Making the bed

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 3:35 pm

Useless or entirely useless?

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 3:37 pm

tennbengal wrote:Useless or entirely useless?

Company coming? Parents/InLaws in town?

Otherwise yes.

Keg · Post by **Keg** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 3:42 pm

I dont mind it...only takes a couple of minutes and makes the room look neat and clean.

duff · Post by **duff** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 3:50 pm

entirely useless

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 3:51 pm

I make the bed whenever I wash the sheets, so around once a week.

Do we need to have a sheet-washing habits discussion as well?

Post by **brian** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 3:52 pm

Johnny Carwash wrote:I make the bed whenever I wash the sheets, so around once a week.

Do we need to have a sheet-washing habits discussion as well?

Same. (Unless someone is coming over and there's any chance they'll be seeing the bed.)

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 3:57 pm

Keg wrote:I dont mind it...only takes a couple of minutes and makes the room look neat and clean.

I'm with this guy.

Post by **Sabo** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 4:08 pm

I can't explain why, but I always sleep better in a made bed than an unmade bed. Thus, I make my bed every day, even if it's right before I go to sleep.

Keg · Post by **Keg** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 4:19 pm

Sabo wrote:I can't explain why, but I always sleep better in a made bed than an unmade bed. Thus, I make my bed every day, even if it's right before I go to sleep.

Me too. I also dont like sitting/laying on an unmade bed during the day.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 4:26 pm

I have 2 beds in my house. Both are unmade.

And I go the extra step. I dump all the clothes from the dryer onto one because folding clothes is a waste of time too.

Things like this are why being married wouldn't be good for me.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 5:41 pm

Make the bed every morning. Its one of my GF's little OCD things. The bed has to be made every morning, to her rather exacting standards. She says her Mom taught her to make the bed first thing every morning, because that meant you had already gotten one thing successfully completed that day.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 6:00 pm

Only when the sheets get changed or the possibility of a girl staying over. Usually they coincide.

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 6:11 pm

Only for the possibility of a girl staying over the first time. Otherwise, completely useless. My housekeeper will make it when she changes the sheets, and it just looks weird.

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 6:21 am

Make mine and the kids' beds every morning.

Moreta · Post by **Moreta** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 6:34 am

I lay the bedspread/quilt/comforter over the bed neatly every day. The sheets underneath do not get smoothed, tucked, or otherwise neatened except when I'm putting on clean ones (usually weekly). I do not require the children to make their beds except when company is coming.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 8:01 am

Keg wrote:
Sabo wrote:I can't explain why, but I always sleep better in a made bed than an unmade bed. Thus, I make my bed every day, even if it's right before I go to sleep.
Me too. I also dont like sitting/laying on an unmade bed during the day.

I make it every morning - Psychologically - to me an unmade bed in an adult's room is kind of disturbing. (My mother made her bed very first thing in the morning.)

However, I no longer make my kids' beds. Or wash their sheets. And I can tell you that my mother's fastidiousness will die with me.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:28 am

Here's another question, when you sleep are the sheets tucked in the end of the bed or not.

If yes then the bed is already made, all the time.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:32 am

Only sociopaths sleep with the sheet not tucked in.

Post by **brian** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:47 am

mister d wrote:Only sociopaths sleep with the sheet not tucked in.

This.

Keg · Post by **Keg** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:54 am

Sheets always untucked. Don't like the tied down feeling.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 12:04 pm

Untucked. My legs seem to get hotter than the rest of my body when I sleep.

We make the bed during the week when my mom in-law is staying with us. Weekend it's unmade, but I at least like to make it without the actual comforter. We have one we sleep under and one that goes on top of that one for decoration. The latter stays on the floor from Friday morning to Monday morning.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 1:32 pm

Untucked. I'm a duvet type of guy.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 1:39 pm

mister d wrote:Only sociopaths sleep with the sheet not tucked in.

Having the sheet untucked drives me nuts. But it often comes untucked anyway, and I don't actually care enough to get up during the night to tuck it back in.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 1:41 pm

I sleep on a mountain of unwashed jeans

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 1:54 pm

Ryan wrote:I sleep on a mountain of unwashed jeans

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:46 pm

I much prefer untucked. My wife much prefers tucked. More than one marital disagreement has arisen from this.

And, while we are on the subject, how has this not yet been posted??

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Fri Dec 11, 2015 12:13 am

We're a diverse family.

I'm generally neater (I call it 'organized' -- that sounds more functional) than my wife around the house. But I leave the bed disheveled. She loosely makes the bed each day, even if it's five PM when she gets to it. Untucked, of course. That's kind of a fundamental sign of mental health, or at least a creative spirit.

Daughter #1 never made a bed until she left home. I 'won' the parental argument about the kids' bedroom tidiness issue by agreeing to be the parent-in-charge on this topic. That is, I lost -- I became the one to address issues of food deposits, lost books, and electrical hazards. My edict: do whatever you want as long as you can get to the door in a hurry in case of fire. And no felonies without prior notice. I told her that when I was her age I kept my trombone on my bed. She pretty much follows in the spirit of this tradition. But I had a queen-sized bed. Now in a college triple, she says she's astonishingly neat. I'm not surprised. Ideally it should be about the situation, not the disposition.

Daughter #2 requires her bed be in perfect order. This includes serious de-wrinkeling and arranging the 25 or so stuffed animals that sit in a particular pattern on top of the comforter, and another 10 that are nearby on the floor and a ledge. This arranging can only be done by my wife (that is, I won). This is one of the more benign symptoms of autism. Especially so as she doesn't take this quirk on the road. Hotel room beds are different somehow, and don't trigger this response.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Sun Dec 20, 2015 7:32 pm

We're never going to make it as SEALs, guys.

Full speech. Worth a watch:

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 9:42 am

Are you a bunch of seven-year olds? Make your bed when you wake up to make sure you don't go back to bed, and fold your clothes when they are out of the dryer while you are in front of your tv. Are you children still unsure of the whole "wiping yourself after you go #2" trend?

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 9:45 am

Someone is grumpy on his birthday.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 9:52 am

Making your bed immediately just seals in all your sleep grossness. That's the worst option of all the options.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 10:09 am

What kind of mature adult requires a made bed as a deterrent to not go back to sleep in the middle of the day?

Oh yeah, and Happy Birthday.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 10:16 am

Johnny Carwash wrote:What kind of mature adult requires a made bed as a deterrent to not go back to sleep in the middle of the day?

Oh yeah, and Happy Birthday.

The 20-minute nap is the best productivity secret. I just always make sure I sleep on the couch vs. the bed.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 10:20 am

Last Thursday after making lunches and getting the kids out, I laid back down and fell asleep for 45 minutes but woke up to myself violently biting my own tongue. So maybe L-Jam has a point.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 11:26 am

Sheets are like jeans, they aren't meant to be washed.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 9:50 pm

The Sybian wrote:Sheets are like jeans, they aren't meant to be washed.

I don't have strong feelings on the the jeans issue. But, fresh clean sheets on your (made) bed are really nice.

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