Guest room sheet etiquette poll

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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.

The point is that my guest is mandating that I must wash his dirty sheets RIGHT NOW and I can't do any other laundry until it's done. IMO the guests are wrong for forcing dirty laundry in my face.

Also, who lets their guests sleep in a bed that hasn't been washed for 6 months. Do you know how much dust has accumulated on that bed?

Wth? Your guest isn't "mandating" anything. If you don't wash to move the sheets yet, move them somewhere else and don't wash them. I can't believe this is that hard for you to figure out, something else must be bothering you.

Dust accumulates under the bed spread?

I don't use quilts or bedspreads. I don't even own any.

Your beds only get sheets? No blankets on top? How does that work in the winter?

[Anonymous]

OP, in the amount of time that it's taken you to complain on this thread, you could have opened the top of the washer, out the sheets in, thrown in soap and turned on the washer. For your time an hour later, you could have moved the sheets to the dryer. They'd already be either folded or back on the bed.

[Anonymous]

There are multiple people on this thread complaining about OP's issue and I'm one of them.

I don't like having dirty laundry shoved at me as my guest is leaving. I asked that they not do that and they do it every time. I do wash the towels frequently but washing sheets is done only a couple times a month (yes, I only change them every other week). The clothes are done at least twice a week. I do not have a place to put a pile of dirty sheets while I'm trying to take care of the clothes that have to be done that day.

I also do not use comforters or bedspreads. We have blankets only and I tend to put those away when not in use. It's not like the sheets on the bed have stains or anything. They've probably only been slept on two or three nights so they are hardly filthy. I use the sheets as a dust cover for the mattress until the next time a guest comes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, in the amount of time that it's taken you to complain on this thread, you could have opened the top of the washer, out the sheets in, thrown in soap and turned on the washer. For your time an hour later, you could have moved the sheets to the dryer. They'd already be either folded or back on the bed.

EXACTLY! I am not understanding this at all. In the time it would take to put them back on the bed or fold them and hide them somewhere in the guest room or donate them to Goodwill you could have simply WASHED them.

If you had one or two loads that HAD to go first, fine. Toss the sheets on the floor, do your priority loads and THEN wash the sheets. Go to bed, wake up, toss them in the dryer. Go to work, come home, fold and store. Altogether, it's about 5 minutes of your life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, in the amount of time that it's taken you to complain on this thread, you could have opened the top of the washer, out the sheets in, thrown in soap and turned on the washer. For your time an hour later, you could have moved the sheets to the dryer. They'd already be either folded or back on the bed.

Actually, my FIL rolls the mass of linens into a tight ball that takes a good amount of wrestling to pull apart. Then I have to remove the mattress pad that isn't supposed to be removed from the bed but it is. It's a lot of work when I have 5 other loads of laundry that need to be done first.

[Anonymous]

Why can't the freaking rude guests just leave the sheets on the bed like I asked them to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why can't the freaking rude guests just leave the sheets on the bed like I asked them to?

I know it's early, but you sound like you could use a drink.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are multiple people on this thread complaining about OP's issue and I'm one of them.

I don't like having dirty laundry shoved at me as my guest is leaving. I asked that they not do that and they do it every time. I do wash the towels frequently but washing sheets is done only a couple times a month (yes, I only change them every other week). The clothes are done at least twice a week. I do not have a place to put a pile of dirty sheets while I'm trying to take care of the clothes that have to be done that day.

I also do not use comforters or bedspreads. We have blankets only and I tend to put those away when not in use. It's not like the sheets on the bed have stains or anything. They've probably only been slept on two or three nights so they are hardly filthy. I use the sheets as a dust cover for the mattress until the next time a guest comes.

So put them back on the fucking bed, then wash them another time when it's not so stressful for you.

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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.

The point is that my guest is mandating that I must wash his dirty sheets RIGHT NOW and I can't do any other laundry until it's done. IMO the guests are wrong for forcing dirty laundry in my face.

Also, who lets their guests sleep in a bed that hasn't been washed for 6 months. Do you know how much dust has accumulated on that bed?

Wth? Your guest isn't "mandating" anything. If you don't wash to move the sheets yet, move them somewhere else and don't wash them. I can't believe this is that hard for you to figure out, something else must be bothering you.

There is no place in the house to store dirty sheets. I usually just keep them on the bed until they need to be washed. If they are stuffed in the laundry closet, I can't do other laundry until they are either washed or tossed on the floor in the middle of a room. The other laundry takes a very high priority over sheets that nobody cares about.

So put them back on the bed.

It must be stressful being you.

[Anonymous]

Also, sheets get body oils on them. If you leave them to sit without washing them, that's how you get those weird brown/discolored stains on them that don't come out.

I'm a single mom with a full time job and 100% custody and a toddler. As long as the washer is in your house/unit it is just not such a huge deal to run a load of laundry. And if you need to run multiple loads each day, you either overwash all your items or go buy more backups so you aren't washing clothes the same day you wear them in order to have clothes the next day.

[Anonymous]

This is what I love about DCUM. When the world is going to hell in a handbasket, I can count on you for 7 pages of breathless debate about Guest Sheet Protocol.

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Anonymous wrote:This is what I love about DCUM. When the world is going to hell in a handbasket, I can count on you for 7 pages of breathless debate about Guest Sheet Protocol.

It's much more fun than worrying about the other thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

So pick up the pillows and comforter. Put them on the bed so they don't get *gasp* wrinkled. Then wash the sheets when you feel like it.

[Anonymous]

The OP and the one or two posters who are up in arms about guests having the audacity to do something polite like strip their beds sound surprisingly helpless for people who are so neurotic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, sheets get body oils on them. If you leave them to sit without washing them, that's how you get those weird brown/discolored stains on them that don't come out.

I'm a single mom with a full time job and 100% custody and a toddler. As long as the washer is in your house/unit it is just not such a huge deal to run a load of laundry. And if you need to run multiple loads each day, you either overwash all your items or go buy more backups so you aren't washing clothes the same day you wear them in order to have clothes the next day.

I only wash the sheets once a month and I've never seen brown stains on anything. And all the sheets are light colors so I think I'd notice if there were.