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What's Normal? - Does Your Bed Get Made Most Days? (1 Viewer)

Does Your Bed Get Made Most Days?

  • Yes

    Votes: 66 49.3%

  • No

    Votes: 68 50.7%
  • Total voters
    134
I never understood the making of the bed if I'm just coming home and getting right back in it. And I'm a pretty neat/orderly person

My wife goes in spurts she'll make it every day for a couple weeks then not at all
 
Either I or my wife make it daily, depending on who gets out of bed last.

Even if it were just me, I'd probably make it daily just to avoid being too complacent (which I am in too many other ways).
 
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Yes, primarily to keep the dog out of my side of the bed. Wife will get up after me and is 50/50 on making her side, but I'll finish making it after she's up.

When I was a kid, I had to make my bed every day. Went to college and lived like a typical college student and never made my bed. Then in my mid-20's I started making my bed again. Probably will continue until I die.
 
I've made my bed every day since I was a teenager (on my own accord, not enforced by parents or anything). I can't be in a room with an unmade bed - makes me feel super anxious. When traveling, I make the hotel bed as soon as I wake up, even if I'm checking out. Yes, I have issues.
 
After reading a bunch of the responses I may need a definition of what people think is "making the bed". I will typically pull the sheet, blanket, comforter up and straighten them up a bit so it looks made. It takes 10 seconds to do this. I don't tuck in anything or do anthing more unless the feet area of the sheet comes out. Then that will get retucked but that isn't very often.

If by some chance I just got up and didn't come back to straightening the bed I will always do it before I get into bed because it feels better getting into a bed that has the sheets/blankets straightend out and in an orderly fashion. I sleep a lot better if I start that way.

So what constitutes a "made bed"?
 
belljr said:
I never understood the making of the bed if I'm just coming home and getting right back in it. And I'm a pretty neat/orderly person

My wife goes in spurts she'll make it every day for a couple weeks then not at all
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I sleep better when the sheets/blankets are straightened out so I am getting in a "clean" bed rather than just a jumble of blankets and sheets etc.
 
I make sure my blanket is generally on the bed. Does that count?

I wanted to vote yes, it is good enough for me. However the majority of people here would probably not call that making the bed.

I only have 1 blanket and no sheet, it is impossible to have too big of mess.
 
Not usually. No one ever goes into our bedroom but the two of us, and we're only in there to sleep, get ready for the day, and sexy time, so no need for a consistently made bed.
I can't stand sleeping in tight, tucked in covers. And in the summer, I just have a sheet on my side of the bed (wife likes her blanket no matter what), so it would seem silly to me to go through the effort of "making" it every morning only to have to "unmake" it every night.
 
Keerock said:
I voted no. My wife will make it occasionally, but not most days. I literally never make it.
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Same answer, here. I never make it. She makes it when we're having company, which is probably only once every couple of weeks, or if she's feeling in a cleaning mood. The cleaning lady who comes once every couple of weeks will make it as well. But that's not "most" days.
 
Before covid, i used to kinda “tidy up” my bed so that it didn’t look completely messy—but when Covid started and I was working from home a greater percentage of the time—I got into properly making it every day. It’s funny—but since I started doing that—it’s kinda bled over to where I started to completely take the entire organization of the house to the next level.
 
everyday...one of the things my wife brought to the relationship. However she lets my kids slide?

that said she's going away for a week so we will see how many days it happens. lol
 
Ilov80s said:
Pretty much everyday but it’s my wife that does it. When she’s out of town, I kind of half *** make it.
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That’s the baller move. Just leave all the pillows and the blanket on the other side intact, and with a quick flip, your own side is made in the morning.
 
Yes, every morning, almost without exception. Def north of 350 days a year, possible >360.

If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small, simple pride and encourage you to do another task, and another, and another. By the end of the day that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed.

OTOH some people need to learn that it's OK to leave it unmade. If it's an OCD type thing then you may not know how to relax or let things go; it's not about making the bed, it's about understanding yourself.

Making the bed everyday works well for me, but I don't consider my reasons for doing it universal to all.

edit: I shouldn't take credit, wifey gets up last every day and she makes it. but when I lived alone I did it daily so in theory...
 
Only for company. My wife and I work different schedules, she joins me for my last couple of hours of sleep in the morning. By the time she wakes up I'm going to hit the hay in a few hours.
 
BobbyLayne said:
belljr said:
Keerock said:
Gally said:
So what constitutes a "made bed"?
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Gotta be tucked for it to be made IMO
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What if you don't tuck when you normally make the bed :unsure:
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the tuck
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That's totally me. First thing I do before getting into a hotel bed is to untuck the sheets on my side (but I have to do it right or it pulls out the bottom sheet as well and then my wife gets upset at me) and take off that top blanket. It's bad enough how hot it invariably gets in a hotel room in the middle of the night (no matter how cool it feels when I go to sleep), but make me sleep in one of those tucked in beds with all those heavy blankets, you might as well put me on a sub to the Titanic or something.
 
I used to make mine everyday until I recently read something about how bed bugs dust mites love the warm conditions of a made bed. So most mornings I will pull the blankets and sheets from my side of the bed back to the other side to form a triangle to let everything air out. I change my sheets weekly or bi-weekly at worst, but still don't want to chance things.

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Unless someone is coming to my house, no. I’m going to sleep there tonight, why waste the time. Only if the sheets are just jacked up will I make up a bed.
 
Voted yes. I just make sure to flip the comforter back on top, nice and smooth.

But I don't have display pillows. I'm not measuring stuff making sure everything is nice and even down to the centimeter or tucking stuff in.
 
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