My wife does it every morning, but when I lived alone, I never made it, except when I changed the sheets. Once when I lived in a bed/sitter, I did it every day because the bed was also my sofa.
As much as I’d like to say I do it every day, that just isn’t true. Having satin sheets is nice when I’m in the bed, but they never stay in place for more than 2 days. In order to reset them everything else has to come off the bed, so it really is a forceive habit to make it every 3rd day at least. I also always make it when cleaning/organizing my room, so that I can place things on top of it.
Right now I have a fitted sheet, a covers sheet, a down blanket, a comforter, two head-rest pillows (there’s no headboard, so they rest against the wall), two head pillows, two smaller pillows which match the comforter and go on top of it, and one temperpedic pillow. It takes about 20 minutes to make from scratch…
Do you mean ‘force of habit’ or am I learning a new phrase today? (serious question)
I am going to tell you why I do it. Don’t laugh… For the same reason I change my underwear everyday. If I died on the way to work how would I want my loved ones to see my home :eek: I don’t know why I have that in my head but I do.
That makes sense to me - but y’know, after they see my made bed, they’d probably open the drawer to my bedside table and see my vibrator - and then all that effort would go to patooey . . . :smack:
I almost always do. It gives me the feeling that I’ve at least done something. I may not have time to vacuum or mop the kitchen floor or dust the furniture, but at least I can feel that the room looks reasonably presentable (even though nobody’s coming to look at it), my stress level goes down a little bit because I’m not as overwhelmed with all the crap I didn’t have time to get to. It just looks a little more orderly, and I feel better.
As I saw the results of this poll, I must say I was very surprised that the majority of people don’t make their bed daily. To me it is part of leaving and coming home to a neat house every day. If my sheets are all rumbled and comforter and decorative pillows thrown on the floor, my room looks messy. My days are enough of a mess, I don’t want to come home to that. I have to wonder if the non maker’s rooms are clean other than that. I mean clothes picked up and put away, furniture dusted and organized etc. Or does all that go together?
My clothes are usually put away - although occasionally I’ll change from work to an evening event and just kind of have the clothes on the floor, if I’m in a hurry. But typically when I walk back in, I’ll pick them up and throw them in the hamper before I get in to bed.
I dust my furniture when I notice the dust. I don’t do it on a weekly basis or anything like that. But I also tend to use everything I have out - so it doesn’t get very dusty.
I tend to multi-task, so I’ll often put paperwork, shoes, and general clutter in the stairs and take it up with me when next I go up. Same thing with empty glasses/trash/etc from upstairs that needs to go down.
I will have at least one week a month where unannounced visitors will be subject to the first 10 minutes of our visit being me scooping things out of sight - but most people tell me I’m being paranoid, as what I consider clutter to them is normal or clean.
This thread is making me realize that I’m a big fan of housekeeping systems. I have a clothes basket in the bedroom where dirty clothes go - when it’s full enough, I do laundry. I never hunt around for dirty clothes, because they’re only in one place. Dirty dishes and glasses always get returned to the kitchen so they get washed when I do a load in the dishwasher. Cleaning supplies are kept wherever I use them, so when the mood strikes me, I can clean on a whim. Clothes, sheets and towels are put away after being washed, and hung up after being worn if they aren’t dirty enough to wash yet. This actually makes me feel better about my half-assed housekeeping; I’m fuller assed than I realized. 
Sure, my clothes are put away. Do I fold my laundry and arrange it all nice and neat in the drawers? Hell no. That’s another thing that makes no sense to me. Each type of clothing has its own drawer, but that’s as far as my organization goes - it all just gets tossed in straight from the laundry basket.
As for furniture, I’ve got a little clutter on my coffee table, but otherwise my apartment is tidy. I’ll dust every couple of weeks, when I notice it and/or the mood strikes me.
It’s all based on opportunity. Nobody sits around thinking “Gee, instead of reading the 'dope, talking to my family, or reading a good book, I’d so much rather be cleaning.” Rather, it’s something that catches your eye when the opportunity strikes - if you don’t have to go hunting for supplies or plan out exactly when you’ll do something, you’ll be much happier and get much more accomplished, all with less stress.
I feel like bed making is like flossing - if you try hard to do it every day for a few weeks, you’ll be unlikely to forget it in the future. And you have one more good habit.
Thanks for the belly laugh… 
I started making the bed every day about 6 months ago. (Or at least I trained my husband to and he does it most mornings because he is always out of bed after me.) It occurred to me how much I like sleeping in a freshly made bed at a hotel, and I started to realize that I didn’t have to leave home to get the feeling. The bed gets made every morning (if he forgets I do it when I get home from work) and the sheets and towels get changed once a week. I wouldn’t mind clean sheets more often but I can’t really manage more.
When the mood strikes me or when I change the sheets I do it. Sometimes I need to because my duvet is falling out of the bottom of it’s cover, maybe I had a restless sleep that night and the sheets are tangled or bunched up in a way which would just be annoying to try and sleep in.
Most of the time my sheets stay reasonably how I made the bed last time so the most making the bed I have to do is flip the corner back up that I’d thrown back when getting out of bed (maybe slightly off centre now). Don’t bother with fancy covers or extra pillows. If I don’t need it to sleep with, it’s not on the bed.
Making my bad makes it feel like I’m sleeping in a hotel room. I like my messy bed. I’ll only make it for company that isn’t friends, a date, or if I totally kicked the sheets off during my nightly kick-fest. I move a lot in my sleep apparently.
My mother told me a long time ago that it felt good to get into a made bed. This from a woman who couldn’t keep house and was a hoarder. I don’t always make my bed since I don’t have a lot of time in the mornings, but I do try at least a bit. I will however straighten it out before I go to bed, and then mess it up.
Only when trying to impress someone… And since I haven’t even tried that in years, never. I just keep the door to the bedroom closed.
ETA: I don’t even actually “Make The Bed” when I change the sheets and such. Sheets go back, get tucked in, blankets get tossed back on top so I can roll myself up in them again at night.
I made my bed this morning even though I was running a bit late, just because of this thread. How sad is that?
Not sad at all, I actually thought of it too as I made my bed this AM.
I don’t, partially because I’m lazy and partially because I hate getting into a made bed. If I am sleeping in a hotel, the first thing I do is kick all the sheets out from under the mattress, and the second thing I do is put up the do not disturb sign so housekeeping doesn’t “fix” it while I’m there.
My bedroom’s pretty straightened otherwise (I think there’s a basket of folded laundry on a dresser, but towels are hung, hamper is empty, nothing on the floor, etc), so I don’t think there’s a perfect correlation with bedmaking and messiness.