What's on your spare bed when not in use?

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I don't like the idea of it getting all dusty if left uncovered when not in use, but bedspreads seem so 80s to me. Suggestions please?

Oh, I thought this was an area to confess to what junk gets piled up there.....

I'll get my coat

Lol backforgood me too. I have a big multicoloured throw I got from Marrakesh on mine, mainly so the cat doesn't get fluff everywhere. Other than that it's usually littered with holiday clothes

Bedspreads are fab and not at all 80s;

www.lauraashley.com/uk/bedspreads+blankets/savoy-duck-egg-bedspread/invt/savoydebb

m.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-scandi-reversible-quilted-bedspread/spruce/p/3194520?size=l260-x-w250cm

m.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-boutique-hotel-art-deco-fan-bedspread/p/3035577?sku=236545503&s_kwcid=2dx92700022664262831&tmad=c&tmcampid=2&gclid=CjwKCAjwuITNBRBFEiwA9N9YELqSSCvr2LKL7dtsHXXdwuMgsBkWn2CMoRcgE_tWIB0K8JYmo6XPDRoCU64QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

DH chucks a load of junk in there and it drives me to distraction

Haha, I came here thinking the same as backforgood

Mine is usually always made up, sometimes with a pile of clean laundry on top.

Oh, I thought this was an area to confess to what junk gets piled up there

Me too!!

I'll post anyway. A ladder, a bag for life filled with Christmas ornaments, a bag of clothes for the charity shop. Possibly a cat.

DS (3) called our spare room the "cloak room" this week - I think that tells you all you need to know!

The cat usually.

A pile of unfolded clean laundry...hopefully they are protecting it from the dust when not in use!

I don't have anything on ours. We just make the bed up and shake it all out/hoover as appropriate when we have guests over. I do have a tendency to leave clothes on a couple of them though- usually when I've been looking through the wardrobe for something that fits!

Phew. Glad it's not just me.

I didn't think of the dust...be we use ours quite regularly so I guess it's not that much if a problem.

A mountain of washing ready to be put away or ironed

And it's a pain in the ass when someone comes to stay and you have to find homes for all the shite you have accumulated there!!

Mine's only clear because a friend has just gone home after a week's stay! Some school uniform that needs name tags, a laptop cable, a random bit of artwork and a few bits of paperwork have accumulated in the last 24 hours! I'd just like it if they were on top of something pretty instead of the mattress protector

Serf I like that art deco one, lovely.

Normally, folded laundry.

As the end of the year gets closer, Christmas decorations and unwrapped gifts.

When it's completely clear ... a bouncing autistic 8yo.

The top carrier off the car (apart from the odd week that we use it). We really didn't think through where we were going to store it when we bought it!
Underneath that I have a bedspread

We have a bedspread on our spare bed. It is basically a protective layer between the made up bed and whatever crap I need to pile on top of it.

One spare bed is made up ready for this week's visitors, the other is hidden under DD's belongings awaiting her eventual move into her house 🙂