Do you make your bed?

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What other 'daily grind' things do you find necessary or unnecessary? 

We don't generally make our beds.

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Haha that was quick yeah i make my bed. One thing i hate is putting clothes away after laundry. It usually takes me forever to do that.

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Aug 16, 2013 8:21:40 GMT -5 @bunnysmom said:

Haha that was quick yeah i make my bed. One thing i hate is putting clothes away after laundry. It usually takes me forever to do that.

 I usually end up wearing things before I put them away....

we pull our comforter up over our pillows.  Pup likes to sleep up on the bed and I don't want puppy butt on my pillows...

[MarleyKeezy78]

No, we don't make our beds, unless, like someone else said, we have company coming over. Unless I feel ambitious that day of course   
I agree with bunny, laundry sucks!

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Yeah i usually wear them before putting away too but then there are some clothes that i dont wear often so they keep going further and further down into the clean clothes pile.

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I insist on making the bed.  The whole room looks awful with an unmade bed.  Sometimes if I get home from work and it's unmade (DH sometimes gets night sweats so he may decide to let the bed air out and then forget to make it later), I'll make it.  One of my quirks, but it doesn't take very long.

My mother always insisted that we make our beds.  Later I discovered that Grandma (her mother) frequently didn't bother and asked why we had to.  Mom said that in Grandma's house the bedrooms were upstairs so it wasn't as noticeable; we had a ranch.  The truth was that Grandma was a good, intelligent woman but not a domestic goddess and she just couldn't be bothered.

[bean29]

My DH makes the bed every morning.  He gets mad at me if I do not do it.  I just don't think it is important.  The only time I let people in my bedroom is when I am having a party and we want to let people use the master bathroom.

If the bed is not made I will make it so I can use it to fold laundry.

[thyme4change]

In the winter we just use our duvet, so I usually pull that up, but in the summer (which is 5 months of our year) the bed rarely gets made.  The duvet is piled on the floor and the sheet and light blanket are balled up on the middle of the bed.  Once, maybe twice a week I get frustrated and pull everything flat - just so I can sleep well, but that is usually right before I go to bed.

My kids have never made a bed in their life.  They are going to be clueless when they enter the world.

[Jake 48]

Aug 16, 2013 8:21:40 GMT -5 @bunnysmom said:

Haha that was quick yeah i make my bed. One thing i hate is putting clothes away after laundry. It usually takes me forever to do that.

[genericname]

Aug 16, 2013 8:21:40 GMT -5 @bunnysmom said:

Haha that was quick yeah i make my bed. One thing i hate is putting clothes away after laundry. It usually takes me forever to do that.

I HATE doing laundry. Our household division of labor means my DH does all the laundry, and I do all the cooking and clean the kitchen. I'm sure I spend a lot more time cooking than he does on laundry, but at least I like to cook, and when I don't I just declare "Pizza Night!"

I made my bed all the time when I was single. Now that I'm married, I had to decide whether that was a hill to die on. I decided it wasn't. I get up way before DH, and he never makes the bed. It took me a couple of years to get to the "meh, it's just a bed" point, but I got there. If I sleep in longer than him on the weekends I will make it when I get up, but with a 2 year old you can bet that happens only twice a year: on mother's day and my birthday.

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Yes, I always make my bed.  All our beds are just a sheet and a comforter, so for me, it's just a matter of pulling the top sheet tight and flipping the comforter back down since I don't flop all over the bed making a mess.  My kids do, but it's still a quick chore. 

Not only can I not stand looking at an unmade bed, but I just hate getting in one at night.

[constanz22]

Aug 16, 2013 8:21:40 GMT -5 @bunnysmom said:

Haha that was quick yeah i make my bed. One thing i hate is putting clothes away after laundry. It usually takes me forever to do that.

Generally, the only time I make the bed is when I change the sheets/bedding for washing, usually every week. Otherwise, I hardly ever make it.
Ugh, putting away laundry...I feel like I live out of laundry baskets. For one, I have way too many clothes and not enough closet space (tiny 1960's ranch). I even added a free standing "closet" and still don't have enough hanging space. I do have too many clothes, but I also like most everything hung up. I don't really use dressers except for socks, undies and pj's.

[Spellbound454]

I just straighten the duvet when I get out of it........

The bedroom gets in a bit of a mess by the end of the week though....Clothes taken off clean things ready to go away
in fact the whole house has that Friday feeling.

A couple of hours on Saturday does the trick...I don't do the kids rooms, even the hoover daren't venture in there.
If they want to live in a pig hole....so be it.

[Cookies Galore]

We have two cats and pale gray sheets. We always throw a blanket/comforter up to the pillows.

[chiver78]

Aug 16, 2013 8:21:40 GMT -5 @bunnysmom said:

Haha that was quick yeah i make my bed. One thing i hate is putting clothes away after laundry. It usually takes me forever to do that.

except yesterday. I did my laundry Wed night b/c it was the only night I'd be home this week. I ran home yesterday at lunch to clean up the drying racks/piles of clean dry towels for a showing that ended up not happening yesterday afternoon.  

at least the laundry's put away though.

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I thought i was the oy one living out of the laundry basket so glad there are others like me out there!!
Another confession... With my move 1.5 months ago, i didnt bring a whole lot but i am still not fully unpacked. I just dont know where to put everything even though there is ample space.

[wodehouse]

As a young bachelor I didn't. Then I realized that it looked nicer and more civilized to do so, so I got into the habit. I still am now that I'm married. DW isn't so enthused as I am but she's gotten into it.

I also like having those dust ruffle things that cover the box spring and hide the underside of the bed and the metal frame. Again, this was something new to DW.

[imawino]

I almost always make the bed.  It's one of those tasks that only takes a minute and dramatically improves the appearance of the room, so why not?  That said, I am not making it with military precision every morning, just straightening things out.

Unfortunately some mornings my dog must decide there is a tennis ball or a mouse cleverly hidden beneath the covers because I get out of the shower to find that my formerly made bed looks like an F4 tornado came across it. 


Also, the sheets must be changed every weekend!  I love crisp, clean sheets and I do not like to feel as though I am getting into a dirty bed.  Ideally I'd live in a hotel and someone would put fresh sheets on for me every couple of days, but that's not going to happen so once a week it is. 

[imawino]

Aug 16, 2013 9:23:20 GMT -5 @wrongsideof30 said:

Aug 16, 2013 9:11:17 GMT -5 minnesotapaintlady said:

Yes, I always make my bed.  All our beds are just a sheet and a comforter, so for me, it's just a matter of pulling the top sheet tight and flipping the comforter back down since I don't flop all over the bed making a mess.  My kids do, but it's still a quick chore. 

Not only can I not stand looking at an unmade bed, but I just hate getting in one at night.

I wash our sheets once a month and the beds get made that day. It is nicer getting into a bed that has been made. Especially with freshly washed sheets.

Once a month??!!  And no one has died yet?? 

[Gardening Grandma]

Make it every morning. Keeps DH happy and makes the room look neater. It is easy to make up though.

Wash the sheets every Monday.

[chiver78]

Aug 16, 2013 9:31:29 GMT -5 wodehouse said:

I also like having those dust ruffle things that cover the box spring and hide the underside of the bed and the metal frame. Again, this was something new to DW.

ugh....my realtor asked me to put those on the twin beds in my spare bedroom for my listing, I didn't have any there before. I freakin hate those things! they get all caught up in the flat sheet when I'm making the beds, and it drives me nuts.

I don't have one for my master bedroom, but I have a nice wooden frame for that bed.

[Regis]

I never make the bed - mostly because my wife is still sleeping in it when I leave for work!  

[imawino]

Aug 16, 2013 9:53:15 GMT -5 @wrongsideof30 said:

Aug 16, 2013 9:50:13 GMT -5 imawino said:

Once a month??!!  And no one has died yet?? 

I guess we're gross.    We shower every day and wear clean pj's to bed, so I thought once a month was fine.

Does everyone else wash their sheets every week too?

I was joking.  I'm sure you are fine, but I have a dog that likes to get in my bed for a snuggle so I do have to change mine more regularly. 

[chiver78]

Aug 16, 2013 9:53:15 GMT -5 @wrongsideof30 said:

Aug 16, 2013 9:50:13 GMT -5 imawino said:

Once a month??!!  And no one has died yet?? 

I guess we're gross.    We shower every day and wear clean pj's to bed, so I thought once a month was fine.

Does everyone else wash their sheets every week too?

I wash mine about once a week, sometimes on a random weeknight because I was too tired to shower the night before after either hockey or sand-court volleyball.

but I fresh crisp sheets, so I'd probably be washing 'em that often anyway.

[mollyanna58]

Does everyone else wash their sheets every week too?

Nope.  Once a month sounds about right to me.

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

Well, we all know my answer. 

Wrongside, I change our sheets every Sunday.  The girls change theirs every Monday. 

[genericname]

My MIL once worked as a housekeeper for some uber rich folk. Part of her job was to change the sheets, wash them, and iron them with starch EVERY DAY.

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Aug 16, 2013 10:06:13 GMT -5 genericname said:

My MIL once worked as a housekeeper for some uber rich folk. Part of her job was to change the sheets, wash them, and iron them with starch EVERY DAY.

You expect Lord Grantham to sleep on unwashed sheets?

[genericname]

Aug 16, 2013 10:07:50 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

Aug 16, 2013 10:06:13 GMT -5 genericname said:

My MIL once worked as a housekeeper for some uber rich folk. Part of her job was to change the sheets, wash them, and iron them with starch EVERY DAY.

You expect Lord Grantham to sleep on unwashed sheets?

It just makes me wonder if manbearpig also has that requirement of his housekeeper. These people are heavily involved in the "green" movement like him, and fail to recognize the hypocrisy embodied in that requirement. It boggles my mind.

[Spellbound454]

You expect Lord Grantham to sleep on unwashed sheets?

People were dirtier in those days...they didn't have quick showers and deodrants.