Do you make your bed?

It's like words have lost all meaning. Horrified at strangers not straightening a duvet?

I fold the duvet back to thoroughly air the bed. Getting up, showering then making the bed is unhygienic, you sweat so much in the night you need to let that evaporate out of the bedding.

Never.
Only DH and I go in the bedroom and I dont see the point. It just never occurs to me.

Never at the moment. When I'm feeling really on top of things I do it every day for a while but then it falls out of habit again 😂 it really makes me feel like I'm winning at life when I do it!

What is there to actually 'make'?
I get out of bed, leave the duvet thrown back (sometimes haphazardly, sometimes neat-ishly) while I get myself ready, then put it back straight before I leave the bedroom. No effort involved at all.

Oldest is severely autistic, middle is on the waiting list to be assessed and the youngest is a toddler. All like getting on the beds, pulling blankets over themselves, lying in bed reading, playing on their beds and the youngest loves climbing in the bed and burrowing under sheets.

It is zero point other than for aesthetic in our home to make the bed. The only times we make the bed is when we were trying to sell our home.

I made the bed as a child but didn’t feel any differently whether it was made or not as I got older.

I used to when I was working.

Now I'm retired I open the windows and fling the duvet back over the bottom of the bed to air in.

Then I go in later in the afternoon and make the bed. I don't like to go up at bedtime to a messy bed.

No.

Never, ever. Well - I do for estate agents photos or if someone is viewing my house. So I haven't made my bed for over 21 years now.

I do mine during one of my stretch breaks on WFH days or after i have had breakfast on the other days.

Creases in the bedding are hiding places for monsters.

Every day. Get up, let it air while I shower and get ready and then make it, it's literally a couple of minutes a day.

Ridiculous.

I'm 57. I don't live in any sory of squalor, nor am I depressed. I just can't see any point making a bed you're getting back into later or opening curtains you just need to close again later.
I open the living room curtains.

It really is only on Mumsnet that people get het up about this stuff.

I always make my bed - even as a teenager, I always made my bed before school even though I wasn't told to.

I love the look of a made bed, although in the day, I fold the duvet over to let the bed air and plump a nice pile of 4 pillows of varying softness on each side so I can make a "reading nest" for myself - I love my bed.

I actually pull it back , spray, then air ( always have windows open) then I make it properly once I’ve finished getting ready.

all the kids have to make their beds before anyone goes anywhere.

I agree with @Negroany, I’m not a depressed or edgy teen or 20 something, I just genuinely don’t see the point when I will be messing it up again tonight, it gets left in whatever state it’s in. Doesn’t affect my mental health or my state of mind

Are you very young? You sound like a desperately edgy adolescent.

I remember being like this as a rather sad, slightly depressed teen and in my 20s. Living in a not-quite squalid mess that was symptomatic of my state of mind.

I pull it back to air it and then make it when I think about. It does look so much nicer when I make an effort. I have a white teddy that my mum bought when Woollies closed, he sits on my side when it's made. She's been gone nearly 30 years so I always think about her when arranging Ted.

Every day, but for me I think it was a forces thing. Was always taught that making the bed is the first job of the day, by making your bed you’ve completed the first job of the day and off to a good start.

But generally each to their own. My wife doesn’t, so if I’m first out, it’s usually not made when I get home haha.

Yes, I currently do make my bed as in fold it back and air it, then fold the duvet back up later.

I meant in a scenario like you say where you are out all day until you get back in it then yes, I’d actually prefer to leave the duvet folded back all day. Yes, I guess just leaving it scrunched up in a pile would have the same effect.

It’s actually tickling me talking this much about it all 😂 your bed and day, so totally up to you.

My eldest child had severe ezcema when he was younger and has a dust mite allergy, so keeping his bed aired and room dust free is especially important to me.

Because people are different and there are pros and cons to making the bed up immediately after waking.

Letting your bedding air out and not covering it every day helps with the reduction of dust mites.

It’s also pointless in my home because it doesn’t stay made in the first place and we don’t use duvets when it is warm anyway.

I make it and count the stripes on the duvet to be sure it is perfectly centred. Arrange the cushions.
Yes I do have issues.

I shake out the duvet from the end of the bed, so it straightens up and looks fairly neat. So a 2 second making the bed. But I don’t spend ages tucking sheets in and putting lots of fancy pillows on or anything like that.

So, you don't "make it" then?

I'm not a homemaker in any sense of the term, and I have more interesting things to do than think about making a bed that only I sleep in anyway. Once I've gig up, that's it until I go to bed.

Surely no more is exposed for airing when folded back than when I just leave it how it was what I got out of it? So, the impact is the same whether I fold it or just leave it.

I always air mine, widow open for a couple of hours, but always make it, every day

Definitely keep curtains closed during hot weather, all my curtains and blinds stay closed and the house stays much, much cooler.