Guest room sheet etiquette poll

[Anonymous]

A


Occasionally C

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also wash right away. I don't see why leaving clean sheets on a bed for a month is a bad thing. I keep it covered with a quilt or coverlet.

ITA, and we are practically pros at having guests after a dozen years with a beach house.

No one has explained why clean sheets that have been on a bed underneath a quilt/duvet/comforter etc. for a week or so aren’t OK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A - I always strip the bed immediately and wash the sheets. Dirty sheets gross me out. If it's been a long time between guests, like several months, then I'll wash them again prior to the new guest's arrival.

Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wash sheets immediately and replace with clean. If a long time passes before guests, change to fresh. Leaving used sheets on a bed is gross.

Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not want to sleep in dusty sheets that have been on a bed a month or more. This thread just reinforces how gross people are and why I prefer to stay in hotels.

Lol I gather you've never worked in a hotel.

Or even stayed at one😂. You’re delusional if you think they’re cleaner.

[Anonymous]

Both! Wash right away AND wash before new guests arrive if it has been a while.

[Anonymous]

A - strip bed (pull up comforter, set up pillows)

I don't like dirty sheet of guest left on bed

I'd either leave "fake made-up" and do sheets whenever or make up promptly

If worried about dust - just wash pillow cases right before next guests

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The first thing I do as a gust is to put a vinyl mattress cover and just to be sure we have a rubbersheet occasional bed wetter I would rather put my the pillow case if the need was there

You are a lunatic for reviving an eight year old thread.

[Anonymous]

I do both. I usually put on nice sheets and pillowcases for my guests and new pillows, comforters etc. AND I also wash the bed linen after my guests leave.

HOWEVER, I would really like if my guests did not strip off the sheets. Sure, make the bed if you want, but do not strip the beds. When I am a guest, I ask the hostess if I should strip the sheets or just make the bed before I leave. I try and be a good host and a good guest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I prefer A but I don't like it when a guest strips a bed. Just make the bed enough so it looks OK and I will get to it when I'm ready to do laundry the next day or so...

I HATE it when a guest strips the bed. Unless you're going to wash them and re-make the bed you are just dictating when I need to do it and not helping.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:B
We only have guests a couple times a year. If I washed right away, I'd have to wash again when guests arrived because the bed would get kind of dusty after no use for several months. This way, the barely used sheets are left on there and washed right before the guests arrive so they can have a fresh bed.

I can't tell you how many times I have told my in-laws to please leave the sheets on the bed. But FIL keeps stripping it and putting the whole mess on top of the washer which means I have to drop everything and wash them right away because they are blocking me from doing other laundry. And then the bed sits there unmade and gathering dust until the next visit.

Ditto. Sheets will get too dusty; and I don't want to wash them twice.