The discomfort I feel at the thought of sleeping on a bare matress ensures that I will put the sheet on. Of course, only just before going to sleep when I want to do nothing more but flop onto my bed after staying up too long again

Emphatically wrong! Sleeping on a bare mattress is crazy. I just use the couch like I do many nights anyway.

have two sheets, put the new one on right after taking the old one off. put the old one in the laundry pile and wash it with your clothes.

Or...now hear me out...get a 2nd set of sheets. Straight swap. One on...one off. Then you can forget about the "off" set, until it's time to change the sheets again.

Put the old sheet in the doorway. Now you can't leave the room until you are done because the doorway is blocked.

JRPG rules FTW!

Own more than one set? I have 3 so I can just swap it out and afford to forget to wash the other one for a week

This is why we have two sets and I have a day just for doing the sheets. Sheets off, pillows off, into washing machine, grab the clean sheets from the pile. Sheets do not get folded, that's a nightmare. There's just a pile of clean clothes. And the sheets. There's also like fifty pillow covers they just accumulated somehow.

Have two beds. Clean and remake one when sleeping on the other. Don't switch until other one is clean.

Thank you for seeing me.

I find it best to do it as a side-to-do from the main one to minimise the chance of even getting focused on it (the tricky part of that is being ok/not get discouraged with letting the sheets sit in the washer or dryer for hours bcs now the process is inefficient & I can do better, I mean I obviously can't, but theoretically).

I also have a few extra beddings to "just change the sheets" or even just to focus my mind on different materials. It helps sometimes.

And the overwhelming urge to take a nap before the dryer is done rocking.

I eventually got a second bed set just to help me out on that front

But unfortunately they've got a different thread count so they have a different skin feel then the old ones so I absolutely can't mix the sheets with the other ones because the difference is too jarring

I've been sleeping on a blanket for a while now, come to think of it...

I have two sets of sheets. Adapt and overcome.

I tell my spouse I can change the sheets in seconds, and pre-swap the sheets to accomplish it. This makes it a “fun” thing, that my brain is more than happy to focus on because it’s “fun”. It also happens with just the right frequency that it doesn’t become boring.

However, if my spouse ever found out the trick (or told me they did) the magic would be lost.

I've heard you can minimize risk by having multiple fitted sheets on your bed at once. Just strip off the top sheet, add to laundry hamper, sleep on the newly revealed clean sheet.

I don't do that because I don't use sheets. I sleep in a hammock and just swap between two hammocks when they need washing.

Hear me out: no bed sheets, only blanket on air matress

Dog got sick on the sheet and the dryer is broken. I've slept on that bare ass mattress for two days so far. Dryer is supposed to be replaced today but I'll be to drained after 10 hours at work to do wash.

Executive disfunction has prevented me from getting another sheet before this happened.

*month

I'm going to do it but only because I want to and not because you called me out

This found me at a very bare mattress time of my life

Just wash the pillowcases and not the sheets

Lmao, currently sat in my bed that's had no sheets for 2 days.

This post motivated me to purchase another set.

This is why you find a partner who can compensate for your dysfunction.

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Remember when people wrote with words? Remember when 'ur' saved some time if you were lazy and on pre-T9 typing?

I have never done this, and I've been on long term sick leave for 15 years due to my executive disfunction/action paralysis. I have gone months without changing bedclothes but not once taken them off without having clean ones to put on at the same time. I'm pretty sure this is a problem from something else and not what's stated.