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Schultz strikes me as being a short-haired hippie in a military uniform. He doesn't like guns, he likes beauty and he thinks war is crazy.

I think me and the alien deserve a lovely cup of tea after what we've been through

Ee aye addio we all pat the dog

All I've gotta do for the next few weeks is find myself a comfy position on the couch

My daughter's gonna love this

The wood pigeons are happy when it's the summer evenings

They sit in the tree outside my window

Cuckoo coo.

After some research, I found out the optimum time between washing bed sheets is 2 weeks. It's 1 week if you sweat, have pets that sleep in the bed or eat in bed.
I admit I don't wash my sheets as often as I should but this seems excessive???

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Where did you get the information?

Personally I don't think there's a neat, definitive answer to the question of how often to wash bedclothes. My own trial-and-error experience suggests it's a lot longer than they say it is, but maybe I'm taking a risk of something bad happening that I don't know about. Whatever it is, I don't think it's happened yet.

^^ I read a few links on the google result for "how often to wash bedsheets" they seem to have a consensus of every 2 weeks. Or more frequently depending, so I assumed that meant weekly.

This link I think provides a good explanation

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how- ... to%20sleep.

I personally believe it should be monthly, any longer is gross and any shorter is overwhelming.

How will I feel tomorrow? How will I feel on Wednesday?

Simple questions but very deep, the truth is we may never know how we feel in the future but we can make educated guesses and plan around it.

I see they list the criteria for changing them more often but they don't list the criteria for changing them less often. That makes me suspect that there's something a bit evangelical and partial going on. Here's the missing list of criteria for changing them less often:

You should consider changing your sheets less often if you:
* Don't have pets, or if you do, you don't let them get on the inner sheets or pillows
* Live in a cold climate or otherwise keep the bedroom cool (which is recommended for sleeping)
* Don't sweat much in bed
* Rarely have infections
* Wear pyjamas or similar bedwear, so as to cover most of your skin
* Easily feel overwhelmed with washing, drying and cleaning bedclothes, or simply hate doing it

And I think there's a lot in there that's designed to provoke an emotional yeuk factor and to shock people. Many things we mess with every day would look pretty disgusting through a microscope. Generally speaking I don't mind a bit of yeuk as such, it's the real harm risks that interest me more. And there's no indication of exactly how they calculated that optimum time of 2 weeks.

Also, if you read the article very carefully, you'll find this buried in there somewhere:

Ultimately, Dr. Vij says the risk of getting a bad bacterial infection under your skin is pretty low.

So your personal feeling that every month is frequent enough for you doesn't seem unreasonable to me. And I expect many people are getting away with leaving it longer than that without coming to any harm.

To give a bit of context, the modern trend is to run the wash cold. Our landlord's laundry room doesn't even provide hot water to the machines. Modern washing powders can help to mitigate the obvious problem of the reduced sanitising effect compared with the tradition hot wash, but I've read that the hot wash is still safer. We're surrounded by health risks but if we tried to fix them all we'd have no time for anything else. It's a matter of prioritising, if that's even possible.

expand comfort zone

zero sum game

margin of error

addictive personality

"i'm trying"

pathetic

disgusted

IHSS job

"don't be so useless"

failing to move forward is better than succeeding @ moving backward.

i've been wounded.

sometimes i feel like i'm dying.

everything is hard. exhausted all the times. struggling to stay awake. failing to fall asleep. (emotional over)eating. Litterbox. talking. and they are not even academic subjects.

every slightest movement takes the greatest amount of energy.

surreal

outnumbered overpowered outsmarted

i feel like im on the brink of a great adventure!

I have different rules for different items of bedding

Pillowcase and fitted sheet defo has to go in for a longer wash on a higher temperature
But duvet cover I can easy do on a 30° wash
But I only have a single bed so it's more easier
I reckon I do mine once a month but to be fair I think for the pillow cases and bottom sheet it should be more often