hotel please!

[Anonymous]

Oh man, I have a very insensitive “ick” meter and a messy house and that would be a hard no for me. You also shouldn’t leave sheets on the bed for months when no one is there, but that’s a much lesser sin.

[Anonymous]

Been there. If we arrived early enough in the day we would find some excuse why we needed to run a load of laundry and then do the sheets. Idk if they weren’t washed between guests, but the dog would hang out in that bed and it smelled like dog, and the sheeets were sandy / gritty feeling.

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Anonymous wrote:So moving forward, change sheets when you arrive and strip bed and start laundry when you leave. I would think you are doing the latter already as a good house guest.

No, do not strip sheets in my house.

Same, people often strip the bed, but then when close friends or family stay multiple times I ask them not to and reassure that it’s easier for me that way. It’s totally because I don’t have guests that often and have cleaners every couple weeks so they will swap out the sheets and for some reason, I like the bed to look put together in the meantime.

But obviously this has nothing to do with changing sheets between guests, which I absolutely do.

[Anonymous]

If I found this out, I would never stay at their house again. Those who say bring your own sheets are ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

That’s poor hospitality. Yuck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP how did you find out? Do the sheets smell?

My sibling was staying at this person’s house and there were socks in the sheets at the foot of the bed and that’s how it came up in conversation with the host.

I genuinely asked here because I was waiting for someone to say that they also don’t change the sheets and then state their reasoning around it. I totally can’t wrap my brain around it and I was trying to figure out if I was being too uptight! I don’t know where to put it in my understanding of this person.

So if the house is a nicely kept home and there aren’t other signs of uncleanliness, what do people make of this practice?