What's the longest you've gone before changing your sheets?

I wear one of daniel's old t-shirts if I dye my hair. And wait till it drys - mostly - I have stained a few pillowcases in my time! I don't change ours as often as we should. Even after Anatomy and Physiology class where my teacher Traci told us whats in our sheets that we can't actually see. Actually what's yuckier is whats on hotel sheets - especially the comforter which just isn't cleaned as often. You don't have allergies do you?

Nope, No allergies for Gemila =D Yeah, the thought of hotel sheets would make me slightly nauseous if I ever let myself think about it =P The comment below: Alex's bed has always smelt like him, because I don't know how long it was since it had been washed when I first moved in. Probably a few times in the years we've been friends =P I love the smell of it, it feels comfortable and safe. When Frankie, my best friend, comes around, she always snuggles into my pillow because it smells like me. (I suppose this relates to giving up your sense of smell for world Peace. thinking about it now, it would be damn hard)

Aw I love that middle paragraph, very sweet.

you just grossed me out there. ^.^;; i think i've read that somewhere. and i didnt do anything at all too. LOL those are just huge information for over-acting, paranoid, OC people who thinks they are super-clean but in fact, they arent. ^__^;; and i've learned from others' experiences that too much cleanliness can hurt too. but hey, for my peace of mind, i'll shorten that 3-4 months to 1-2 months. LOL

I've heard that too much cleanliness has a negative effect as well. A lot of kids are getting so protected, with antibacterial hand soap and such that their immune systems never learn to fight things off and in fact these hand soaps and lotions take off good bacteria. The best thing is good old fashioned soap. I don't do all that and very very rarely get sick. I got a cold in 2005 but it was after an infiltration I received from donating blood, I think that my immune system was down. On the other side of the coin, I've seen grown women - some of whom were research lab workers, use the bathroom - for one and two and NOT wash their hands. At school there were medical lab students as well and they did swabs of doorknobs and key board and eww if there wasn't the yuckiest things on them, feces, strep, semen. Yucksters.

I can go awhile as well. But if you think your sheets are clean think again, lots of critters and such will take up residence in the sheets of even the cleanest person...dust mites for instance, like to take up residence in bedding just inches from your mouth and nose as you sleep. What article notes that A dust mite is actually a mite that lives inside of the dust that is found within your home and that humans can easily inhale the dust mites’ feces. It is interesting to note that there are approximately 40,000 dust mites per speck of dust.This usually includes warm, humid places such as beds, carpets, and upholstered furniture. These mites also live on the skin cells that people and their pets shed, and deposit their waste in all of the areas in which they gather. With this in mind, you can easily imagine just how many dust mite stools enter into your respiratory tract. Nice huh? I learned yuckier things in anatomy and physiology class - including the nice things found in hotel rooms and on doorknobs and keyboards at an office. Does this knowledge make me wash my sheets more than once every three or four weeks? Nope. http://www.cfs-recovery.org/airborne.htm Apparently even acne is helped with clean sheets - look here: http://blog.worldvillage.com/family/change_your_pillowcase_to_stop_acne.html

Okay raijin - vacations don't count - and you can change them when you return!

I don't see that as counting. :) There's nothing like snuggling into soft soft fresh smelling sheets!