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Why are we obsessed with making our beds?

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  • 27-04-2016 12:07pm
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    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭


    Is it just because it looks neat? Who's it looking neat for? I'm usually the only person in my room but I know I wouldn't judge someone else on the state of their bed.

    Is their some secret I'm not aware of whereby bed bugs don't like made beds?

    Do you have kids and do you insist they make their beds? Why? I never understood my own parents obsession with the tidiness of my bed, if it was to instill a sense of tidiness in me, it was completely unsuccessful.


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    Squall Leonhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Squall Leonhart


    As my father always said, I'm not asking you to make your bed, it's already made, I'm asking you to dress your bed!!!


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    Alf Stewart.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,789 ✭✭✭Alf Stewart.


    Shopping in Ikea has its drawbacks.


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    smash
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    In case you get hit by a bus!



    Oh wait, that's fresh underwear.... So the house looks nice for robbers?


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    2smiggy
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    a well dressed bed is more comfortable to get into, rather than dragging a crumbled up duvet(s) over yourself, IMO anyway :)


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    The Backwards Man
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    It's so bats can't get in under the covers and come flying out at you when you're going to bed.


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    Kovu
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    We're obsessed with making our beds? :confused:

    I sleep under a quilt, I don't do sheets apart from the one on the mattress so it takes me 2 seconds to straighten the quilt.


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    RobertKK
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    Are we?


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    Samaris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    It's so bats can't get in under the covers and come flying out at you when you're going to bed.

    You can tell you live in the country when nesting bats in your bed is a concern! :D


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    o1s1n
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    Master of the Universe


    I assume this means you must never really take any women home.


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    Speedwell
    Registered Users Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭Speedwell


    I don't know either. When I was a teenager in the hot American South, and I first became conscious of sweating at night, I always wanted to air my bed, so I would fold the sheet and summer quilt over the footboard and prop the pillows vertically against the headboard. My mother saw the point, but it drove my fussy father round the bend.

    If company was coming over, and I expected them to stay overnight, I would make the guest bed up fresh for them. In the meantime it has just a throw over it for dust.


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    gutenberg
    Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭gutenberg


    Well, interestingly enough, there are some theories which say that not making your bed is in fact healthier overall, as the 'warm and dry' conditions of an unmade bed are unattractive to dust mites, and in fact they are unable to survive. Making the bed keeps the sheets slight damp from you having slept in them, which enables the mites to thrive.

    I've never made my bed, used to drive my parents scatty :pac: Now I feel justified :p
    I do appreciate that from an aesthetic point of view, a freshly-made bed is very appealing to climb into.

    Source for dust mites claim: here


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    iguana
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 12,915 Mod ✭✭✭✭iguana


    I have a bungalow and my bedroom is at the front of the house. Anyone coming to my front door will see if my bed is made or not. So if I want to open my curtains I have to make my bed.

    Some days I don't open my curtains.


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    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Ah let me tell you now lads making yoru bed will always stand to you. The amount of drop dead gorgeous women I've brought back to my house only to have them turn tail and flee as soon as they spied my unmade bed.

    Sure no wonder we've so many proverbs about unmade beds in Ireland.

    "You need an unmade bed like a hole in the head."
    "Straighten up them sheets if you want your day to be complete."
    "Pull up the duvet if you want her to get groovay."

    I could go on....


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    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    I never make my bed, just re-adjust the quilt when re-entering, does my OH's head in :pac::pac::pac:


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    The Backwards Man
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    You'll never win her over if you don't puff that pillow cover


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    RobertKK
    Registered Users Posts: 33,740 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    It's so bats can't get in under the covers and come flying out at you when you're going to bed.
    Samaris wrote: »
    You can tell you live in the country when nesting bats in your bed is a concern! :D

    Around 8 or 9 years ago my mother was in bed, she had gone to bed early, next thing I heard screams. Her room was dark so not knowing what was crawling next to her head, had her terrified. :pac:
    Right next to her head was this really big bat. So I came to the rescue and removed the pillow with the bat.

    She had her bed made, didn't stop the bat...


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    #18
    fussyonion
    Registered Users Posts: 7,819 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Because it makes your room looks tidy.
    I take pride in my home and like every room to be clean, tidy and presentable.
    By leaving the bed unmade, it makes the room look messy.

    It's all about making things look organised and in order.
    I do air the bed in the morning though, by taking the duvet off, and the pillows and opening the window, but I go back in an hour or two later and make the bed.


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    gifted
    Registered Users Posts: 4,891 ✭✭✭gifted


    Make the bed???...ah here next thing people will expect the sheets changed every year


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    Lollipops23
    Registered Users Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    I find it hard to sleep in a bed that I get back into unmade. Feels slovenly.


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    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,213 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Who's we?

    I never make the bed :pac:

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    MRledzepo
    Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭MRledzepo


    There's an interesting theory that if you make your bed then you are set up to be more successful than someone who hasn't . Think of making your bed as the very first task of the day and once you complete that task your onto your next task and so on . Making your bed gives you the Pride to pursue the next task of the day and annother and annother .


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    CelticRambler
    Registered Users Posts: 6,756 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    Speedwell wrote: »
    If company was coming over, and I expected them to stay overnight, I would make the guest bed up fresh for them. In the meantime it has just a throw over it for dust.

    I give my guests a sheet and a duvet and tell them to do it themselves - that way they know no-one else has slept in it before them! :D


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    Turquoise Hexagon Sun
    Registered Users Posts: 532 ✭✭✭Turquoise Hexagon Sun


    Makes the room so much neater. It's the easiest thing you can do improve the look of the room, especially if you are in a rush. A messed up looking bed is a bit of an eye sore.


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    Guffy
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    AnonoBoy
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    You'll never win her over if you don't puff that pillow cover

    "Remember to straighten that blanket if you want her to **** it."


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    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    My mammy tells me to, and it hides the stains.


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    maudgonner
    Registered Users Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    "Remember to straighten that blanket if you want her to **** it."

    Hospital corners give a girl the horn...ers.


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    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Its best not to make the bed when you get up as it should be aired first, tidy it but then turn down the covers and when you get home from work or whatever then make it up.


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    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    gufc21 wrote: »
    When in the military I used to bull my boots to a mirror shine everyday...

    I'm out nearly two & a half decades now & haven't polished a pair of boots since :eek: ;)


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    CelticRambler
    Registered Users Posts: 6,756 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    MRledzepo wrote: »
    Think of making your bed as the very first task of the day and once you complete that task your onto your next task and so on . Making your bed gives you the Pride to pursue the next task of the day and annother and annother .

    What's wrong with making "get out of bed" the first task of the day? Followed by staggering to the kitchen and put the kettle on, while rubbing sleep from your eyes. I know if I can get that far, I can take on the world. :pac:

    Then
    - check to see if anyone sent any interesting e-mails overnight
    - check New Posts on boards.ie & other forums
    - check phone to see if any idiot thought I'd answer before I woke up
    Along with the kettle challenge, that's four tasks done before getting dressed! :cool:

    And then: check to-do list for yesterday ("make bed" probably wasn't on it :P )


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