I can second this. For years I was one of those people who always had to keep the bedroom door shut because it was in an embarassing state of disorder. Once I started making the bed it seemed to help keeping everything else in order.
I hadn’t really thought about it like that before.
This strikes me as more of a survey than a factual question, so I’ll move this thread to the IMHO forum.
bibliophage
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I make mine every morning. I do so for a host of reasons:
I do it because it makes the room look so much better, and to keep it cleaner. I like to turn down the sheets in the morning to air them out–I open the sliding door to get lots of fresh air–and then I make the bed so the sheets don’t get dusty or icky from kids jumping on them, etc. One day when I forgot to make the bed and it was still turned down, I went in the bedroom to discover my 4-yo daughter and her little friend jumping on the bed–and he was wearing his cowboy boots. Bleah.
People with pets, of course, have even more reason to make their beds. But the simple fact that it makes the room so much more pleasant is worth the 20 seconds of time it takes to do the job. And really, isn’t it a great feeling to turn the blankets down on a nice neat bed and anticipate snuggling down in there? Mmmmm.
By now, I associate unmade beds with unaired, frowsty sheets and blankets. It feels unhygenic to me–I know that’s overdoing it a bit, but it’s true.
I couldn’t care less, however, the missus insists that a nicely made bed is much more comfortable to sleep in – no wrinkly sheets to lie on, the blankets spread evenly across the bed, etc. In fact, if she doesn’t have a chance to make the bed in the morning, she’ll straighten it out immediately before crawling into it at night.
When I was in college living in a very small space, my bed was also my sofa, my couch, my dining table, my space for throwing stuff on. So it was made to be used for something other than sleep. Now I do it out of habit.
I’ll make my bed before I sleep in it at night. I don’t mind looking at an unmade bed, but I can’t stand sheets that aren’t nice and tight. Sometimes in the morning I’ll pull the sheets and down comforter up to the top of the bed, but at night is when I really make it.
StG
Me, too. I was talking to a friend a while ago, and said, “You know, I mean daggy orange 70’s carpet, like we have in our bedroom,” and she said, “I’ve never seen the carpet in your bedroom.” That threw me for a loop, because she used to visit all time time. Then I remember, that was the Bad Old Days. She moved before I got my act together.
Now I leave my bedroom door open without giving it a second thought. (Credit where credit is due.)
I leave the covers open to “air the bed out”, i.e; to let all the nocturnal farts dissipate. Also, my GF always worked a night job and is used to sleeping during the day, and still does. So, there is no motivation for us to make the bed.
Oh, hell; let’s face it: we’re lazy slobs and not especially bothered by the fact.
Heh! I do the exact thing. I can not fall asleep in a bed where all the bedding is askew. I always make my bed right before I get it in every night. And that’s pretty much the only time I make it.
My first evil step-mother used to complain when I didn’t make the bed.
She used to ask me: “How can you even get into an un-made bed?”
I responded “The same way you crawl into your bed when nature calls in the middle of the night”
I wonder how many of you who don’t make up your beds in the morning don’t brush your teeth in the morning if you’re not going out and/or expecting company? Hmmm…
I generally make my bed, unless I’m sleeping in catnaps and expect to be getting back into it soon. I have a 4-poster bed with a canopy and it just looks neat when it’s all made. Plus, I’m a neat freak, and I also like having the covers straightened when I go to bed at night. I have sleeping problems from time to time, and will wake up with pretty much everything ripped up off the bed.
It usually only takes a couple of minutes to do, and just looks so much neater and keeps the covers from just completely migrating to the floor.
My bed is not susceptible to gum disease or tooth decay. And I don’t believe that the sheets I’ve slept in for the past week would be any cleaner for my having straightened them out conscientiously every day. I make my bed when I change the sheets or when I clean and vacuum the bedroom, which means it’s usually made on two days of each week. The rest of the time, I’ll pull the comforter up so that the cats can’t shed on the pillows, but no one would mistake that for actually making the bed.
Ick. I brush my teeth every morning, thank-you-very-much. I just find making the bed to be an incredibly repetitive chore that I don’t get anything out of. I hate doing something just for the sake of doing something. A messy bed doesn’t bother me aesthetically, it makes no difference in my experience when I go to bed at night, the bedroom isn’t generally used except when we’re in bed so it doesn’t get particularly dirty, and I could care less if my friends or family notice through the open door that I don’t make it.
Ironically, I married a man who can’t sleep unless his bed is made just-so. (A mild touch of OCD, I think.) So I’ve ended up making the bed everynight, right before we go to sleep, as an act of kindness to him.
I find sleeping in a neatly arranged bed difficult. It’s just too voluminous. I like my pillows up against me and my comforter tucked under me.
In fact if I could get about 168 cubic feet of pillows to stack on my bed I would worm my way in leaving only my mouth and nose exposed. It’s very womb like,
side note: How weird, womby means roomy.
Or, what jabiru said :smack:
Never done it, never will. Couldn’t care less how it looks, as long as it’s comfortable when I get in it.