when we're not using linen, we're using percale. Percale feels soooooooooooooooooo good.

Larsi did you take the sheets out slightly damp? Seriously this makes a huge difference ironing them. Even the bottom sheet can be put on the bed just very slightly damp than smooth with hands wait an hour before making bed and it will be dry. I am jelly, I have my percales packed in bins out in the shed, I may have to dig them out for a hot wash and a hotter iron with a few spritzs of Rocs linen spray.

Larsi your bed looks comfy.

Roc, so neat and orginized.

Love these pics.

LeBlanc effect..cute Roc.

Its no secret that I also like LeBlanc, however it should be noted that its not a heavy duty detergent, it will do fine on lightly soiled sheets and if you shower in the evening rather than the morning, and on sheets that are changed at least weekly. This isn't a detergent I would choose though if you sweat at night or if you have a active *** life.

It just doesn't have the concentrated surfactants to deal with more than light soils. JMO

@mamapinky - No ingredients listed for Le Blanc that I've seen. Don't know how they get away with that. Wonder what it is that does the conditioning.

IMO Sheets should be changed weekly if anyone has that as a question. Used to change ours twice a week but the sheets wore out pretty fast.

Percale sheets felt AMAZING, I will admit. They were odd though, so contradictory! They were at crisp, yet smooth. Felt more rigid than I am used to, but within a few hours and with body heat and moving around....they got soft and almost felt silky. I do not honestly feel that they felt any cooler than my 100% cotton wrinkle free sheets, but these Percale sheets were by no means warm. I was comfortable the entire night.

I would honestly enjoy having more, but I just cannot and will not invest more time with ironing. I have 4 sets of sheets, and I will wash these Percale next week and iron them (I change sheets every Fri or Sat)..but I will not use them for about a month or so. I almost love them, but knowing what they will involve is a real downer!!

Roc, I also never found a ing. List for the LaBlanc. By law they only need to list toxic or suspected toxic ingredients. So we can basically figure out this is made up of water and a mild surfactant. Because it doesn't contain a bunch of harsh chemicals the fabric won't suffer from it and will feel conditioned. If you have ever used a BOL liquid detergent such as Purex liquid you would most likely find the sheets to have this same conditioned feel to them because the harsher ingredients are absent, as is sodium carbonate which is part of powders. I can almost bet Roc you have never used a BOL liquid detergent. .LOL.

larsi - I see a Miele mangle, for the sheets, in your future.

I thought the SOP was:

If you shower before bed, change sheets every 5 days. If you shower in AM, change sheets every 3 days.

That's about right in my minds eye. I mostly shower in the evenings unless I have an appt. and I hop in in the AM I wash the bedding in my house just about every 4 days except my daughters which is done daily and mine every couple days. I'm not saying this is what should be done in every household as its unrealistic to be laundering bedding so often in most households but I've always had a sort of sickness so to speak with bedding, I'm sure once a week is fine for most people unless they sweat or go to bed un-bathed. And the showering at night isn't just to remove soils but to remove the shedding skin that eill otherwise end up on the sheets. Yes people, I know I think too much and make more work for myself. But its true, you really can't teach an old dog new tricks. Lol.

@mamapinky -- Worse, worse! I don't even know what a BOL liquid is and I have never heard of it. Never have used Purex either. No idea if I could stand the fragrance.

BTW Purex is a Persil cousin. I believe that American Persil is made in the Purex factory.

Lol Roc..I suspected as much and yep Purex is a Henkel product. BOL stands for bottom of the line..and in your case Roc is probably all US detergents that you have never heard of lol. Roc..just stick to what works for you..you don't need to start experimenting...you already know what works best for you...as do the rest of us, but we have so much more of the cray cray factor than you do when it comes to detergent. Notice I said when it comes to detergent Roc lol...you arnt completely off the hook..you do color code cleaning rags after all. LOL

OMG duuuhhhh as I always say. How could I not get that. I only used Tide HE powder until I started reading here. Would never have known about any of the others without reading about them here first. Laundry forum contagion!

I'm not going to start experimenting and it's not because I have no interest in it. Just keep telling myself streamline, streamline so I have time to breathe. One day I will retire but then I have my furniture painting projects. I'm also a paint nut. Too many outside interests LOL.

Interests are good Roc, they are what will keep you going 30 years from now when you hit middle age. Shush, don't even say it..your still young and spry.

I thought about your color coded cleaning rags Roc and it hit me ..mine are color coded also..all white. Haha...joking aside though I love how orginized you are.

@mamapinky - you would have loved my Mom. No one had a house that was cleaner, more orderly or more intelligently organized. When we get together we howl about how we had to take towels from the bottom of the pile (so they were always properly rotated). I never thought any of that would stick. I never thought about it at all. But now, in my late 20s, it's all kicking in.

I caught another dishtowel yesterday. Honestly don't know why we cannot have this type of towel here. Maybe I should go into business making them.

Roc, my mother was like yours, imacculate organization..even in her dish pan, she always hand washed dishes and after rinsing in hot water she put the silverware all in the hot soapy dishwater on the right hand side all facing the same direction and heaven forbid anyone put a fork or something in in the wrong direction. She also had us as kids remove our towels from the bottom, very carefully so as not to disturb the neatness of the upper towels. She vacumed the carpeted living room daily but she liked the lines the vacume sweeper made on the carpet and got rather irritated when someone walked over her freshly lined carpet..we used to joke we needed a hover board, even before hover boards were heard of. I find myself often thinking of my mother when I do something the way she did and I think oh my I've turned into the greatest woman that ever lived...lol.

I try hard to have a clean well orginized home, but its not perfect and never will be LOL.

Roc I would love to see you open a textile business, what beauty and perfect linen you would produce. Towels by Rococogurl!!!

Now you see....y'all are doing it wrong. You take newest towels from the TOP. When I wash and fold towels, I put the newest on the bottom, and then you just naturally take from the top. Perfect rotation, and no worries about tipping anything over or toppling!

Stick with me Chickens. Larsi will teach you!! ;)

Actually Larsi I do it the same way you do. Switched it around. My mother might not approve but I'm in less of a hurry when I put things away than when I need something.

But it's funny how that kind of thing comes up. When my sister passed I spent a few days with my brothers and all the Mom stuff came up including the "take from the bottom" on the towels.

Yes, I need another project @mamapinky LOL!