My pillows have pillow covers, allergy cases and pillow cases. I don't wash them. I'd be worried about not getting them dry enough and weird stuff growing in them. I do replace them every couple years.
I used to wash our regular pillows every six months or so, but now we have memory foam. I get kinda grossed out when I think about it, but I use a pillow cover and a pillow case, so I think we're okay. I was the throw pillows on our couch every three or four months.
Post by MixedBerryJam on Apr 20, 2015 6:31:43 GMT -5
I've tried washing pillows. I've tried cheap pillows, expensive pillows and everything in between. No matter how I do it, they end up lumpy and the corners get mushed in and my head never sits right again. So now I just buy the cheapest pillows I can finds and toss old ones. They probably last a year or so. I keep them in a zipped pillow cover, though.
I really wish people would stop writing articles about how dirty things are. We live in a world full of dirt and poop and pollen and bugs. I think you can assume that everything around you has dirt and poop particles on it no matter how much you clean. Just accept that fact and move on with life.
I have down pillows and wash them probably once a year. I wash the covers about every month or two. I fluff mine with an old tennis shoes of DS's wrapped in an old sock. It works better than tennis balls. Company Store sells fluffer rings.
You can also dry clean pillows. DS has terrible allergies- he gets cheap pillows I can toss each fall.
Every couple of months. And yes, I've used tennis balls in the dryer before but it doesn't really seem to make much difference whether or not I use them.
I have only washed the actual pillows when someone has puked on them (cat or kid, not me, lol) and honestly they never recover the right level of fluffiness after washing.
I have pillows I bought when I moved here 7 months ago. I read I should wash them twice a year. I am already behind, damnit. So I read you should dry them with tennis balls to reduce the dry time and keep them fluffy.
Tomorrow I am buying tennis balls because I am clearly a rule follower.
How often do you wash your pillows? Have you used tennis balls to dry them?
I am a sheep
I just started using wool drying balls and I like them.