A laundry room with a basket full of sheets and an open machine filled with sheets - Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock It's a dreaded but necessary task to strip your bed and wash your sheets and pillowcases.

Washing machines today have more cycles than ever, but you can probably get by with using just a few.

Washing bed sheets seems pretty straightforward, as far as laundry goes. Unfortunately, a lot of people are washing their bedding all wrong — and, compounding the confusion, many of the old rules of ...