Guest room/guest bed - linens on or off between guests? - Page 2

[sunnysandiegan]

Originally Posted by ChristyMarie

AAACK! But then what if someone ends up staying over unexpectedly and you have to make up the bed? Then it isn't ready. Or what if you forget because you usually don't do it that way and send a guest in with no linens?

No no no, I have way too many issues to go that route.

It is all a matter of what habits you have. We have to rearrange beds and such before a guest sleeps over, so it is habit to change sheets at that time. All of our sheets are fresh, so it is a simple five minute job to make up the bed -- nothing fancy or complicated.

[greenmansions]

I strip the bed and wash the linens, blankets too if someone stayed awhile or were not close family. It creeps me out to leave dirty linens on the bed. (I wonder why that doesn't motivate me to wash our own linens more often...)

I remake the bed unless it's a case where we've moved furniture and futons around to accomodate people and they're just going to get piled up again. If the bed will stay set up, then I make it. I will rewash or change pillowcases if it's a long time between guests, and will shake out/change the blankets and freshen things up. I just don't want it to be dusty from sitting there for 6 or more months. I also might wash everything again if the kids have been playing in the bed a lot.

ETA If I have for example my mom for one night, and then my sister for one night I will only change the pillowcases and not the sheets. But if it is not for such a close relationship, I wash everything even if the guest was only there for one night. But I always change the pillowcases between people. And in the case of my mom/sister we discussed it, so I know it is OK.

[Llyra]

I always strip the linens after somebody stays over. Then I wash them and put clean ones on. If they've been on a really long time, then when somebody's going to sleep in the bed I'll change the sheets to fresh ones for them.

My guest bed doubles as a daybed. The kids and cats spend time in there. I like to have sheets on the bed all the time, as an added layer between the mattress and potential messes.

[seashells]

Well, I'm weird. I sleep in the guest room. DH sleeps in the master bedroom. So when guests come, I put all new bedding on for them and move into the master bedroom. When they leave, more often than not, I just sleep in their sheets. Guests are VERY infrequent and they are always either my parents and DH's parents, and I'm not squicked out about sleeping in a bed they slept in once or twice.

So, the guest room sheets are not always fresh... but they are always fresh for guests

[Ruthla]

I don't currently have a guest room, but I voted for what we did when we had one.

I'd strip off the dirty linens after a guest left, and either wash and put them back on within a day or so, or I'd put on a fresh set of linens immediately (before walking out of the room with the dirty linens) and then go wash the dirties and put them away. Leaving an unmade bed with kids in the house is impractical- they're likely to play in there and I don't want the bed to get ruined. If necessary, I'd put on fresh linens again before guest sleeps over, even if they were changed right after the last guest left.

It's easier to have the bed made up and ready for the next guest rather than having to scramble to get everything ready before somebody comes. Even if the kids kinda messed up the guest bed, it's still cleaner than it was after the last guest slept on it, and I don't HAVE TO change the sheets if the guest isn't fussy.

[hottmama]

Other-- Our guest bed is a futon in the living room, so after guests leave I wash the linens and put them up and the futon resumes its life as a couch.

[Delicateflower]

I leave it made up because it's our only double sheet and I hate getting it mixed up with the queen sized ones.