I’ve saved hundreds by never washing my bed sheets – people say I’m gross, I don’t care
HOW often do you wash your bed sheets?
Most of us can’t go a week without fresh linen, but veterinary nurse and artist Klaudia Wójcik says her thrifty once-a-month method has saved her a fortune.
Klaudia, 27, who lives with her fiance Ben in Worthing, West Sussex, says she’s slammed for waiting four weeks between cleaning her sheets - and she does them on a cold wash.
Even her mum says she’s filthy, but she couldn’t care less.
“I always felt gross leaving them longer than a fortnight. The thought of all that sweat and build-up of dead skin gave me shivers,” she confesses.
“Then the cost of living crisis hit us hard and our electricity bill skyrocketed to over £150 a month. We were spending a fortune keeping our 300 exotic plants healthy with heat and special lighting. We couldn’t let them die, so something else had to give.”
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Klaudia’s washing machine was eating up her hard-earned cash, and she’d had enough.
“I thought ‘why am I changing my sheets so often?’ We’d have to make do with once a month and turn the temperature right down to 30 degrees.
“At first it felt so gross. I became obsessed with sniffing the sheets each night to make sure I could still smell the washing powder, and I got so paranoid about sweating in the night - what if it made the bed stink?”
While Klaudia’s worries were outweighed by her cash-saving hopes, her mum was outraged.
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“Mum was mortified when she found out about our new habit. She said I was disgusting and a cold wash would never clean the sheets, but they weren’t filthy or stained - they just needed a freshen up. As long as they smelt nice, I wasn’t worried.”
The savvy lady has even come up with a few hacks to make the sheets smell fresher for longer.
First, she bought a bed throw to protect the sheets from dust and other dirt during the day.
Then she enforced a few strict rules.
I became obsessed with sniffing the sheets each night to make sure I could still smell the washing powder
Klaudia Wójcik
“The first was ‘only pyjamas allowed in bed’. My fiance Ben was pretty annoyed, but he had to stop lounging on the bed in his dirty jeans and trainers. Who knows what he was wiping on the sheets.
“The second rule affected Unsteady Eddie, our three-legged dog. He’d always had free reign of the bed and rolled all over it when he pleased. But those mucky paws are now banned.
“Finally, on dry days I hang the sheets outside to air them out. It keeps them much fresher for longer and after a good air, it feels like lying on freshly-washed linen.”
Klaudia says trolls can call her filthy if they want to, but she doesn’t care - her bills have been slashed so it’s a sacrifice she can live with.
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“I’ll spot clean stains between washes and as long as I can still smell laundry powder on my sheets, I think they’re fine. I know I’m a clean person.
“My hacks have made me less stressed about smelly, sweaty sheets and they’re saving me hundreds of pounds a year. I won’t ever change.”
