Do you make your bed?

[Flora73]

I do, every day. It looks so untidy and I love getting into a made bed.

But I was talking to a friend earlier and she never does. So just wondered what the general consensus was.

Make your bed (at least 5 days out of 7) = You are not being unreasonable

Don’t make your bed = You are being unreasonable

No.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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

I dont make it formally, btu fold the sheet and duvet/bedspread down so it airs

Then just pull up at night

I used to rarely ever do it. Then I had a child and mental health went to shit a bit and I started to implement a load of habits to sort myself out, making my bed being one of them. Get those achievement / satisfaction chemicals working in the brain first thing in the morning and it sets the tone.

I have never not made my bed, I could not think of anything worse than leaving the house with un made beds. My dc have bunk beds with about 5 million teddies, cushions and squishmallows on. I must easily spend about half an hour making the bunk bed every morning! I also like the duvets pulled very tightly with no creases at all, and all cushions have a correct place!

This is it. I think for years I felt “above” people who kept a tidy home - so boring and uncreative! What a load of bollocks. Light, tidy rooms are really uplifting and calming. Manna for the soul. And making a bed these days hardly takes 10 seconds.

Why? What do you think happens? I haven't made my bed, other than when the sheets are changed, since I was in my late teens but still manage to be a functioning member of society.

You seem to be easily horrified.

My exH used to say that. But he also didn’t shower before bed and never changed the 50 years old bedding either. As if letting it all to dry made it less filthy.

Half an hour??
I couldn’t spend anything like that amount of time if I tried!

I pull Duvet back & leave it to air, something about dust mites get killed by sunlight that shines directly on it

Not really as I generally am the first one up and DH leaves the sheet/duvet pulled back. One of us will often flip it back when home from work though.

only have a sheet at the money

moment!

Does everyone else with a partner get up at exactly the same time as them?

It wouldn't occur to me not to. My room is a lovely space where I go to relax sometimes - a beautifully made bed is part of the joy of the room.

I don't spend ages, but I pull the fitted sheet taught and re-tuck it anywhere that needs to be tightened up. I plump all the pillows in both directions so the feathers and all fluffy. I pull the duvet up so it's nice and smooth, shake and drop the runner across the bottom of the bed, stack our couple of cushions and I even sometimes drop a single drop of lavender oil in the pillows. Takes about five minutes and pays me back x100000 every time I get into bed at night.

Yes without fail - DH was the save before we met too - bedroom needs to be a haven with half our motley crew still hanging in for dear life at home banging about making a mess!

interestingly its rule number 1 in Jordan Petersons 12 times/ steps to being better man ( or whatever the self -help book is called)
I guess the idea is similar to ‘look after the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves’ - order, self discipline, creating good habits that follow on for the day etc

I would be embarrassed if anyone was over and saw unmade beds.
Bedroom windows are open 99% of the time unless the weathers really stormy. Pull back the duvet when we wake, shower and do hair/make up then make the bed before getting dressed.

It’s the one thing I do religiously. I have ADHD and it did take my to late 20s/early 30s to manage to do it daily.

I always make the bed - it looks better all day and feels better when you get in again. It's so easy now with duvets - not like when you had to struggle with tucking in sheets and straightening loads of blankets etc.