Guest room sheet etiquette poll

[Anonymous]

Guest room sheet etiquette poll!

Do you:
A) Wash sheets right after guests leave and then put them back on the bed. Guests will then sleep in sheets that are a month or two old.
B) Leave the sheets dirty and then wash immediately prior to a guest arrival
C) Wash sheets right after guests leave and then again immediately prior to a guest arrival (wash sheets twice)

I just had a guest leave and they stripped the bed and left all the dirty sheets in my laundry room. I'm somewhat frustrated because I wasn't ready to wash sheets as I like to do them right before a new guest. But now all the pillows are on the floor and the comforter is getting wrinkled so I have to wash them.

[Anonymous]

I strip the bed and wash bedding right after a guest leaves.

But we have a lot of guests - it's not unusual for someone to call Thursday and say "I'll be in town this weekend - can I crash?" and we basically always say yes.

[Anonymous]

A

[Anonymous]

Your guest is correct

[Anonymous]

I strip the bed and wash the sheets. I do not remake the bed until the new quests are set to come. I just put the comforter on the mattress so it doesn't look bare.

[Anonymous]

Everyone disagrees with OP.

[Anonymous]

A.

As a guest and as a hostess

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Definitely strip the bed right after someone sleeps in it. As a guest, I strip and fake make it (with the naked pillows, blanket and comforter). I think it is a little odd that your guest took off the comforter too, but better more than less.

I've never though about sheets being "old" when they haven't been slept on. If they weren't on the bed, they would be in the linen closet where they probably get more air than on the bed.

And leaving used sheets on the bed for a month seems kind of gross.

[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.

OP here. Yes that's the issue. I just don't have time to do the laundry and put the sheets on the bed right now, so they've been sitting in the tiny laundry room. We will have another guest for Thanksgiving and I want the sheets to be fresh for them. Maybe I'm the only one that likes the fresh laundry smell though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

OP here. Yes that's the issue. I just don't have time to do the laundry and put the sheets on the bed right now, so they've been sitting in the tiny laundry room. We will have another guest for Thanksgiving and I want the sheets to be fresh for them. Maybe I'm the only one that likes the fresh laundry smell though.

You don't have 5 minutes in the am, 5 minutes when you get home and ten minutes after dinner?

[Anonymous]

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...

[Anonymous]

A. As a guest I would definitely think I was helping you by stripping the bed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

OP here. Yes that's the issue. I just don't have time to do the laundry and put the sheets on the bed right now, so they've been sitting in the tiny laundry room. We will have another guest for Thanksgiving and I want the sheets to be fresh for them. Maybe I'm the only one that likes the fresh laundry smell though.

You could have started the load in the time you have been complaining.
It doesn't take long.

[Anonymous]

Dirty sheets start to smell after a while so I would strip and air out the bed, right away.