Do you care if the bed is made?

Kold

Seems like the biggest waste of time going. Keeping your room tidy? Sure, but what difference does a made bed make? You'd want to be borderline OCD.

wandatowell

I find it hard to leave the house if my bedroom isn't tidy but the the very least have my bed made.


Keep that sh*t fresh yo!

kneemos

I like to have it made unless I'm coming straight from Ikea.

Ruudi_Mentari

You know, I can remember when I was a bed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNdhgXrDiJc

and you can't make that up

Sulla Felix

I like it when it is but not enough to do it.

Ruudi_Mentari

Just put yourself in a beds position

now do you wanna be a made bed or what man...

December2012

If you think straightening a duvet means you are OCD then you've got problems.

Made bed = sexy bed.

Kold

December2012 wrote: »

If you think straightening a duvet means you are OCD then you've got problems.

Made bed = sexy bed.

You're the one claiming that an inanimate object gives you the horn...

viota

i never make my bed.Dont see the point really

December2012

Kold wrote: »

You're the one claiming that an inanimate object gives you the horn...

That's cos Im thinking about making it messy again!

stoneill

Kold wrote: »

You're the one claiming that an inanimate object gives you the horn...

To be quite honest - not just beds.

Czarcasm

It's easier to feel relaxed in when the bed is made, especially in this weather where I've just hopped out of a sweaty bed (memory foam mattress- great for your back but far too warm!) and I don't want to hop back into a sweaty bed tonight so I'll be changing the sheets and covers now in a minute.

Which is literally all it takes btw - Ten minutes to change the bedclothes for a nice fresh bed tonight.

Kold

Nation of slobs.

Potential-Monke

I'd like to say no, but i do like a freshly made bed. But it takes more than 10 minutes. The joys of Superking. Although, for the last few nights all that's on the bed are pillows and a sheet. No duvet. Not in this feckin weather!

tmc86

I never understood the "hassle" involved in making a bed. Some people are so lazy they can't even take 5 seconds to straighten out their duvet! - and that's all it is straightening out a duvet and maybe a pillow or two.

Kold

tmc86 wrote: »

I never understood the "hassle" involved in making a bed. Some people are so lazy they can't even take 5 seconds to straighten out their duvet! - and that's all it is straightening out a duvet and maybe a pillow or two.

Because it doesn't make a difference if you do or don't? Just aesthetic.

tmc86

Kold wrote: »

Because it doesn't make a difference if you do or don't? Just aesthetic.

To some maybe but when I'm about to spend 8 hours in one place trying to get a good sleep ready for the next day, I want a nice clean comfy bed that looks inviting! The aesthetic aspect of a made bed just seems to have more of a positive appeal to me than one that looks as if goldilocks has been sleeping there while I've been at work.

Mr. CooL ICE

I make my bed before i get in, but never after I wake up. Just my little routine to make sure no spiders are present before I sleep.

April O Neill

"Nope", eh?

My sentimonies exactly. :pac:

April O Neill

Czarcasm wrote: »

Which is literally all it takes btw - Ten minutes to change the bedclothes for a nice fresh bed tonight.

Ten minutes? In the morning? I don't have that extra time to spare!

April O Neill

Kold wrote: »

Nation of slobs.

Don't be so hard on yourself, hun. xoxoxoxox

calanus

Czarcasm wrote: »

Which is literally all it takes btw - Ten minutes to change the bedclothes for a nice fresh bed tonight.

That's another level to bed aesthetics with the changing of actual bedclothes. That's a 4 times a year job right there.

Mariasofia

April O Neill wrote: »

Ten minutes? In the morning? I don't have that extra time to spare!

.....and if I did Id rather spend it on a quickie than making the bed

hawkeyethenoo

bed bugs are attracted to neatly made beds. safer to keep it messy. thats my excuse anyway

Artful_Badger

Its the same as anything, you dont have to make the bed same way as you dont have to throw your dirty clothes into the clothes basket. Just boils down to whether you want the room to look tidy or not and whether you give enough of a shít.

Sometimes I keep the place tidy and sometimes I dont.

caustic 1

It just looks good all right, a duvet all over the place looks messy, a made bed makes room look nice and getting into a bed where you have to sort out duvet and pillows I can never get same nights sleep as I do when I get into a nice fresh bed. Ahhhh .

Plazaman

Does anyone find that when you are making your bed in the morning, you'll always have a nut, bolt or washer left over. Stupid IKEA and their daft inctructions, it's so time consuming.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I make my bed once a week, when I change my sheets.

tiny_penguin

I never used to make my bed. Then when I moved in with my boyfriend he started making it - he usually gets up after me. Now I think even if he wasn't there I would make the effort - it is worth it!

Stinicker

Usually one of us cooks breakfast whilst the other makes the bed, we take turns, any man or woman who can't make a bed is pretty pathetic to be fair. One of the first things in the army is the inspection of how well you have made your bed usually by the drill sergeant.

Would people here be happy if housekeeping did not make their beds in hotels I wonder?

krudler

I'd usually make it yeah, long as it isnt in a heap, I'd hate on of those beds with a duvet, then a cover over than to be folded with military precision, then a load of decorative pillows to be taken off every night, fcuk that.

Miss Lockhart

Yes I care, but it's just a fitted sheet and a duvet so it's hardly much effort.

GLaDOS

Never bother, unless I'm changing the sheets. Only going to be getting back into it anyway and it'll be messy again.

Drives my girlfriend insane

rubadub

Kold wrote: »

Nation of slobs.

Or efficient people who want to make better use of their time, and do not just blindly follow traditions.

Stinicker wrote: »

any man or woman who can't make a bed is pretty pathetic to be fair.

Fair enough, if they can't, which is different than won't. I know a OCD lad who irons his boxer shorts & socks, I find that pathetic.

Stinicker wrote: »

Would people here be happy if housekeeping did not make their beds in hotels I wonder?

I would be pleased to see the option. I was happy to see in a hotel I was in a while ago they had a card/notice on the bed that you left on the bed if you did not want it touched. They were passing this off as an ecofriendly type thing, using the same sheets more than once. I hate hotels that tuck everything extremely tightly.

PizzamanIRL

I don't make my bed, I'm just going to get into it and mess it around again later that day. The only time I do anything with it is when it looks like its nearly in a ball or hanging off the mattress.

That said, it does look nice when its made, but not worth the effort.

Akrasia

I've nothing against a nicely made bed but i Hate those feckin curtain ties!!

We have curtains with a draw string like most houses, but instead of using them the way they were designed, to quickly and easily open or close the curtains from one location, I have to climb and reach over the bed at full back crippling stretch to reach the hook in the corner of the room to undo the curtain tie and then go back over to the draw string so I can open the curtains in the morning.

About the actual bed itself, Whats with all the feckin cushions? And you'd better not make the mistake of trying to sleep on one of them or you'll be sleeping on the couch instead

My mother in law makes her bed as though she has a secret double life as a bondage dominatrix. The sheets are so tight that you can't move and there are so many layers and sheets that if you get into it wrong, you can get tangled up. It's like a snare, the more you struggle, the tighter it gets and soon you've passed out from restricted blood pressure. Fine, you do get a good rest while you're passed out and suffering from Cerebral hypoxia, but wouldn't it be easier if she just used one simple duvet?

caustic 1

That said, it does look nice when its made, but not worth the effort.

If taking two minutes to throw up a duvet involves effort jeez knows how you feel when ye have to work.

--Kaiser--

Clean bedclothes = yes
Tidy bed = who gives a ****

Czarcasm

April O Neill wrote: »

Ten minutes? In the morning? I don't have that extra time to spare!

I was about to say "but, but, if you get up ten minutes earlier... and then I read -

Mariasofia wrote: »

.....and if I did Id rather spend it on a quickie than making the bed

Puts me in my place! :pac:

FloatingVoter

I find that once I've had my afternoon nap on top of it, the bed sort of straightens itself out. I'm bone idle by the way.

Autonomous Cowherd

Made what?

Kold

I wonder what some of the bedmakers think if they find themselves in someone else's bed and it isn't made?

Czarcasm

Kold wrote: »

I wonder what some of the bedmakers think if they find themselves in someone else's bed and it isn't made?

Their bed, their rules, puts me right off though

I despise getting into an unmade bed. I change the sheets twice weekly + in hot weather and everything gets a good shake and an airing before it's made every morning. There's something very civilised about coming home to a tidy place and a neat bedroom.

Ihatecuddles-old

In my own bed I'll throw the duvet on the bed, relatively neatly. No hospital corners.

In my boyfriends, we wake up and get ready then end up wrecking the bed looking for one of our phones.

I find messy beds really inviting. I hate freshly made beds. First thing I do in a hotel is drag the duvet off and mess it up.

Kold

Kold wrote: »

I wonder what some of the bedmakers think if they find themselves in someone else's bed and it isn't made?

I'd be thinking 'lazy git'.

KTRIC

It takes me literally 5 seconds to make my bed, usually do it before I leave the house in the morning unless I'm in a serious hurry.

looksee

I like a 'made' bed, it usually happens later than sooner, but has to be made before I get in. I totally don't understand those decorative cushions on beds though, honestly, what are they about?

FloatingVoter

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

In my boyfriends, we wake up and get ready then end up wrecking the bed looking for one of our phones.

..you should have left that bit out and let us use our imaginations.

humbert

Czarcasm wrote: »

It's easier to feel relaxed in when the bed is made, especially in this weather where I've just hopped out of a sweaty bed (memory foam mattress- great for your back but far too warm!) and I don't want to hop back into a sweaty bed tonight so I'll be changing the sheets and covers now in a minute.

Which is literally all it takes btw - Ten minutes to change the bedclothes for a nice fresh bed tonight.

If that's literally all it takes you must have an enormous mountain of dirty bedclothes lying beside your bed.

Czarcasm

humbert wrote: »

If that's literally all it takes you must have an enormous mountain of dirty bedclothes lying beside your bed.

:eek:


I figure nobody keeps their dirty bedclothes beside their bed, come on now, they'd stink out the bedroom! No I or my wife would put them in the laundry basket and the launderette guy collects all the stuff on a Saturday evening and drops them back Monday morning.