Our sheets are always tucked in, just as God intended. But I’d still give you a hug, Anaamika. I believe everybody needs a hug once in a while. Even a complete and utter heathen.
In the interests of full disclosure, I don’t even know how often I wash my towels. I throw them in whenever they need it. Certainly it’s not after every use. Why would I create more work for myself?
Sheets and comforter tucked at end of bed. Sheets tucked partway up the sides, and if my current blankets were long enough to tuck they’d be getting tucked too. Otherwise the covers go everywhere and are messy. I don’t like sleeping in socks or pants, so I need the blankets and whatnot to stay on top of me where they belong.
I don’t understand you untucked people. You’re weird.
Always tucked in. I hate when the sheets get messed up. I do not move much when I’m sleeping so the sheets and blankets stay in place. I also have to make my bed in the morning or at least before I get into bed at night. I hate getting into an unmade bed.
But of course! Do you think I was raised by wolves? Sheet always tucked in, always with hospital corners. When the majority of your early bed-making experience comes from working in a hospital, it sticks.
TupeloHoney, I’ve always assumed I was the only person that would make a bed just before getting into it, instead of making it in the morning. I do yank the covers up in the morning, but I neaten them properly right before I get into bed.
It drove me nuts when my ex-boyfriend would untuck the sheets on his side.
Good Og! Don’t you people know that if your feet hang out from under the sheets, the boogedy can grab 'em, and pull you out of bed, and then drag you off to his lair in hell, where you will be tortured for all eternity?! Maybe even eaten alive?!
Naw. I like my feet to be free, but I only tuck in one side, which would be my husband’s side of the bed.
He likes the sheets tucked, I don’t.
No wonder it’s taking so long to eradicate ignorance…
You people never heard of MONSTERS?
You cannot leave your feet hanging out! Monsters will grab you, drag you under the bed, and devour your spleen. This is such a well-established fact that I’m not even going to bother searching for a cite. It’s fact.
The best strategy is to kick the sheets free of the matress and then employ another kick to firmly wrap them around your lower legs. This makes monsters unhappy, and they leave you alone to sleep peacefully.
[sup]Seroiusly! WTF? You people survived to adulthood??[/sup]
Tucking is sheets is stupid, like you say. It gives the bed a certain look, kind of like a military cot. But in the military it may make sense, as often barracks are not well sealed, or even closed at all, so a wind gust would really mess up all loose blankets. But once you get in, you have to loosen the covers to fit your feet in.
I have big honkin’ feet and so does my husband. I tuck. Hospital corners for sheets and blankets, and the duvet is tucked between the footboard and mattress, but not under the mattress.
I just don’t cut my toenails very often. Tough toenails run in my dad’s family. If the monsters or boogie men try to grab my foot, they will be stabbed by my toenails.
This is exactly the way I slept … until I got married. Of course, you can see the problem if two people are trying to work this plan. Besides, my wife is one of the “sheets must be tucked” people, so, my first task at night is to loosen the sheets so my feet can get out if necessary. Then the edges get tucked under as OtakuLoki describes. So no OtakuLoki, you’re not neurotic. That’s the right way to do it.
On the other hand, we have never been able to get our two sons to use topsheet. It’s disgusting to me. They claim topsheets are useless.
I don’t get it. This is one of the reasons I hate hate hate tucked beds. My feet feel like they’re being trapped, but it’s my toes that take the brunt of the force, and it’s very uncomfortable.
And I don’t know why tucking people are using the word snug. Having loose sheets/blankets draped all around you and being able to curl up with them… that’s snug.
Well, you don’t keep them TUCKED, at least I don’t. I keep them tucked in, but not tight around my feet. They stay where they are but they don’t compress my tootsies or anything.
I do too have toes!! I know this because I just ran my chair over one of them and it hurts. Really bad.
Oh. Sheets. I’m a tucked in, straight (if they’re striped sheets the stripes have to be straight for example) and even on both sides. Which very rarely happens because my husband sleeps like a gorilla on meth. Between the RLS, the snoring, the turning around, the snoring, the me rolling him over when he’s snoring, his waking up when I roll him over, etc. ad nauseum, the bed is usually a mess by the time we wake up. I hate it. It’s good he gets up early so then I can fix the bed and go back to sleep for a little bit longer.
Right, and no one will care that you wear this to the Dopefest. I would wash my towels every five days or so but it’s so damp in my apartment that they never really dry so I have to swap them out more often.
As far as sheets, when I first make the bed I tuck in the foot end with hospital corners. But I am tall and fat and to pull them up around my neck takes all the length. I don’t remake my bed again in any formal way so they stay untucked. I then will position them tucked under my feet.
“So that’s one ‘tuck’, and one ‘no-tuck’.”
I’m a non-tucker. If the bed needs to look nice, I’ll tuck in the sides and bottom, but will completely untuck my section of the bed before climbing in. Otherwise, I feel trapped. I do use a clean towel each time though, so it evens out.