Dirty truth about Brits and their sheets. News.com.au.
A U.K. study has shown half a million Brits only wash their sheets three times a year, mX reported.
What?!?!
One in six people also owned up to waiting at least four weeks before washing their bed sheets. Londoners are the worst culprits with a quarter of those polled leaving it at least a month before washing their bed linen, the insurance firm survey found.
A month of grime and smears on the bed sheets. But wait. What about the pillow?
“It’s estimated that 10 per cent of the weight of a two-year-old pillow is comprised of dead skin and dust mites,” said expert Dr Lisa Ackerley.
Oh, yum. Imagine a pick-up line for the bar. “Excuse me, how would you like to come over to my place and mix it up on the dead skin cells and grime (and other assorted goodies) on my sheets and pillows tonight?”
See:
I’ll have to show that to my son who just recently decided that he will take his European studies program in Sweden instead of the original plan to go to England. I’m sure he’ll be pleased over his choice!
Of course, I have to wonder how often he’s cleaning the sheets on his bed in the dorm. I have to tell him every time he comes home to strip the bed and bring the sheets home. He usually comes home about every three weeks, so I imagine that’s about the only time he’s washing them. Gross.
Not to worry Nunly, there is still time and hope for the youth.
For the mature, well, peer pressure?