# Poll: do you make your bed? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 10, 2016, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663 "2016-01-10T02:30:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663/61 "2016-01-12T03:07:53Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Okay, so you don’t let your pets sleep in your bed. Your point would be…? That if my concern was pet hair on the sheets, I’d just close the door. I do close the door. My Girl has her nest for when I’m at work, a rather nice one, too. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663/62 "2016-01-12T03:15:52Z")
Once a week on laundry day. A former step mother got on my case for not making the bed when I was staying in their spare bedroom. Evil Stepmother: “How can you go to sleep in a unmade bed” NFM: “Do you re-make the bed if you get up in the middle of the night and go the bathroom, and if not, how do you go back to sleep” ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663/63 "2016-01-12T03:45:28Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > As to the last poll choice and the bed’s existence, the preferred phrasing here in South Georgia is “make up the bed.” Oh, great. Imaginary beds… ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663/64 "2016-01-12T03:52:20Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > NFM: “Do you re-make the bed if you get up in the middle of the night and go the bathroom, and if not, how do you go back to sleep” I bet that was received well. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663/65 "2016-01-12T04:07:39Z")
Bed? Oh, that thing in the other room. Most of the time, I end up passing out in my recliner. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663/66 "2016-01-12T05:53:08Z")
> [@stui\_magpie](#): > > It’s not coming from my place, the dog lives in the back yard 24/7 x 365 Please, please, please tell me that either you are joking, or you live on a sheep ranch and the dog(s) live with the sheep. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663/67 "2016-01-14T14:42:48Z")
> [@j666](#): > > I have no idea what you mean. Why would you remove the pillows and comforter? Why would you use a comforter and a blanket? Why would your blanket be folded instead of already spread neatly over the bed. Those stoopit decorative pillows, which make the reproductive rate of rabbits look positively glacial. The house is not currently for sale, nor is it going to be photographed for a magazine. What, othe than to waste time, is the purpose of putting them on in the morning only to take them off at night? :smack: I sleep with the lightest covering the season will allow. In the summer, that’s a well worn, thin blanket that I “liberated” from a hospital many years ago (to give you an ideas of how light it was to begin with). I think the last time I used the comforter was a few years ago on a winter night I had to limp thru when the heater broke & the house was in the lower 50°s. She liked to sleep under the comforter & use it as a bedspread. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663/68 "2016-01-14T16:25:54Z")
Anyone got the secret of getting the sheets and duvet cover dry in such a way that they don’t need ironing? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663/69 "2016-01-14T17:07:09Z")
I voted choice 2 as the least wrong. The second person out of bed always, and I do mean always, rearranges things the way we like it. Which is top covers & blankets neatly folded down halfway exposing almost all the parts we touch so they’ll air out. And pillows are uncrumpled and set upright again to better air. At bedtime the first person in will raise all the sheets, blankets, and pillows to the typical neat arrangement then crawl in their side. We use oversized sheets & blankets and don’t tuck in the sides at all. There’s enough hanging down on each side to keep that tucked-in feeling without any actual tucking-in effort. So overall we keep things neat and spend the effort 2x/day to deliberately arrange things, but a traditional homemaker would insist our bed was never properly made at all. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663/70 "2016-01-14T17:16:24Z")
I made my bed (every morning) before leaving for school. My mom insisted that I did. Continued making my bed for a few years after getting my own apartment. At some point getting to work on time became more important. I probably was about 23 when I quit making the bed. It wastes too much time in the mornings. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663/71 "2016-01-14T18:42:25Z")
It takes me about 5 seconds to make my bed in the morning, and about 2 seconds to pull the covers back and slide in at night. Not exactly a big time waster. Granted I don’t have a bunch of pillows and blankets and such, just a sheet, comforter, and 2 normal pillows. But if you have a bunch of stuff on your bed that would make it even messier if you didn’t make it. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663/72 "2016-01-14T18:53:59Z")
I never make the bed and have [fewer mites](http://www.sciencealert.com/making-your-bed-each-morning-makes-it-easier-for-dust-mites-to-breed-science-finds)because of it! 😃 I have a top sheet and a duvet and give them a quick flick to tidy them up right before climbing in for the night. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663/73 "2016-01-14T20:51:37Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Those stoopit decorative pillows, which make the reproductive rate of rabbits look positively glacial … What, othe than to waste time, is the purpose of putting them on in the morning only to take them off at night? I’m so glad at least one person in the universe thinks the way I do. I watch a lot of decluttering/cleaning videos (yes, it does help me get going with my own decluttering issues) but these dozens of pillows on every bed - what on earth for? The only place I could put them, should I choose to follow this ridiculous trend, is on the floor. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663/74 "2016-01-14T21:27:59Z")
I follow the Jim Gaffigan logic: “My wife asked me why I never make the bed. I said, ‘For the same reason I don’t tie my shoes after I take them off.’” ---
**Author:** ![T.M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ad7895/32.png) [@T.M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.M)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663/75 "2016-01-14T21:52:01Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > My mother never made her bed apart from changing the linens or prepping for company. > > As with many other things, having observed this as a way of life, it is how I live mine and always have. (I am single and have lived alone most of my life so that bears I think…) > > I am not a particularly tidy person generally. I LIKE a tidy home, I just don’t like making the time and gathering the focus and energy to accomplish it myself, I have far more important and/or interesting things to do. If I could stop time while I cleaned my house and it didn’t suck a lot of my energy, I would definitely do it a lot more. > > But making my bed, in any serious way, just doesn’t matter to me. As long as my linens are clean and arranged in a manner that feels pleasing when I am wrapped in them/lying on them, that is all I care about. > > So tell me about you. Aside from the poll, please share why you do it, if you do. (I know many answers will be simply: “Because I like my house to look neat and tidy and that is part of it.” But if it’s anything else… > > Poll to follow We have a bed making fairy in the house, I go to the bathroom and when I come back the bed is made, curtains drawn and the window is open, fantastic ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663/76 "2016-01-15T00:35:16Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Those stoopit decorative pillows, which make the reproductive rate of rabbits look positively glacial. The house is not currently for sale, nor is it going to be photographed for a magazine. What, othe than to waste time, is the purpose of putting them on in the morning only to take them off at night? :smack: > > I sleep with the lightest covering the season will allow. In the summer, that’s a well worn, thin blanket that I “liberated” from a hospital many years ago (to give you an ideas of how light it was to begin with). I think the last time I used the comforter was a few years ago on a winter night I had to limp thru when the heater broke & the house was in the lower 50°s. She liked to sleep under the comforter & use it as a bedspread. Ah, I see. Well, no, I don’t, I don’t get all those little pillows, either. But the easiest & quickest way to may up a bed to look nice is keeping a set of pillows that you never actually sleep on in matching shams. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663/77 "2016-01-15T00:50:58Z")
I pull up the sheet and comforter, yes. Helps keep the cats from burrowing into the bed. The I fluff the pillows a bit. It doesn’t even take 2 minutes. (Having grown up with regular bedspreads, I love duvets. So easy to use.) The Feline Overlords generally sleep on the end of the bed, on a special huge bath towel. It’s easier to wash the bath towel than to get the cat hair off the comforter. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663/78 "2016-01-15T01:10:02Z")
Yes, of the “casually” variety. 1. the sheets and comforter end up unevenly distributed between us if the bed isn’t returned to a neutral state every day 2. the pets. Yes, they get on the bed, and no, I don’t want any more hair and general detritus under the sheet with me than I can help. ---
**Author:** ![Whatever4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@Whatever4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whatever4)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663/79 "2016-01-15T01:16:24Z")
I do all the proper tucking and smoothing and pillow plumping when the sheets are changed. Between changes, the dog takes care of his 2/3rds of the covers and I try to match his bed making skills.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663/80 "2016-01-15T04:37:17Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > Please, please, please tell me that either you are joking, or you live on a sheep ranch and the dog(s) live with the sheep. Neither. I live in suburban Melbourne and the dog has the back yard. He has multiple choices of places to sleep and shelter depending on the weather, which doesn’t get anywhere near as cold as the nothern part of the USA. I’ve had a few dogs over the decades but never any allowed in the house. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-make-your-bed/742663.md?page=5)