Knowledge is Power

Saturday there was an article on Yahoo's front page about how often you should change your sheets.

You know this must have had a huge impact on me as I'm still thinking about it today. I hate to change the sheets on my bed. I always have and I always will so the things I am about to say may be shocking and offensive to the faint of heart.

Consider yourself warned.

6 and I have a king sized Craftmatic which means our beds are independent of one another. He tends to his side and I tend to mine... Until my side gets to sketchy and he can't stand it anymore because he's a neurotic germaphobe and he can no longer help himself and has to clean up my side because my filth starts infringing on his side. 6 has 300 count matching sheets. I have a stretched out jersey sheet. His sheets are properly matched and the top sheet is neatly tucked in all around. My sheets match the ham sandwich I had on Tuesday and I don't use a top sheet because my feet get tangled in a top sheet and when I'm sleeping I think I'm caught in a trap and a bear is going to eat me (the ham sandwich probably attracted the bear). He has a comforter that matches his sheets and he keeps another sheet over the comforter so it doesn't get dog hair on it. I use the dogs as blankets. Just kidding. Not really. I use blankets. Made of dog hair.  He sleeps laid out flat like he's in viewing position at the morgue. I have the head of my bed up and the foot of my bed up just a bit so I can sleep in the ditch part of the bed with my head facing away towards the window because I can't breathe used air. He has a neat and tidy bedside table with an alarm clock, a reading lamp and a doily so his water glass won't leave a ring. I have a half eaten bag of Cheetos on the floor and an alarm clock on whatever is high enough for me to see and reach. He makes his bed when he gets out of it at three in the morning. I throw my blanket on the floor or the dog when I get up. He sleeps in his undershorts with a pair of sweat pants and a t-shirt folded next to the bed so they're ready for him when he wakes up. I sleep in cotton muu-muus, a soft cotton non-under wire bra because I don't want to sag when I'm old and giant pair of cotton underpants because if there's ever a fire I don't want to be standing in the driveway without underpants on.

Ok, so now that you have our sleeping back story I'll tell you what I think about this sheet story I read. It said you should change your sheets at least once a week. I'm pretty sure 6 changes his that often, but I probably only change mine about once a month so obviously I need to step things up a notch. Before I married 6 I would change my sheets by putting a clean sheet over the old sheet and then when I ran out of sheets I would strip and wash them all at once and then start over again. Now that I have read this article I understand that is NOT how it should be done. I get that. So today I will change the sheets on my side of the bed, but this time I will put all my sheets on in the beginning and strip one off the top each week so that I am always sleeping on clean ones.

Strive to stay informed is what I always say.