I love clean sheets day.
In my old if-I-were-rich fantasies I would have the bedsheets changed daily and a fresh white linen nightdress folded on the pillow for me to slip into every night. Anyhow, I was reminded of that last night as I got into lovely clean sun-dried sheets after a long hot day – it felt soooo good. And now, two questions for you…
- when is your clean sheets day?
- what is one of your if-I-were-rich fantasies?
[photo from my Tangier album]
casa azahar 
1. More or less every week on the day when my hands are up to tackling the wrestle with the mattress and the comforters. (They get tired.)
2. Fantasy: I can afford to replace my 20 year old car if I have to, and I don’t have to show up anywhere on schedule. Anything else is gratuitous.
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Sunday.
That’s funny, Az – clean, sun-dried sheets are also my #1 if-I-were-rich fantasy. Someone else has to put them on and do the laundry, of course. # 2 is a live-in masseuse.
My mom has always said she would have someone come in and do her hair every morning if she had money to burn.
Different strokes …
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Wasn’t sure what mine was…but one of the things I would want is to have my hair done by someone else. Or just washed in a hairdresser’s sink by someone else. Love that!
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If I had money to burn, I’d have a maid. 😉
And I’d do what I wanted, when I wanted to do it.
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Sounds good to me. 🙂
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Being able to do laundry, period, would be a blessing. The taps aren’t working and no one from Maintenance has come by to fix them, yet… I have to wash what I can by hand. There isn’t even a laundromat around here that I can find.
I worked in a hotel and we did sheets on Mondays and Thursdays (and after a check-out). After washing and folding other people’s bedding by the hundreds, I don’t do my own every week.
What I like most is getting into bed with freshly washed feet, Even if I had a shower earlier and haven’t done anything, I like to wash my feet before getting into bed. My feet feel wonderful.
If I were rich, I would buy my co-op and make my own damn rules up… Including banning the mother of my neighbour from the property. Cats could do what they liked. If you don’t want them messing in your yard, put up stuff to keep them out. No skateboarding after 10pm. Use your “inside voice” after 1 am…. No Goddamn blinking, moving lawn decorations in the form of deer or angels and no *&$^ing inflatable Christmas decorations. And mind your own business…
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My clean sheets day is Sunday. And I’m lucky that, living here in Sydney, I can usually dry them on the balcony in the sunshine all year round (it just takes a bit longer in the winter, and occasionally it rains so I have to air them indoors).
My ‘If I were rich’ fantasy used to be that I’d take black cabs everywhere so I didn’t have to drive. But now I feel a bit eco-guilty about that, so either the cab would have to run on hydrogen fuel and have nothing but water as its waste product, or maybe I’d have a horse and carriage (and a driver and a groom – I don’t want to waste time mucking out the stable!).
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LOVE the new avatar. Ha.
I’d want a vintage British racing green Jag with a driver.
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A hydrogen-powered car is non-polluting at point of use, but the hydrogen probably came from hydrolysis of water, which takes a lot of energy. And it’s stored in a fuel cell, made of rare metals mined in an environmentally-damaging way.
Life’s complicated.
TRiG.
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Sheets – weekend when I feel up for it. We have a huge bed and a corresponding size duvet so flipping that thing up and down and sideways and inside out takes some doing, while DT stands there and helplessly tries to assist.
If I were rich. Space. Lots of space. And a view – I really really miss mountains and seas and views. And a pool.
I’m not really the type to want a private hairdresser or a stand-by manicurist or flowers every day. If you said a new book, by my favourite authors (they’d get to swap) every day, that would be cool!
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My clean sheets day is Monday. And I am very glad that it’s summer and there is no duvel to wrestle with, at least until October (the *only* downside to having enormous bed).
My if-I-were-rich fantasy these days is mostly about travelling, and having a nice comfortable home without worrying about making ends meet.
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Solve the large duvet problem…on our first anniversary, hubby and I stayed in a very nice hotel. We were upgraded to the top floor, best view, king-sized bed. And the bed had 2 twin duvets…a very good thing for many reasons. (1) easier to change the covers, (2) no chance of bedclothes-theft by the other person, and (3) two people can sleep at different temperatures — that’s what we do now on our big bed. I change out my duvet for a heavier/warmer one earlier (and then later) than hubby does, because I like to sleep warmer.
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A very good idea if you share your king-size bed with someone else, but I just share with the cats. In fact, I use a double-bed sized duvet, which comes to the edges of my bed (I stay in the middle) and that’s still too much to fight with.
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Our clean sheets day is whenever I get around to it. Since I wash sheets from massage on an almost daily basis, the ones on our bed get done about every 7 to 10 days. Both of us shower before bed time on a regular basis, so they don’t get too terrible. Our sheets are dried out on the line in the summer, in the winter I have to use the clothes dryer or my whole house would wind up draped in linens.
My if I was rich fantasy is two fold. One, I would buy the ten acres that is behind us from the owner of the Red Fox. I would have that haven for meth heads razed, and in its place I would have a very nice restaurant built. The area behind the restaurant would be made into a small bird/wildlife preserve, complete with paths and a pond. Since money is no object, I would have the whole ten acres restored to a prairie. At the same time, I would have this house torn down and rebuilt with a full basement that included a beer/wine brewing area, a root cellar and wine cellar built into the earth, and a nice sun room on the east side of the house. There would be passive solar heating and a set of solar collectors to the south of the house. There would not be a single carpet in the new house, it would be all hard woods and tiles, with in-floor radiant heat installed under them.
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I like that fantasy so much I may steal most of it.
Is there anything like our common profession to make one an expert in sheetology? And wholesome laundry detergents?
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Sheets every Saturday. Or perhaps Sunday. Or Friday if I’m going away that evening and staying away for the weekend. And always strip the bed in the morning and leave the mattress exposed to breathe until I need to get into it again (which means I’m often trying to cover a quilt when I’m exhausted and just want to fall into bed, but I can cope with that).
My rich fantasies are also about travel, mainly. And a house of my own.
TRiG.
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