WASH THE BEDDING SEPARATELY, DIANE!
Jesus fuck, you wonder why everything smells like mildew, it’s because they ball up in the wash and don’t rinse properly, and then they stay balled up and damp in the dryer.
Do you wash only a single fitted sheet or duvet cover at a time? Because the problem still happens when I wash my fitted sheet and normal sheets in the same load.
That can happen, but I find that if you separate the sheets as they are going in, and kind of scrunch up the fitted sheets and duvet covers so they don’t start wrapped around the flat sheets or blankets, then they are far less likely to ball up in the wash.
I had a roommate in college that would wrap his sheets in the fitted sheet (along with other laundry) and throw it all in like a package. His laundry always smelled like mildew.
This is the way ^
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Or just get some laundry bags. Its honestly so much easier to just shove the offending item in a bag, throw it all in the wash, then I don’t have to care about it until I take it out of the dryer. Come in handy for other items that love to ball up and evade washing.
I pick them out of the machine and put them into a dryer or set them out to dry. Seems to avoid part of this particular problem.
If we’re out here handing intructions, you preferably shouldn’t uses a dryer for your stuff anyway. It can damage them. Especially everything that’s supposed to be elastic.
But then again, I don’t always follow that rule. Some stuff with an elastic band I’ve put in a scorching hot dryer for close to a decade and it’s fine. Some garbage shit lose the elasticity after a year or so even though you’ve washed them at 30 and don’t ever put them into a dryer.
I pull them out of the dryer and use them to vigorously scrub my unwashed balls.
No more mildew smell!
I do that with laundry too. Just not my own
For me it’s the mattress cover.
“Come here young pillowcases, young sheets! Shelter yourselves from the storm inside my waterproof arms and I shall keep you dry and help you keep your hard-earned coating of dirt and saliva from washing away.”
And you don’t seem to understand…
A shame you seemed an honest man
And all the fears you hold so dear
Did you say Duvet?
AND YOU DON’T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND
A SHAME YOU SEEMED AN HONEST MAN
No matter where you go, everyone’s connected.
I have not seen anyone reference this song in at least 10 years and then in the last 2 days I’ve seen it referenced 5 times, twice in this thread. I love it, but it’s a bit of a weird coinky-dink xD
Thanks for reminding me to zip up the duvet cover next time I wash it, now if only there was an easy solution to the mattress cover doing the same thing…
Every time
sheets should be washed at 60°C, though.
I’m dumb and uninformed. Why? I never use hot because it can cause shrinkage. Is it sterilizing perhaps?
Growing up we did not have hot water. Very hot climate.
I’m wondering too, 60dg is not enough to sterilise AFAIK, that’d have to boil.
If I remember correctly, 60c is the temp that kills dust mites.
Soap will also do that
Sometimes, sometimes not. Depends on the machine and the particular sheet in question. For some machines, 40°C seems to do the job for mostly everything.
20C gang represent?
I don’t think I’ve ever washed stuff in 20C. 30C very frequently but not 20C.
20 is fine with biological detergent, but people can have adverse reactions. But over 60 is recommended for bedding, to sterilise the microbes that grow there.
What’s that in freedom units?
140 F(reedom)
NYT though says:
The best way to maintain good-looking sheets is to wash them in low-temperature cycles—cold water is ideal. Sometimes, though, you will need to use warmer wash cycles. We recommend using warm water to lift out tough stains, like coffee, because the heat helps loosen and lift out the stain. We also use hot water to disinfect bedding after an illness or potty-training accident, or to get rid of allergens like dust mites.
In Laundry, Mendelson suggests avoiding sheets that have fussy care instructions because of this: “Your everyday sheets, especially those on infants’ and children’s beds, should be easy to launder vigorously and should never require gentle or complicated treatment.”
That seems more like commenting about minimums and saying it’s good to have sheets that aren’t fussy. If anything, it seems like they recommend buying sheets that could handle being washed at 60C if needed.
All Ikea sheets can be washed at 60C. Washing at 60C is important for sanitary reasons to kill skin pathogens and mites.
You spend 30% of your life wrapped in the same 2 or so sets of fabric, often sharing with them with other people. They need to be disinfected to discourage diseases like fungal infections and scabies.
We don’t measure our washing machine temperature in freedom units in the US, our machines offer “Hot,” “Cold,” or somewhere in between
Dislike duvets with a passion. Just put a thin blanket on top of your comforter same thing.
NO.
That’s a bold statement
no, this is a bold statement.
I see what you did there 👀
:)
8-)
I guess you don’t have this problem then?
I would like to say I don’t but my wife loves them so I have no choice.
Shame I can’t summon Randy Feltface
Can I come too?
Count me in
Always with the bedding vorists
Just another thing that’s only exists as a problem for idiots. As said already: you wash bedding separately and at 60°C, which you don’t wash other clothes at. And few washing machines are big enough to effectively wash duvets with anything else.>!!<
The duvet cover, not the duvet. The duvet cover fits all good with a bunch of other things in most machines.
you wash bedding separately and at 60°C, which you don’t wash other clothes at.
I think all my socks and boxers say to wash them at 60. I think it’s a common temp for towels too, if you follow the tag. I mostly wash everything at 40 nowadays.
Idiot!! The tags are a trap for idiots!
I am an idiot when it comes to washing clothes so that does make sense. Unless I know better I just go with what the tag says.
Washing elastic clothes at 60C sounds like a bad time.
Washing sheets at 60C is important for sanitary reasons, though, it’s not worth it to try to save electricity by washing sheets below 60C. Clothes are normally washed at 30-40C, so they must be washed separately from sheets.
I think boxer and sock elastics are made of sterner stuff since they’re made to be washed at 60C and anecdotally they seem to take it without any issues with the elastics getting ruined. And I use them beyond what I think most would use them.
I don’t throw them into the dryer though. I fear that’d ruin them faster.
