Opinion – What Would You Do in This Situation?

I'm not trying to start an argument, or declare who's "right" and who's "wrong" in this situation... but I can't be the only person who feels this way, can I?

Quick back story first: A few weeks back, my wife and I had some friends stay over for the night and they slept in our guest bedroom. The next morning they had to leave right away in order to get back to their dogs, who were staying at a friend's house. As I was walking by our guest room, I noticed all the sheets were yanked off the bed and in a pile on top of the mattress.

Right away I called for my wife and asked what's going on, as I haven't seen something like this happen since college. She said it was no big deal and started to gather up the sheets to bring them downstairs to be washed. But before she could that I asked her why bother because they were still technically "clean". Immediately I got the look (men, you know what I'm talking about) and she said, "No, that's gross we're washing them."

So that was that, because, well, happy wife, happy life. But this brings me to my question: What would you do here?

As far as I know, nothing happened in between those sheets and our friends had only slept there for 6 hours or so as we were out pretty late the night before having fun. But my wife insists that we should wash them no matter what, regardless of what went down, because it's common courtesy to the next couple that sleeps in our bed.

I'm totally in the camp that if something, anything, happened the night before, then you wash those damn sheets. But if all they did was pass out and sleep off a night of fun and left, then they're still "clean" in my book and can sit there until later because they're not dirty.

This is totally Man Logic, I know, but c'mon! Plus, I know for a fact that my wife will wash these same sheets again before another person sleeps in them if more than a couple weeks pass between visits. That's just how it goes.

I realize you wouldn't pay money for a hotel room if you knew the room or the sheets weren't clean. But this is our home, with our friends, and we all know each other. To my knowledge, none of our friends are germaphobes, nor would they be upset if we told them the sheets weren't squeaky clean before they went to bed in them; but I feel it's just wasted time, energy and water to be washing our guest room sheets more often when they're rarely used, just for the sake of keeping them "clean."

In any case, I know there are a ton of different variables involved in this, but I'll just keep this simple: