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Post by imawino on Aug 16, 2013 10:23:41 GMT -5
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. Okay, that's just crazy. Tasks like laundry, making the bed, doing the dishes - those are all things I don't mind doing. Those are finite tasks - start with an unmade bed or a basket or dirty clothes and end up with a made bed or a basket of clean clothes. Definite end point and sense of accomplishment. I detest things like dusting or general tidying, because you could just keep doing it forever and never be finished! I could start dusting one part of my house and by the time I was done (hahahaha....like I ever actually do the whole thing at once) I could go back to the start point and it's dusty again! It's depressing. But I like a tidy house, so I keep at it.
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Post by Cookies Galore on Aug 16, 2013 10:30:26 GMT -5
We have a coin-operated laundry room. Once it doesn't cost us $3.00 - $4.50 to wash and dry a load, then I will wash my sheets more than once a month. We are using my future MIL's shore condo this weekend and I plan on doing this week's laundry for free. Such a luxury anymore!
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Post by shanendoah on Aug 16, 2013 10:38:51 GMT -5
No, we don't make the bed. C is still sleeping when I get up in the morning, and his computer is at the foot of the bed, so he spends a lot of time lying the "wrong" direction on the bed while he's on the computer.
I don't mind doing laundry. I hate putting clothes away. (Least favorite chore.) I do NOT iron. Luckily, I have a clothes steamer that works fairly well.
We sleep on flannel or jersey sheets all year round, otherwise, I would be wanting to change the sheets just about every day due to the dogs (who both sleep on the bed). Otherwise, they get changed when the dogs make them dirty. That translates to weekly in the winter (when it is wet wet wet here) and about every 2-3 weeks in the summer depending on which dog parks we've been to.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Aug 16, 2013 10:40:54 GMT -5
Yes, I make the bed. It just makes the whole room feel cleaner and relaxes me. I also pickup all the kids toys every night (well make DS pick up his own). We have about 2 hrs between the time the kids go to bed and I go to bed and I enjoy not feeling like I'm in the middle of a toy store. It makes me itchy to have everything laying around - plus stepping on it hurts. I played it up big time last weekend when I was helping DS pick up his room and I stepped on a toy that hurt and I just went on and on about how bad it hurt to help convince DS that he needed to pick up his toys.
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Post by grumpyhermit on Aug 16, 2013 10:43:20 GMT -5
Sheets get changed weekly. I love fresh sheets (preferably bleached and line dried which is no longer an option for me) and would change them more often if it were practical.
Bed gets "made" every day; but it is really just pull up the sheets, straighten the duvet and toss the pillows at the head of the bed. Part of it is I prefer to get into a neat bed at night, and part of it is I also prefer not to sleep in a pile of cat hair and other various things my cats would track into the sheets if I left the bed unmade.
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Post by Gardening Grandma on Aug 16, 2013 10:44:32 GMT -5
Yes, I make the bed. It just makes the whole room feel cleaner and relaxes me. I also pickup all the kids toys every night (well make DS pick up his own). We have about 2 hrs between the time the kids go to bed and I go to bed and I enjoy not feeling like I'm in the middle of a toy store. It makes me itchy to have everything laying around - plus stepping on it hurts. I played it up big time last weekend when I was helping DS pick up his room and I stepped on a toy that hurt and I just went on and on about how bad it hurt to help convince DS that he needed to pick up his toys. Wish I could convince the furkids to pick up their toys... If I don't put them all away before I go to bed, I risk stepping on a bone during the night. That hurts! Sometimes, even when I do get them all put away, they will drag something back out to chew on...
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Post by Sharon on Aug 16, 2013 10:45:09 GMT -5
The bed is made every day and the sheets are changed every Saturday. I also iron the pillow cases. Now things like dusting and vacuuming, who cares. Laundry is no big deal and is usually done over the weekend.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2013 10:51:20 GMT -5
My Ex insisted on sending the sheets out to the dry cleaner (for laundering and pressing, not dry cleaning) every week. He liked nice, crispy sheets. I was really glad to get rid of that expense after we broke up. DH is great with our laundry but doesn't iron. Mom always made my sister and me iron our own stuff (not our brothers - she ironed their stuff .) Having had years of practice, I can zoom over a blouse or a pair of pants pretty quickly and typically do it the night before, or just before I put them on in the AM. That skill really comes in handy when traveling on business.
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Post by sheilaincali on Aug 16, 2013 11:05:14 GMT -5
We don't the bed in the morning typically but DH is obsessed with it at night. So nearly every night he will pull the covers off the bed and remake it so that the flat sheet is properly tucked in at the bottom. He can't sleep if it isn't. We only have the fitted sheet, the flat sheet and our down comforter (in a duvet cover) on our bed. No extra quilts and blankets. So if I did decide to make it in the morning it takes like a 30 seconds but I just never remember. I get up and stumble to the bathroom and don't go back into my bedroom again until it's time for bed at night.
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Post by milee on Aug 16, 2013 11:24:00 GMT -5
This thread makes me realize just how many weird quirks I have. I do make the bed but not for the usual reasons. I'm a freak and getting into wrinkled sheets used to bug me, so I'd always make the bed right before getting into it at night. Over time, I realized how dumb that was - if I was going to go through the work of making the bed, why not do it at the beginning of the day so I could at least get the benefit of seeing the made bed? But I'm too lazy to spend much time on it, so I make sure that in winter, I have a big comforter that is quick to lay flat and in summer, I found a great summer weight "blanket" that also quickly lays flat. So "making the bed" is really just pulling everything up to the pillows and takes maybe 10-20 seconds. And we do wash the sheets every week, but that's mainly because we live in Florida where it's hot. I think if we lived in a colder place, once or twice a month would be fine. We don't have animals and the boys always shower at night before going to bed, so if it wasn't hot, the sheets wouldn't get very dirty.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2013 11:33:28 GMT -5
I don't even own an ironing board. Sometimes I feel like I should have been born a man. We have an ironing board but I don't use it. DH and I discussed it before we got married - I don't iron and he doesn't clean the bathroom. So far, so good!
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Aug 16, 2013 11:35:22 GMT -5
We don't the bed in the morning typically but DH is obsessed with it at night. So nearly every night he will pull the covers off the bed and remake it so that the flat sheet is properly tucked in at the bottom. He can't sleep if it isn't. Holy goodness! My husband isn't the only one! Honestly, I feel so much better now! although, mine only wants the bottom tucked in, not the sides
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Aug 16, 2013 11:36:44 GMT -5
This thread makes me realize just how many weird quirks I have. I do make the bed but not for the usual reasons. I'm a freak and getting into wrinkled sheets used to bug me, so I'd always make the bed right before getting into it at night. Over time, I realized how dumb that was - if I was going to go through the work of making the bed, why not do it at the beginning of the day so I could at least get the benefit of seeing the made bed? This is how it works for us, too!
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Aug 16, 2013 11:37:16 GMT -5
All the time.
it was a habit I got into when I lived in a studio apartment in Boston. My bed was my sofa and if I brought someone in, I didn't want them sitting on m sheets.
My sheets get washed weekly, if not more. I tend to wash them more frequently during the summer, especially when I was having hot flashes.
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Post by kent on Aug 16, 2013 11:40:11 GMT -5
My wife feels it's a mandatory thing so she does it every day. For me - not so much.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Aug 16, 2013 11:43:08 GMT -5
I don't even own an ironing board. Sometimes I feel like I should have been born a man. My mom was ironing while my sister and her family was visiting and my sister's youngest goes "what is that Grandma?"
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Aug 16, 2013 12:46:28 GMT -5
I remember my grandmother ironing sheets and pillow cases (that had crocheted borders). It never felt so good to crawl into a freshly made bed, where our pillow case crackled from starch.
The sheets were hung in the yard to dry, then sprinkled with starch and rolled up. She had an industrial iron where the sheets got run through huge (well, to my 8 year old eyes) hot rollers to iron.
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Post by shanendoah on Aug 16, 2013 12:49:14 GMT -5
I own an ironing board and an iron, but only because my mother bought them. She is also the only person ever to have used them.
One of the many reasons I don't make the bed (though really, I'm lazy is the only one that matters in the end) is that C, in fact, is just the opposite of other posters' husbands. He absolutely can NOT sleep if any part of the sheet is tucked in. He has total claustrophobia issues regarding his feet, and if he can't kick them clear of blanket in the middle of the night, he wakes up in a panic attack. When we go to a hotel or someone else's house, the very first thing he does is untuck all the sheets.
I do straighten the bed every morning if we are staying at someone else's house.
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Post by shanendoah on Aug 16, 2013 12:52:06 GMT -5
I remember one of my favorite things as a kid was getting into a bed with sheets fresh from the dryer (or the line). That doesn't happen now because I usually put a new sheets on as soon as I pull the old ones off, so they go from the dryer to the clean clothes basket for a week or two before going in the linen closet until that sheet set is back up in rotation. Nothing straight from the dryer anymore.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Aug 16, 2013 12:52:55 GMT -5
Nope, what is the point it'll just be messed up again in less than 12 hours. DH insists on it being made though, he does it when he gets home. I don't clean the top of my fridge. I'm 5'0'' I can't see up there so as far as I am concerned it doesn't exist.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2013 12:55:48 GMT -5
I make my bed every day, with military precision. Then I place my two favorite stuffed animals on it in the same position every day. The little dogs left ear is placed over the back of the little alligator.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Aug 16, 2013 12:59:41 GMT -5
Yes, I make the bed. But some days I wonder why I bother.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2013 13:02:59 GMT -5
LOL at the kitten. I'm surprised there are so many "non-bedmakers" on this board. I guess I thought a money board would have more anal retentive control freaks. You know. People like me.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Aug 16, 2013 13:09:52 GMT -5
No, that's what womenfolk are for.
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Post by Mardi Gras Audrey on Aug 16, 2013 13:12:09 GMT -5
LOL at the kitten. We don't usually make the bed. Like the other posters, we use computers in bed and sleep in all kinds of directions (Usually our heads are at the foot of the bed). It isn't worth it. Plus, we have 2 cats. One loves to climb under the covers and the other one sees "something moving" and jumps on it. Making the bed would have me miss out on watching that...
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Post by wvugurl26 on Aug 16, 2013 13:13:35 GMT -5
I don't make the bed in the morning. I read somewhere that it was good to let the sheets air out in the morning and not make the bed right away.
If I'm hanging out in bedroom watching tv, I'll yank the comforter up before I sit down.
Sheets are changed weekly unless its one of those weeks where I was only home for 2-3 nights then I'll stretch it two weeks. For me changing them weekly is one of those allergy things. My stepmom always did it that way when I was growing up. We had plenty of allergies and asthma among us three kids.
When I go home to my grandma's, I make the bed when I leave.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Aug 16, 2013 13:13:54 GMT -5
LOL at the kitten. I'm surprised there are so many "non-bedmakers" on this board. I guess I thought a money board would have more anal retentive control freaks. You know. People like me. I'm just glad I'm not the only one here that is an anal retentive control freak. LOL! My friend stopped by last night and we were drinking wine on the patio. You can see our master bedroom from out there and she was saying how beautiful and neat it was. She is also really anal except for the master bedroom. It looks like a bomb went off in hers with the sheets and bedding all piled on the bed with crap everywhere. I don't get that at all but she cracks me up. Everything else is perfect in her house and her daughter calls her OCD. Mess stresses me out and drains my energy and I sure don't want it in my bedroom where I sleep.
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Post by kittensaver on Aug 16, 2013 13:24:43 GMT -5
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. We make the bed too, but also only because we don't like getting into an unmade bed at night. Sheet and comforter only here too! "Making" the bed consists of shaking out and smoothing over the sheet and comforter. Shake out and add pillows. Done. ETA: we wash sheets every two weeks. Or rather, the housekeeper changes the bed and washes the sheets when she's there every other week. As others have said, shaking out/airing out/smoothing out sheets goes a long way to keeping them fresh, especially if you bathe/shower every day, and wear clean pj's.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2013 13:32:15 GMT -5
I make our bed most mornings. If DH is still in bed when I get up then he does it. We have a quilt / quilt cover so it just takes a minute to pull the bottom sheet taut / plump the pillows / pull up the quilt. The VERY rare times we don't make it, I end up making it at night instead lol. I can't stand it when things are messy. I wash our sheets once a week, and the kids' sheets every other week. When they get older and tell me they want clean sheets every week too, I tell them that means they are big enough to do their own sheets.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2013 13:33:29 GMT -5
Mess stresses me out and drains my energy and I sure don't want it in my bedroom where I sleep. I'm the same way. I shut my door and keep my room/bath off limits to the kids and cat. No cat hair on the chairs, no Legos on the floor. If I start feeling overwhelmed by the rest of the house, (which has unfortunately been the case the past month when I just have had no time), I'll retreat to my room, put on some music and bask in it's neatness.
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