I do, but it’s not very complicated. We have a sheet and a comforter and two pillows, that’s it. Mostly the pillows are where they’re supposed to be anyway.
I’m not that way about it, it’s more a thing of being tidy helps me stay organized. Hubby, OTOH, is mildly OCD so it’s very important to him. His house slippers must also be placed on “their” square on the floor. Do NOT move them.
No. We might occasionally pull the duvet over the sheet (which is never placed neatly), but that’s about it. The way we sleep, the pillows tend to stay where they were and the duvet ends up more or less lined up with the bed anyways, so “making the bed” at most involves flipping the corner back up after we’ve climbed out of bed.
Only when people are coming over. I don’t care for friends being able to see into my bedroom, but it’s right across the only bathroom and it makes the place feel stuffy if I shut my bedroom door. So I leave the door open but spiff things up a bit, which includes making the bed.
It’s silly that I do it for the boyfriend, though, because the first thing we do when he comes over is jump in bed and cuddle and talk. I’m so used to this that whenever we sit on the sofa and talk, it feels like we’re doing it wrong.
I hated doing it as a kid. One of the pleasures of being an adult is not having to do any unnecessary bed-making.
I’ve started making it more often lately, but didn’t for years. In trying to change my slobby ways I realized that I really like a made bed. The room looks nicer and it feels good crawling into a bed with the sheets & blankets spread out neatly. I still don’t do it every day, out of habit, and it tends to happen right before I go to bed. I can’t be bothered to be a useful person first thing in the morning - even drinking water is too much work.
I don’t tuck everything in, but I have a waterbed and if the blanket isn’t pretty square, it will lose a lot of heat during the day. So, not neatly ‘made’ every day, but not left totally however it is when I get out.
I answered “nearly every day”, when the correct answer is really closer to “nearly every night”. I like getting into a bed at night that has been made. But during the day. . .my kitty is curled up on my bed; my 10YO or hubby is watching TV in my room, I’m folding laundry on the bed, etc.
So my hubby and I decided years ago that we would make the bed before we climb into it at night. He and I are both also very proprietary about our pillows. I have to have my pillows, he has to have his. So those get arranged, too.
As far as things being tucked in, nah. Don’t like it. I have a ‘sleigh-style’ bed and the mattress fits close enough to the footboard that if I tuck the sheets and comforter down, it feels like they’re tucked in. Sheets tucked in on the sides bother me a lot, make me feel almost claustrophobic. One of the first things I’ll do in a hotel room is to untuck the sheets!
BTW, this new look with pillows half-way down the bed so it looks like there’s nowhere to sleep, what’s that about?
I am a horrible slob and I don’t care for arbitrary rules of “things you should do for no particular reason that don’t affect anyone else.”
But I make my bed every day.
I don’t really mess it up as I sleep, so it doesn’t take much time. I prefer climbing into a made bed at night, although not enough to overcome my lazy inertia. I think I mostly do it because I sit on it a lot over the course of the day and it’s less lump that way and if I spill anything solid, there aren’t layers of lines to clean up and stains tend to happen to just the top.
I’m currently (for the last month or so) trying to do it every morning as a courtesy to my husband, who has insomnia issues and who feels out-of-sorts and distracted in any messy room. He always gets up earlier than I do. I tend to skip it if the dog or one of the cats is sleeping on it, though.
Oh hell yes, me too.
I think it’s the same kind of thing as the old Aquafresh ads with a super-whoosh of toothpaste, where they got almost two full layers on the brush: it looks kind of cool and extravagant, and encourages you to buy more (pillows, toothpaste).
During a hyper-moralistic phase when I was a teenager there were a handful of Sundays when I didn’t make my bed. Apart from those, I make my bed every day. It must be done before noon or before I leave home, whichever is first. Days when I wash the sheets are exempt from this rule.
I have a waterbed, and, really, “making the bed” is different. It’s all wood, including the rails. I have no idea what waterbed fashion is like now, but my bed, which I bought in 1993, is the same style as a bed I had in 1984. All I have to do is tuck in the comforter to make it look “made.” The only time I tuck in the comforter is the day I put on fresh clean sheets.
But every morning I at least spread the comforter out…it isn’t tucked, and it’s a bit mussed, but it must be spread because it acts as an insulator to keep the heat in.
My cleaning lady, who comes every two weeks and does the laundry, makes up the bed. Other than that I will arrange the sheet (I only use one top sheet, blankets or cover being unnecessary here) only if someone might see it.
Edit: He also says something along the lines of:
“I’m hoping to come back in just a few hours, and I want it to be open!”
To answer the OP, never. Ever. Not even top impress, cause…who’ impressed by a bed that’s made? Really? I’ll clean up the rest of the house, but I rarely tidy up the bedroom…I figure, if I’ve already got someone willing to go up there with me, an unmade bed isn’t going to be what stops the naked time.
Every day, of course. It takes all of about a minute in the morning, and I find the bending and stretching a good limbering up routine. It looks tidier too, and I think it’s much nicer to get into a bed that has been made, than into one that hasn’t.