making the bed

RasTa · 25-07-2017 10:29AM

Why on earth would you make the bed considering you're just going to mess it up again in less than 24hrs.

Lorelli! · 25-07-2017 10:33AM

I can't get dressed unless the bed is made.

pickarooney · 25-07-2017 10:38AM

RasTa wrote: »

Why on earth would you make the bed considering you're just going to mess it up again in less than 24hrs.

Why brush your teeth when you're only going to eat again in a few hours?

RasTa · 25-07-2017 10:40AM

pickarooney wrote: »

Why brush your teeth when you're only going to eat again in a few hours?

Well that makes no sense.

PandaPoo · 25-07-2017 10:44AM

Never make the bed, in fact most of the time the duvet is half on the bed half on the floor. Doesn't bother me in the slightest, whereas my mother is militant about bed making. She has all sorts of sheets and blankets folded every which way, it's like a straight jacket. No thanks.

Wake up, fling duvet off, go about my day.

razorblunt · 25-07-2017 10:51AM

I only use the duvet, no sheet underneath it so it's a 1 min job mostly.
Leave it folded back to air it out and make it fresh at night during the summer, lovely.

whoopsadoodles · 25-07-2017 11:06AM

razorblunt wrote: »

I only use the duvet, no sheet underneath it so it's a 1 min job mostly.
Leave it folded back to air it out and make it fresh at night during the summer, lovely.

You use a mattress sheet though right?.....right??

Couldn't be arsed with all the fluffy pillows and seven blankets and the likes. Duvet. Four pillows. Fitted mattress sheet.

It takes absolutely shag all time to straighten and smooth out the duvet. Two pillows under, and two pillows on top.

The room looks spotless then and getting into a made bed is far far nicer a feeling.

I hate when you go to a hotel and you come back to the room before the bed maker uppers have been. Place looks like sh*t. I'd go back out rather than get into the crumpledy bed.

Alf Veedersane · 25-07-2017 11:12AM

I throw the duvet back to get out of bed. Then do the reverse when I'm out et voila, the bed is made.

WoollyRedHat · 25-07-2017 11:12AM

Somewhat. I can't wait to get a robot that does this for me though. Don't get me started on trying to get a duvet into the sheet, it can be such an ordeal. Dante's seventh layer of hell I do believe.

Alf Veedersane · 25-07-2017 11:14AM

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Don't get me started on trying to get a duvet into the sheet, it can be such an ordeal. Dante's seventh layer of hell I do believe.

Turn the cover inside out, put your hands in at the bottom corner, grab the duvet by the bottom corner, shake the cover down over the duvet and win at life.

Takes about 30 seconds.

PandaPoo · 25-07-2017 11:16AM

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

It takes absolutely shag all time to straighten and smooth out the duvet. Two pillows under, and two pillows on top.

The room looks spotless then and getting into a made bed is far far nicer a feeling.

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I'm the opposite. I like getting into a messy bed. It's not about time either, just what I prefer. Yes it looks messy, but nobody sees it so who cares.

whoopsadoodles · 25-07-2017 11:25AM

PandaPoo wrote: »

I'm the opposite. I like getting into a messy bed. It's not about time either, just what I prefer. Yes it looks messy, but nobody sees it so who cares.

I see it!

(Mine, not yours, that'd be creepy

)

Kimbot · 25-07-2017 11:26AM

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

I see it!

(Mine, not yours, that'd be creepy )

Or exciting if your Pandapoo :P

Bambi985 · 25-07-2017 11:31AM

Honestly it would throw off my whole day if I left the house with the bed unmade or knew that my OH had left it unmade. It's like going to work without having a shower or if you forgot to brush your teeth or something. You just feel...off.

It makes the room look like a pigsty and it makes the prospect of getting into it 100% less enticing personally. Just make your bloody bed! It takes 30 seconds and is part and parcel of being a responsible bloody human. This is actually annoying me. Why is this even a question, assuming everyone here is more than five years old. MAKE YOUR BLOODY BEDS AH!

Boom_Bap · 25-07-2017 11:34AM

I always straighten up the pillows (well, reclaim mine that have been stolen during the night) and shake and smooth out the duvet.
Mrs. Bap believes in an unmade bed.
I reckon it's either that or the dishwasher that will ultimately be the downfall of us

I then have to decide if I want to start a barney with the kids about getting them to do theirs or to just do it myself.

Kimbot · 25-07-2017 11:35AM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I always straighten up the pillows (well, reclaim mine that have been stolen during the night) and shake and smooth out the duvet.

But you said I could have the pillows babe :P

Ah I fall out of bed in the mornings, but I do manage to make the bed and all before I dart out the door to work. I used to never make it but a few years ago I just started making it out of nowhere and its stuck ever since.

o1s1n · 25-07-2017 11:40AM

You'd swear duvets didn't exist and 'making a bed' involved the intricate folding of 10 layers of blankets.

It takes about a minute to to re-position a duvet and pillows. Makes the room look clean and not like a teenagers hovel :pac:

Boom_Bap · 25-07-2017 11:41AM

jonnycivic wrote: »

But you said I could have the pillows babe :P

Ah I fall out of bed in the mornings, but I do manage to make the bed and all before I dart out the door to work. I used to never make it but a few years ago I just started making it out of nowhere and its stuck ever since.

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LadyMacBeth_ · 25-07-2017 11:41AM

I like to cut out unnecessary tasks. I have the time for them, I just don't see the purpose or see them as a waste of time. I rarely iron either, I iron some work clothes now and then and that's about it. Couldn't be arsed. Being an adult means I can choose not to do these things, since I spent my teenage years ironing for the family in order to earn my pocket money! My mum had me iron her pyjamas and the duvet covers and table cloths, I mean who even cares? Can't see the point at all.

Dial Hard · 25-07-2017 11:42AM

RasTa wrote: »

Well that makes no sense.

It's the exact same logic you used.

LadyMacBeth_ · 25-07-2017 11:43AM

Dial Hard wrote: »

It's the exact same logic you used.

Brushing your teeth helps to keep them healthy, removing food and preventing plaque, it's needed for hygiene purposes and if you want to keep your teeth. It also prevents bad breath which is not something you need when you're conversing with others. What exactly does making the bed achieve? Keeps the bed healthy?

Dial Hard · 25-07-2017 11:44AM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I reckon it's either that or the dishwasher that will ultimately be the downfall of us .

I live with my sister and one of these days she will be bludgeoned to death with an improperly-loaded dishwasher item.

Guffy · 25-07-2017 11:46AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgzLzbd-zT4

mrcheez · 25-07-2017 11:49AM

Nope, you should always leave the covers off the bed to let the mattress "breathe", but I'd make the bed in the evening before getting into bed (unless I was lazy)

pickarooney · 25-07-2017 11:58AM

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

Brushing your teeth helps to keep them healthy, removing necessary food and preventing plaque. It also prevents bad breath which is not something you need when you're conversing with others. What exactly does making the bed achieve? Keeps the bed healthy?

That wasn't the point rased though. The point was
Why do task X when it will be undone later
Not
Why do task X when it has no benefit (beyond the visual improvement and comfort experienced by some posters)

Ciaran_B · 25-07-2017 12:01PM

If the duvet isn't on the floor then the bed is made.

whoopsadoodles · 25-07-2017 01:14PM

mrcheez wrote: »

Nope, you should always leave the covers off the bed to let the mattress "breathe", )

You can do that neatly though!

PandaPoo · 25-07-2017 01:21PM

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

You can do that neatly though!

Or you can fling it on the floor :P

Winterlong · 25-07-2017 01:23PM

The bed gets made in our house. I would feel like I was not coping with life if I didn't.

But who cares, each to their own.

myshirt · 25-07-2017 01:26PM

If you were in the Marines in the US and didn't make your bed pristinely they would give you an absolute asses beating.

Ever wonder what the logic was behind that?

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