Hey! I’m a people, and I still use a bedspread! You take that back!
#stamps foot#
If you mean flinging the sheets and duvet over the bed and sort of straightening them , I do that pretty much every day although it’s often right before I go to sleep. If it’s straightening the sheets and tucking them in , I only do that when I change the sheets.
Yep, that’s it. If the top sheet, blanket, and spread get misaligned enough to annoy me, I’ll pull the lot down to the bottom, pull each layer up separately and get them aligned again. Then it’s back to the daily morning ritual of standing at the side where I got up and the covers are scrunched down, grabbing the top of the set and flinging it over the bed, pulling the set up to cover the pillow, tugging at one side or the other by the head to get it straight – done.
Takes hardly any time and looks neat. And I don’t have to yank free the sheet/blanket sides from being tucked in when I go to bed.
I stopped reading your post at “standing at the side of the bed” and finished it in my head “wondering how soon I can unmake it and get back in”
Yeah. It’s my main achievement of the day. Cause I’m lazy.
This is the way I was taught to do it, so it is the Only Right And True Way, of course.
I think the logic is:
- the sheet feels better against your skin than the blanket, so having the bit folded over the top means you feel only the sheet.
- Putting the printed side down means that the folded-over bit shows the pattern, and when you turn down the bed covers (sheet and blanket) to make it easier to get into bed, you see the pattern then, too.
Or you could take the European approach of “what the hell is a TOP sheet??”, and get a duvet / cover combo.
I haven’t seen this in hotels, per se, but in general yeah, blankets aren’t long enough. We recently solved this at home by buying a king-sized blanket (for our queen sized bed), and putting it on the bed so that the long axis is top to bottom (where it would be side to side on an actual king bed).
All you bed makers are gross.
There’s a reason you shouldn’t make your bed.
Same. Well, I use a quilt.
And the secret to domestic bliss?
Two comforters.
I knew I was doing it right!
This. Get solid colored sheets. There is no finished or unfinished side, so it won’t matter.
She can Kiss My Ass!
She knows about sheets though.
If we’re voting then OP is right and his wife must have inherited sociopathic tendencies from her mother. If there’s a printed side it should be touching the occupants. The non-printed side is like sandpaper* and must be avoided at all costs.
(*I assume. I’ve never been crazy enough to try it.)
Mom taught me a VERT particular way to make my bed as a kid. I presume it came from her mother who ran a tight ship, apparently:
- Sheet about six inches from the top of the bed. Sheet tucked under the mattress all around except close to the head of the bed.
- Blanket up to the seam in the sheet. Blanket tucked under the mattress like the sheet.
- Fold the sheet back over the blanket. Finish tucking!
- Then place pillow(s) in its spot at the top of bed, the pillow sits about 1/4 over the blanket with the sheet folded over it.
- Then comforter goes over the entire bed and pillow, tuck about a hands width of the comforter under the pillow.
- Whew. Now it’s time to go back to bed again!
Anyhow, she never said much about the directionality of the sheet, mostly because she almost always remade the bed as part of bedsheet laundry day. When it became all my job in college and beyond, I first put the patterned side of the sheet up… but at some point someone pointed out that was wrong to me … and since then, I’m a patterned sheet side down person. I still do the six inches from the top of the bed, fold over the blanket thing when the bed gets made. But the pillows just sit above the comforter now (my comforter is too “puffy” for the tuck under the pillow thing anyhow). And only the bottom and corners of the sheet and blanket get tucked under the mattress.
I learned the same, except the point where the sheet is folded is more like a foot away from the head of the bed, or even a bit more,so you can see a little of the folded end of the sheet sticking out below the pillows.
And the top layer isn’t a comforter, it’s a bed spread. You shove it down (or neatly fold it down) when you actually use the bed. It’s function is to keep the linens clean when you aren’t using the bed. In guest rooms, especially ones in old houses where plaster dust falls off the ceiling, it is incredibly functional.
All the layers that you intend to use over you when you sleep (top sheet, and one or more blankets and/or comforters) stop near the lower end of the pillow, and are covered by the bed spread.
If there are additional ornamental pillows or bolsters, those rules need to be modified. They aren’t usually displayed on the bed in rooms that need a bed spread. 
All that being said, when i was a teen i visited Denmark and learned about duvets and duvet covers, and realized there was no need to actually make the bed, except to tuck the lower sheet in at the base of the bed to keep it approximately in place.
There’s a very simple way to resolve this. In fact the solution is so obvious, I am flabbergasted that I am the first to think of this.
Let’s say 1 for finished side up, 2 for finished side down.
@discobot roll 1d2
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Well, there you have it, folks. The bot has spoken.
Not necessarily.
A close look at the hemmed area along the head edge of the sheet will often show that clearly one side is the finished side and one is not. Sometimes the sewing is such that there’s no obvious finished side, but more often, and especially on the less-than-luxo products, the difference is obvious.
Now whether that difference matters enough to bother with is certainly a matter of personal taste / give-a-shitness. But it’s usually there.
I confess to buying luxurious sheets. I spend a lot of time with my skin touching those things. I’ve just examined my top sheet. I honestly can’t tell the difference between the sides, even at the trim on the top. Maybe there’s a tag buried under the mattress somewhere that “ought to be” on the bottom.
I’ve had both kinds. Up until I moved out, my soon-to-be-ex wife had sheets where the top and bottom surface at the head hems were indistinguishable like yours are.
But in her world the sheet had to be installed with the tag on the bottom surface. Needless to say, that was one of several domestic activities I was prohibited from participating in, lest it be done inadequately.
My life is much more peaceful now.
I don’t often make my bed. I have a comforter that I use and a blanket that I put coarser side up, with the comforter on top. I also have a medium thickness/density blanket that I use sometimes, and that goes on the floor. I live alone.
I think the way you do it is very professional and your wife maybe isn’t trying hard enough to understand the simple genius of it. If she doesn’t understand it maybe she needs to try sleeping with it that way more often.