Do you make your bed every day?

Have you tried showing him how by using your teeth? Using your hands is not a good example for the puppy. Do it as he’d do it and I’m sure he’ll get the idea in no time.

I practically live in a hotel. Someone else makes my bed for me almost every day, whether I like it or not. Sometimes I try to stop them particularly on the weekends. This is only mildly effective. At home then it’s mostly if someone is coming over. I’d probably do it more often but Mrs Shibb likes to leave her crap on the bed and I don’t like to pick up after her.

Nope. Well, I guess I make it neat and tidy whenever I change the sheets, but other than that, nah, I don’t bother.

When my boyfriend comes over he always does it for me. Hell, I don’t even think he’d let me make it, because of how particular he is. :smiley:

I sleep on top of my made bed every night. I use a blanket on top of the bed and when I wake up I just push the blanket to the side. So technically my bed never has to be made…only when I wash things.

Oh hell no. Heck, at the moment my bed doesn’t have sheets on it, and I’ve been sleeping in it that way for probably two weeks. I might make it tonight (and by make, I mean wrap the bottom sheet around the mattress covers) - the covers reflect a lot of heat onto me.

Once I move back into my parents’ place I’ll have to though. :frowning:

Am I the only one who thinks there’s an option missing? I don’t “make” my bed in the sense of fixing it up before I’m going to get in it, but I will take the covers off and put them back on so they are aligned (if they’ve come out of alignment, which is often.) That way I guarantee equal heating all over my body, so I don’t wind up freezing either before I fall asleep, or when I inevitably wake up during the night.

That last thing is really important: The last thing I need is something like being cold to make me have to move around and get completely woke up. It took me 2 hours to get to sleep before, and that was when I hadn’t done it for a while. When I’ve gotten a little rest, but am wide awake, it can take even longer.

If I ever made my bed I would just have to “unmake” it again in order to sleep comfortably anyway.

Every day, but only because the cats sleep on it and I would rather not have the kitty litter that might be stuck between their toes under my body at night–it’s strictly from the standpoint of keeping pet stuff off the sheets I sleep on. The dog also naps up there occasionally and the dog has been known to host a flea or two in summer. If I didn’t choose to protect the sheets from stuff, I would agree that there’s no real point.

Me, my bed is made tighter than Dick’s hatband, but it doesn’t mean anything if yours aren’t. My mom was a nurse and my dad a former drill sergeant, but I realized a long time ago that not everyone’s was.

I do, but I use only a duvet and no other sheets or covers, so making the bed consists of giving it a shake and straightening it out.

I only do it when I’m trying to impress someone. That someone would be my wife. So yeah, I make it but I wouldn’t if I was living alone. We have the same rule as upthread, last out if bed makes it.

You’d think since we sleep in the living room I’d care. But nope, I can’t really muster up concern about how it looks because there’s a huge bed in my living room.

I make my bed every day. I sleep much better in a bed that has been made. If I don’t have time to make the bed in the morning, I do it when I come home, even if it’s late in the evening. It just has to have been done before I unmake it again before I go to sleep.

If other people make their beds or not I don’t care about.

I never made my bed (except when changing the sheets) for the first 25 years of my life. My mother was a religious bed maker, but didn’t pass that on to any of her children. She taught us how to make hospital corners, but never made us do it.

A couple of years ago, I realized how much I like how a made bed feels when you crawl into it. It makes the sheets feel cleaner and fresher. Everything is smooth and comfortable. There are equal parts blanket on both sides of the bed. It is just nice.

I figured out that if I used the hospital corners my mother had taught me when I change the sheets, the bed stays mostly made, even after my husband, myself and two cats have spent the night in it. Making it is just a matter of pulling up the covers and the comforter. I don’t tuck in the sides because my husband doesn’t like, so it is even easier. I can make the bed in about 20 seconds and it feels so much nicer. The cats will even stay on the bed while I am making it.

So, I hope that helps out the people who can’t understand why someone would make a bed. I have no feelings about it other then that it feels nice, and that is reason enough for me.

My former stepmother, who I never liked, once criticized me for not making the bed when I was visiting my father. His house, not hers. Her query to me, how can you possibly go to bed, in a unmade bed.

My answer:

I asked her if she ever got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. She said, yes of course. My followup question, do you make the bed before you get back into it after going to the bathroom?

She answered NO, I said Bingo. she never asked me ridiculous question again.

I make the bed every morning. I’m a little confused by definitions of making the bed, too, though - I put it back together as much as it is ever together. The fitted sheet is on the bottom, the top sheet is put back straight over that, the pillows are put in order, the duvet is straightened over the top sheet - that’s as put together as my bed ever gets.

I always hang up my towels and washclothes, too. I find this interesting, that I always make the bed and hang up my towels, since I’m not a terribly tidy person. I suppose I like the results of bed-making and towel-hanging more than I like not making the effort.

Of course not. If you’re coming back from going to the toilet, you can’t see the bed, so how it looks doesn’t concern you. In any case, you’re half asleep.

Always because it’s a loft and you have to walk past it to the bathroom.

I’d make it 4-5 days a week if the bedroom were separate.

I never make my bed, because I always felt that it was better to let the mattress and covers dry out than to cover up the dampness. New research seem to support my ideas.

Untidy beds may keep us healthy

A study (Feb 2005) by Kingston University (London UK) shows that simply by leaving your bed unmade each morning, with the sheets to be exposed to the air, allows the sheets to dry out, and substantially reduces the numbers of dust mites.

How to Keep Dust Mites Out of Your Bed

Be sure to look closely at the lovely pictures :stuck_out_tongue:

I chose occasionally, mostly because I only make my bed when I have just cleaned the sheets/blanket, have family over, or have any chance of a girl I’m interested in seeing it. I went a month straight of making my bed daily when I was seeing someone 2 years ago because we mostly hung out at my place, but I personally don’t see the point in it.