Do you make your bed?

In My Humble Opinion
41

I never, ever make my bed - not even when I wash the bedding.

This is becuase I cannot stand to have anything at the bottom tucked in. It drives me freaking batty when I try to sleep in a bed with a tucked in bottom. I can’t even explain how uncomfortable having the bottom of the bed tucked makes me.

I fully don’t see the point of going through the tuck sheets, organize pillows rigamarole when I’m just going to untuck (with muttered swear words) and rearrange the pillows to the comfortable sleeping positions my husband and I have worked out through our years of sleeping with each other. It’s a totally unnecessary pain in my ass, to be blunt.

The pillows stay bunched up at the top of the bed (his in his preferred arrangement, mine in my preferred arrangement). The bottom sheet never needs rearrangement (cause it’s, you know, elasticized to stay in position and all). The top sheet and blanket get shaken out and more-or-less centered on the bed right before we go to bed. (Or, rather, before I go to bed - I go to bed a lot earlier than my husband and he’s a blanket hog anyway - so if I want covers, I have to arrange matters so my side overhangs a lot more than his or he’ll swipe them all and I’ll be chilly all night :P) So even at its most “made”, my bed is still unsymmetrical and messy-looking. Experience has taught me that if I center the blankets properly, I will wake up at 3:30 am with no blankets and a burrito-looking husband all warm and toasty cocooned in every single thread of top bedding. However, if I leave him just barely enough to cover to the edge on his side of the bed, I get to keep enough blankets to cover me.

You will note that none of this is anyone but our business. So I can make the bed so it looks nice and then spend 10 minutes every night rearranging it to the functional configuration, or I can make it deliberately askew. Or I can leave it unmade, save myself the time of making it in the morning and just shut the bedroom door if anyone comes over. It doesn’t bother me to have it unmade.

We also don’t get up or go to sleep at the same time - and he often naps during the day in the bed. There’s just no point in making it. We’re the only ones ever in our bedroom - and our bedroom is cluttered for reasons that are way beyond our control in ways that have nothing to do with the made-ness of the bed (having to do with my mother-in-law, some furniature, and a will - it’s complicated), so making it to help our bedroom look nice is futile.

My kitchen, however, is clean as a whistle - thanks so much DianaG.

42

In a word: no.
In two words: heck no.

43

No. It’s just going to get slept in again, so what’s the point?

44

Almost never. About the only time I do is after I wash everything, or if someone might see it and think I’m a slob.

45

You sound like my son. Why not just walk around in pj’s all day too?

Actually I can get behind that one. :smiley:

46

If we have visitors coming over, yes. But Ivylad has such an unpredictable sleep schedule due to his health there’s really no point. Most times he only gets 3 hours of sleep at a time.

47

I sleep wrapped in my blankets and having to untuck them every night makes it nonsensical to tuck them in every morning. Especially since I have a stinkload of large pillows on the bed that would have to be removed and replaced again.

I will make the bed if guests are coming over. But that’s an easy concession for a misanthrope like me.

48

This thread is reminding me of the Seinfeld: “Ok, so that’s one ‘tuck’ and one ‘no tuck’.”

I don’t make my bed. That way it’s lying open waiting for me to come back and curl up in it again. I’m the only person who ever sees it so only I care.

49

I make the bed when someone else is going to see it, and rarely otherwise. I should do it more often, though: neatness makes me happy.

50

I usually make mine, just out of habit. If I’m sick and planning to go back into it, then I won’t make it. Also, if I’m planning to sit on it against my pillows while watching something on the tube, I will make it because I want to sit on the spread instead of the sheets.

51

I have to be honest and say I’m not working now. If I don’t make it, it’s too tempting to jump back in bed and take a nap. When I was working, it was hit or miss.

52

Rarely. If I know someone will see it (for instance, I made it before picking up my boyfriend at the airport), then sure. I’ll also make it after I wash/change the bedding, but otherwise? Not so much. Usually if someone is coming over, I just shut the bedroom door; they don’t need to be in there, anyway.

I probably should do it, though. It does look nicer, and I like stretching out on it to read or whatever, but I hate doing that if it isn’t made. Plus the rest of my apartment is a wreck (I’m working on it!), so it’d be a touch of tidy.

53

Occasionally, I do make the bed. More frequently when GF is visiting, to offer her the illusion that I wasn’t raised by wolves. :wink:

54

I haven’t read any of the responses to the OP, but I bet “because nothing makes the room look neater more quickly than making the bed” pops up more than once.

I have a very pretty (in my opinion) bedroom, and I think the made bed is part of that.

VCNJ~

55

I make mine every morning, first thing after I get up. It just makes my room look a lot nicer when I do it.

56

This is only my armchair theory but I think:

Cluttered environment; Cluttered mind.

Organized environment; Organized mind.
Seriously, I challenge any non-bedmakers to make their bed for one week straight and tell me you don’t notice a better change in your overall mood.
(Of course this only works if you keep everything else tidy too.)

57

Before mr.stretch started living with me, I never made my bed. Now, mr.stretch makes the bed when he gets out of it for the day–until nap time. :wink: Sometimes he makes the bed three or four times a day.

The reason we started making the bed was because we started living in our bedroom most of the time when the kids were teens and we just got used to it. There’s a tv and a big bed to sit on.

Then when the youngest daughter moved out, we moved our bedroom into the family room because one of our dogs has bad hips and shouldn’t climb the stairs too much. Our new bedroom is huge and has a door directly to our awesome patio. Now we live in our bedroom because it’s the best room in the house and it’s more convenient for us and our dogs. And when the kids come over they have the upstairs of our house to themselves.

So we make the bed to keep the dogs out of our sheets, give us a nice surface to sit on while watching tv, and give us space to play cribbage.

58

I agree completely (except for the reference to George “The Human Cheetoh” Hamilton. Seems an odd choice for a philosophic touchstone.). I had a brief time in my life where I didn’t make the bed but my husband and/or I make it every morning now. I love my room, I love the clean look of a made bed, I appreciate how nice it feels to climb into smooth sheets and it takes at most 2 minutes out of your morning—I timed it for a week just to debunk my husband who, back in the day, was claiming there wasn’t enough time in the morning to do it. (Is there a smug smily? It would be great right here.)

59

Now THIS is where the merely neat and the neat freaks part company :p. I can’t imagine being that together in the morning. You’re my personal hero.

60

Yes, I can understand how he might seem an odd choice, but there’s quite a bit more to old George than most people think. He’s a man of considerable intelligence and little-known but impressive accomplishment. But more importantly, IMO, he’s someone who really knows how to enjoy and get the most out of life. The quote I posted can be found in an amusing little book he wrote entitled Life’s Little Pleasures. It doesn’t have much in the way of biographical information but it conveys very well his humor and zest for life, and I find that at this point in my life much of it does indeed resonate with me philosophically. :slight_smile: