Do you wash blankets/quilts between guests?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our beds have antique heirloom handmade quilts on the beds. Unless you were raised by heathens, you should know to fold those down to the foot of the bed and not sleep with them covering you. They are often more than 100 years old and can’t be washed in a machine. The blanket and sheets get washed each time they are used.

It never occurred to me that people would be so careless as to sleep on them!

I used to make beds like that but realized that most people weren’t raised with things like that when I found a houseguest wrapped up in a 120 year old quilt in front of the tv like it was a fleece blanket.

I adjust my bedding based on who’s staying over. For my mother, for example, who insists that face cleaner and water is too harsh on her skin, I use bedding that I’m about to donate, because she smears my sheets, pillowcases and blankets with makeup and mascara.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our beds have antique heirloom handmade quilts on the beds. Unless you were raised by heathens, you should know to fold those down to the foot of the bed and not sleep with them covering you. They are often more than 100 years old and can’t be washed in a machine. The blanket and sheets get washed each time they are used.

It never occurred to me that people would be so careless as to sleep on them!

You should remove them and provide a proper comforter.

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There is a comforter (I wash). Of course I shouldn’t remove the beautiful decor. Do you remove all the throw pillows because some guest might be stupid enough to sleep on them, when you have provided nice and even extra bed pillows with proper covers?

Yes, I do remove them now, after realizing that no one under 40 years old and no males seem to understand the difference between a bed pillow in a pillowcase, a sham, and a throw pillow. My guests seem to choose their sleeping arrangements by sorting through to find the least washable and most fragile item and wadding it up under their face all night. Lesson learned!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our beds have antique heirloom handmade quilts on the beds. Unless you were raised by heathens, you should know to fold those down to the foot of the bed and not sleep with them covering you. They are often more than 100 years old and can’t be washed in a machine. The blanket and sheets get washed each time they are used.

It never occurred to me that people would be so careless as to sleep on them!

Quilts on beds are for using as blankets. If you don't want them used, hang them on the wall.

- from a family of quilters

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our beds have antique heirloom handmade quilts on the beds. Unless you were raised by heathens, you should know to fold those down to the foot of the bed and not sleep with them covering you. They are often more than 100 years old and can’t be washed in a machine. The blanket and sheets get washed each time they are used.

It never occurred to me that people would be so careless as to sleep on them!

You should remove them and provide a proper comforter.

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There is a comforter (I wash). Of course I shouldn’t remove the beautiful decor. Do you remove all the throw pillows because some guest might be stupid enough to sleep on them, when you have provided nice and even extra bed pillows with proper covers?

You know the throw pillows end up on the floor, right? Wash your linens.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:News flash! Well unless you’re staying in a hotel with white duvet covers, they are not getting washed regularly…. Neither is the upholstered chair or throw pillows.

I'm not putting my unclothed body on the chair or throw pillows, nor is my face oil / drool on those. Beds get all of that, yes on blankets too.

I don't believe that no hotels wash covers (some dont, not all), and there is a trend toward duvets in hotels. At home I have duvets or light quilts that can launder and I expect the same on guest beds.

Sleeping nude is for your own home. Please bring pjs as a guest in my house and then you won’t mind the unwashed quilt and I won’t have to worry about your naked body leaving fluids to clean. Win-win!!

You don't have to be nude to have your skin directly touching the blanket while you sleep.
Plus people put their luggage, outdoor clothes, etc on the top cover of the bed. It needs to be washed. There is no excuse for not washing it.

[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)

+1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our beds have antique heirloom handmade quilts on the beds. Unless you were raised by heathens, you should know to fold those down to the foot of the bed and not sleep with them covering you. They are often more than 100 years old and can’t be washed in a machine. The blanket and sheets get washed each time they are used.

It never occurred to me that people would be so careless as to sleep on them!

You should remove them and provide a proper comforter.

.

There is a comforter (I wash). Of course I shouldn’t remove the beautiful decor. Do you remove all the throw pillows because some guest might be stupid enough to sleep on them, when you have provided nice and even extra bed pillows with proper covers?

My throw pillows aren’t antiques. Covering beds with quilts that are too precious to serve their actual function makes zero sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our beds have antique heirloom handmade quilts on the beds. Unless you were raised by heathens, you should know to fold those down to the foot of the bed and not sleep with them covering you. They are often more than 100 years old and can’t be washed in a machine. The blanket and sheets get washed each time they are used.

It never occurred to me that people would be so careless as to sleep on them!

I used to make beds like that but realized that most people weren’t raised with things like that when I found a houseguest wrapped up in a 120 year old quilt in front of the tv like it was a fleece blanket.

I adjust my bedding based on who’s staying over. For my mother, for example, who insists that face cleaner and water is too harsh on her skin, I use bedding that I’m about to donate, because she smears my sheets, pillowcases and blankets with makeup and mascara.

Isn’t that what the quilt is for?? Like I can see being mad if she put her shoes on it or something but it sounds like she was using it like a blanket because it’s a blanket?

[Anonymous]

Nope. I don’t wash anything except the sheets and pillow cases.

[Anonymous]

My friend cleans everything and then puts a sheet over the whole bed until the next guest visits. I clean sheets and duvet cover.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:News flash! Well unless you’re staying in a hotel with white duvet covers, they are not getting washed regularly…. Neither is the upholstered chair or throw pillows.

I'm not putting my unclothed body on the chair or throw pillows, nor is my face oil / drool on those. Beds get all of that, yes on blankets too.

I don't believe that no hotels wash covers (some dont, not all), and there is a trend toward duvets in hotels. At home I have duvets or light quilts that can launder and I expect the same on guest beds.

Sleeping nude is for your own home. Please bring pjs as a guest in my house and then you won’t mind the unwashed quilt and I won’t have to worry about your naked body leaving fluids to clean. Win-win!!

You don't have to be nude to have your skin directly touching the blanket while you sleep.
Plus people put their luggage, outdoor clothes, etc on the top cover of the bed. It needs to be washed. There is no excuse for not washing it.

What kind of monster puts their luggage and outdoor clothes on the comforter?!

I host clean people with common sense and manners who won’t taint my exterior bedding with such filth, therefore, no need to launder top covers btwn guests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My friend cleans everything and then puts a sheet over the whole bed until the next guest visits. I clean sheets and duvet cover.

I do that because otherwise items guaranteed that my dog will burst into the room and leap onto a freshly made bed.

If there’s a sheet on top of it, he’ll consider it but walk away in disgust.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:News flash! Well unless you’re staying in a hotel with white duvet covers, they are not getting washed regularly…. Neither is the upholstered chair or throw pillows.

I'm not putting my unclothed body on the chair or throw pillows, nor is my face oil / drool on those. Beds get all of that, yes on blankets too.

I don't believe that no hotels wash covers (some dont, not all), and there is a trend toward duvets in hotels. At home I have duvets or light quilts that can launder and I expect the same on guest beds.

Sleeping nude is for your own home. Please bring pjs as a guest in my house and then you won’t mind the unwashed quilt and I won’t have to worry about your naked body leaving fluids to clean. Win-win!!

You don't have to be nude to have your skin directly touching the blanket while you sleep.
Plus people put their luggage, outdoor clothes, etc on the top cover of the bed. It needs to be washed. There is no excuse for not washing it.

What kind of monster puts their luggage and outdoor clothes on the comforter?!

I host clean people with common sense and manners who won’t taint my exterior bedding with such filth, therefore, no need to launder top covers btwn guests.

I’ve hosted that sort of monster. It’s always the people you’d least expect and/or who are the most fastidious or controlling in their own home. My mother won’t bring a suitcase past her garage after a trip. And yet I could line the guest room with luggage racks and she will still go to the effort of lifting a suitcase with filthy wheels up onto my clean duvet cover.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our beds have antique heirloom handmade quilts on the beds. Unless you were raised by heathens, you should know to fold those down to the foot of the bed and not sleep with them covering you. They are often more than 100 years old and can’t be washed in a machine. The blanket and sheets get washed each time they are used.

It never occurred to me that people would be so careless as to sleep on them!

You should remove them and provide a proper comforter.

.

There is a comforter (I wash). Of course I shouldn’t remove the beautiful decor. Do you remove all the throw pillows because some guest might be stupid enough to sleep on them, when you have provided nice and even extra bed pillows with proper covers?

Yes, I do remove them now, after realizing that no one under 40 years old and no males seem to understand the difference between a bed pillow in a pillowcase, a sham, and a throw pillow. My guests seem to choose their sleeping arrangements by sorting through to find the least washable and most fragile item and wadding it up under their face all night. Lesson learned!

PP here…I have been hosting regularly for 20 years with the same quilts and it’s not an issue for me. Where do you all come up with these people? And why do you invite them in? lol. Condolences if you are related to them and have to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I put blanket and duvet in dryer on high heat with dryer sheets after guests for a short stay. For a week or more, I wash everything.

Same, or in dryer with wet clothes to sanitize duvet & blanket for short visits