When you make the bed, how do you do it? No sheets tucked in then?
Yeah, that was my opinion for years but the bed really does look so much nicer when it’s made. I was finally convinced of this after watching way too many housemake-over/decluttering shows. A nicely made-up bed makes a huge difference in the amount of percieved clutter.
Yes, and I’ll get out of bed to re-tuck them if they come out during the night. I hate sleeping in a messy bed.
Our cats prefer our bed unmade. It gives them so many nice places to nest in the covers.
We have the sheets and a cotton blanket tucked in at the bottom. I had never even considered an alternative. Untucked seems too wild and crazy for me.
tremorviolet, we have sheets, cotton blanket, wool blanket, down comforter and a quilt on top. You’d think we lived in Siberia.
In response to Bricker:
Ok. Let’s make sure we’re all on the same page first. On the bedframe, we have the boxspring and the mattress.
On the mattress is a cover sheet, yes? That is tucked in all the time - it’s the fitted sheet.
On top of that, in the summer, are usually two separate sheets (we sleep better when we don’t fight over the sheets).
In the winter, we usually remove the sheets and put the comforter on. So it’s bed, bodies, comforter.
When I do make the bed:
Which is basically when a parental unit visits (never without warning) or friends that are allowed to casually go upstairs (also never without warning) or people who have never seen the place before (so we want to give them the tour) - I usually:
Fold the blanket away.
Put the sheets properly on the bed. But I realize now, I still don’t tuck any damn thing in. Hmm.
Put on a lovely decorative spread which is big enough to cover flaws.
RUN WITH IT LIKE A WILD PERSON!
It’s hard to share a bed with someone with all the blankets untucked. Someone ends up getting them wrapped around themselves and the other person gets none. Are the majority of you who sleep untucked sleeping alone?
Our sheets are tucked in at the bottom, but not the sides. The duvet is tucked down by the footboard, but not under the mattress. We get high-quality sheets that feel very nice next to the skin, much better than the duvet by itself.
Nope. But we sleep in a full-size bed, when we have sheets there are always two sheets, and when we use the comforter we have a KING size comforter so there’s plenty of slack.
It can also work this way - he doesn’t move at all, and I move a LOT. So he lays on his end of the blanket early (I know, I’ve seen this) and I usually only pull until I get no more slack.
Not only do I tightly tuck the sheet at the end, I also stuff the end of the comforter down the end of the mattress and wedge it in place with pillows between the mattress and the footboard.
Then I duct tape myself to the bed.
It’s only civilized.
Sheets tucked in at the bottom. In the winter I have 2-3 blankets and a down comforter and 3 cats on the bed. And I still sleep in socks and have a sock filled with rice that I microwave and put at the foot of the bed to keep my tootsies warm. And sometimes I’ll heat the bed warmer and run that between the sheets right before I get in.
My towels are on a heated towel bar so they are warm and completely dry when I get out of the shower. I reuse my towels and wash them with my sheets.
StG
Untucked. Even if I’m in a hotel, the first thing I do is dive into bed and kick the sheets free. Feeling pinned drives me crazy.
When I make the bed, the top sheet just drapes; I don’t tuck it. I end up claiming most of the sheet during the night (I spin like a dervish), but my husband doesn’t mind because he doesn’t like to use a sheet anyway.
Tucked in. A draft at the bottom chills my legs, which can lead to rather painful muscle cramps that leave me disabled and very unhappy until they die down, and with a limp for much of the day.
BTW, me trying to sleep in socks makes me want to murder someone. I never did like the jammies with the feet.
I don’t have a choice because the waterbed sheets are all stitched together at the bottom, but I’d tuck them anyway. I need to be covered while I sleep. I tuck the covers in behind my back so there’s no air coming in, and I keep one hand under my chin with the sheet and blanket clutched in it. My husband used to kick the covers out on his side of the bed, but he’s learned to like them tucked in, I guess. He doesn’t kick them out even in hotels anymore. And sometimes when we’re snuggling before we turn over and go to sleep, he’ll reach over and tuck the covers in behind me. Makes me feel warm all over.
My son used to sleep with just a comforter (or two) but it was just from pure laziness. He’d start with a sheet and then lose it somewhere along the line and go on from there.
Okay, I’m the freak here.
I don’t really like sleeping with my sheets tucked in.
Because my feet get too cold.
I pull the covers out, kick my feet up so that the covers then land under them as well above them, and then roll so that I am cocooned in them so that I’m wrapped up all around and the covers move with me as I roll and toss and thrash through the night.
ETA: But sleeping in socks just feels wierd.
Who, me? Neurotic? What makes you say that?
I always have the sheets tucked in. To do otherwise just seems odd.
Show me a person who thinks using towels for a week before washing is disgusting, and I will show you a hypocrite.
They are the very same people that have no problem shaking hands with any Tom, Dick and Harry that comes down the pike. They touch door knobs, eat out of the communal cookie jar at work, talk into phones and headsets used by others, etc, etc. All manners of ‘filthy’ activities, but then catch the vapors if any one dares to use their bathtowel twice. Silly.
All sheets tucked in at the bottom. Sleep on stomach. Comforter over head. Cat settled on butt (optional)
Susan
Where to start?
I do a modified hospital corner thingy: sheets tucked into the foot of the bed (but tucked NEATLY–they must be smooth and neat). I do a hospital corner on my husband’s side of the bed, but don’t do one on mine. I find I like to have my foot out (in summer at least).
BTW, no one mentioned it, but I use a top sheet, a blanket (also hospital cornered) and a comforter, and then a woolen afghan on top of that. Our room is the coldest one in the house(in winter only). But no matter the ambient temperature, I cannot sleep with socks on or those footie pajamas. Ack.
Oh, and I don’t wash my towel after every bath. I bathe/shower daily. The towels get washed once a week. Get a grip, people.
Hubby and I both prefer untucked sheets. My foot (or feet) pops out from under the bedding most nights, and he likes to scoot down so he can hang his feet off the edge of the bed. (He sleeps on his stomach and we don’t have a footboard.) We always untuck sheets immediately in a hotel room.