to never make the bed?

[CailinDana]

Well, am I?

Oh god, really Sparkling? Really?

Yes, I throw the covers back so the beds can air and make them later. Absolutely no dressing though.

Resolutely no dressing here. WHY go to the effort of pretty scatter cushions, throws, teddies, rose petals and the like to tHen have to remove the lot before you can lay down? Maybe someone can enlighten me?

No YANBU. Making beds is a waste of time, like ironing

Ask Blushingcrow to lay flat on your clothes

Job done!

Oh most probably definitely Cailin.

Bedbugs and dust mites are not the same thing. Airing will do nothing against bedbugs but stops dust mites thriving.

I think 'dressing' the bed is an old fashioned term for 'making' the bed.

My Mum always said she was 'dressing' the bed when infact she meant making it (or maybe an Irish thing?)

Anyway, nowadays dressing it means with cushions and shit...but it didn't used to mean that.

In that case if I ever vanish into thin air (suppose it would have to be fat air, given my girth) I will be the subject of salacious gossip, and might even attract my own judgey-pants mumsnet thread!

I make mine about an hour before I go to bed. I cannot stand getting into an unmade bed, but in the mornings am too sleepy still to care less enough to make it then.

For whose benefit is the dressing? And does the stuff just lay on the floor until the bed is made again? Don't you trip over it when you get up?

Yeah, worra, by dressing the bed I mean putting clean sheets on. "Making" the bed involves putting the covers straight, and making look and neat n' shit.

I can't leave the house in the morning without the bed being made You bunch of scuzzers!

Apparently in some hotels instead of changing the sheets they 'pull and pluck' which involves pulling the bottom sheet tight and plucking any pubes off it. All ready for the next guest. .

I used to be a chambermaid in a basic but nice hotel and we did change the sheets but we never ever changed the bedspread. Ever.

That is minging Caillin

Will never leave my home again!

Yes, the bedspread in a hotel room should be immediately removed from the bed and banished to the closet. Or at least, that's what I do. (makes things difficult if it's the only blanket for the bed, in that case I leave it on but only pulled up about halfway)

Were you like Cailin?

I can't imagine getting into bed ever being anything other than a joy-filled experience. Sleep and/or sex.

I can't imagine that being spoilt by a crumpled sheet

Yup, sparkling, that was me, except my uniform wasn't quite that snazzy.

. Cailin

Bet it was bloody hard work. Changing beds is like a workout.

It was the most tiring job imaginable. We had to clean 20 rooms in 8 hours which sounds easy until you realise you have to dust every single surface, scrub the bathroom, hoover the whole place, tidy any mess and change the bed. I was very fit!

I bet you saw some sights too......

I make mine in winter cos its warmer to get into but not in summer when I just straighten bottom sheet and fold duvet back.

YCNBU whichever you do because things like this don't really matter!

The main sight I saw was disgustingly filthy rooms from supposedly respectable people. Strangely women in their 30s were the worst culprits by far - one pair of "ladies" from Dublin who took every opportunity to sneer at me left their room in such an incredibly horrible condition that I had to ask the manager to get someone in to help me. Stag nights usually resulted in an almost pristine room - the lads barely saw the inside of the place

I don't make it but do

I don't make it but do plump the pillows, smooth the sheets and fold back the duvet so it airs.