TIL: The average single male changes his sheets just four times a year.

www.cbc.ca /news/world/single-men-swap-bed-sheets-4-times-a-year-study-suggests-1.1321335

Watch out ladies, the man of your dreams may have the bed of your nightmares.

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I didn't even know that was a thing until recently. I thought the bedsheets just stayed until you moved
- broooooo
- this is the way
"average person changes sheets 4 times a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person changes sheets 25 times per year. Sheets Georg, who lives in cave & changes sheets never, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
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- Ugh!
That's fucking gross
Average is not a good measure for the behavior of a population. Would have liked to have seen median.
Can absolutely confirm.
Holy shit, that’s basically once per season. I feel bad if I go a month. And in the summer, two weeks feels like a lot.
Sounds about right
Dude! Change your sheets! Today!
Yeah, it's a thing. I make it a point to wash my partner's sheets before his other partner comes to visit, because I like her and my partner has a blind spot when it comes to sheets. It doesn't help that he has strong preferences for sheet texture and, while he has multiple sets of sheets, only one set is top tier.

Also, shout-out to sleeping in a hammock: I can just wash my whole bed.
- Your life sounds more complicated than mine but good looking out. :)
Don't they stink after a while?
I have to change mine weekly. bad bedbug infestation in my neighborhood. Dirty sheets attract them.
I shower before bed. I like to sleep clean.

They only get dirty when I sweat or have sex on them. I sweat in bed maybe twice a year.

Why change them more often?
- Bruh you still shed skin cells and oils, and bacteria that lives on your body will be multiplying like crazy all over your bed.
  
  oh goddammit. gross.
  
  now i HAVE TO change them.
- If nothing else you are constantly shedding skin and I assume farting from time to time. That adds up.
  
  Never underestimate the farting
- I do the same thing. Still wash it at least twice a month.
- I do the same. I change my sheets 2-4 times a month. BTW... I don't sweat in my sleep 😏
- I think I remember reading somewhere that if you shower at night then you can get away with changing your sheets for a considerable amount of time longer but it was like 3 weeks vs. 1 week.
  
  At least that's how I live my life and I think I'm fairly clean.
When I was single I had a lot more time and I like a clean bed. Washed everything twice a week.

Now that I am married, once a week.
I'd like to see the distribution. I'd bet the times a year and ~50 times a year are more common than 4 times a year.
Sound about right. It might even be less for for me LOL
- its weird how proud you are of how gross you are, bro.
  
  I wouldn’t call it being proud. It just doesn’t smell bad, and I usually don’t care to do things because that’s how it’s supposed to be done, so why should I change the sheet more often?
  
  Why do you change it more often? Does yours smell bad?
Edit: tried to delete comment when I found out this was posted by a bot. I can't seem to find a way to delete a comment. wtf?
Yuck...

Come on fellas we need to pump these numbers up
- Instructions unclear, changing bed twice a year.

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