I make the bed somewhat regularly. I like how it makes the room look - I am a bit of a neat freak, and I like our home to be more or less tidy - plus, we have a really nice Amish-made quilt on the bed so I want to get to see it, not a rumpled pile of sheets.
During the summer we just have a sheet, a thermal blanket and the quilt on the bed. As it gets cooler we add more blankets until there’s a big, heavy pile of blankets (up to a max of flannel sheets, 2 thermal blankets, a thick wool blanket, and the quilt). Like vetbridge, we keep the room really cold so the blankets are necessary, and I just love snuggling under lots of heavy blankets on a cold night.
I change the sheets and rally make the bed with hospital corners and tucking in on three sides on my day off. For the rest of the week I straighten the bed every morning which is close to making it without tucking in the sides. I use a queen bedspread on our full bed so the untucked sheets are completely covered.
Add me to the list of Dopers who have clutter elsewhere but keep the bed as a sort of island of calm in the middle of that.
Oddly, this is one of the few things that the wife I have have regular tiffs about. I do not make the bed unless company is coming over and, depending on the company, sometimes I don’t even make it then. My wife, on the other hand, makes the bed even after taking a short nap, and if she lays on the bed to read she’ll straighten the bed out when she gets up.
Of course, being the wise and clever fella that I am, I occasionally make the bed to get brownie points.
But the catch is I don’t always bother in the morning. Sometimes I don’t bother until late evening. It’s not a cosmetic issue, I just hate going to sleep in an unmade bed.
I don’t tuck in sheets and plump pillows and all that jazz every day, but I do generally pull up the top sheet and quilt. 1) I like the feeling of smooth sheets under and over me when I crawl into bed at night. 2) If the sheets are left exposed, our older dog will leave coarse hair, dander, and various bits of much she’s gathered from the outside on my sheets. Then they’re not smooth and cozy any more. 3) My husband can destroy a bed faster than anyone I’ve ever met. If I don’t pull the bedding up and smooth it a bit every day, I’m having to strip it all off to undo the tangle every other day or so. Thirty seconds every day is much faster than three minutes every other day.
