When the subject of cleaning your bedding comes up, opinions can vary. Some people, like Stacey Solomon, wash their bedding once a week, while others wash it once every two weeks or so. But, everyone would agree that a century is simply too long, let alone years, then decades, and so on. That wasn't the case, though, for Cornelia Bayley, whose bedding was estimated to be 100 years old, yet had never been washed.
Her house was featured on an episode of Channel 4's Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners in 2013, according to the Mirror, and the hosts called it their "greatest challenge yet." Aged 74 at the time of the show, the retired antiques dealer was struggling to maintain the 10-bedroom Grade I listed 17th century manor in north Wales by herself. She enlisted the help of cleaning obsessives Hayley and Dann.
An eye-opening confession which left both the cleaners stunned was that Cornelia had never washed her bedding or mattress – which is believed to be 100 years old. After being shown the bedroom, Hayley asked: "Cornelia, when was the bedding last washed," to which she replied: "Never".
