Necessary evil or unnecessary evil?
Yea: It's the civilized thing to do
Nay: It's just pointless work
Making the bed every day: Yea or Nay?
Necessary evil or unnecessary evil?
Look, I'm not in boot camp. I'm done making the bed every day. Deal.
Yea. It takes 30 seconds and is the biggest thing you can do to not make your room look like a sloth heap.
I'm a pretty negligent housekeeper in general but I always make the bed and pick up my bedroom before I leave.
everything in nature is sort of gross when you look at it too closely. what is an apple? basically the uterus of a tree - terrifel
It's so nice to have a made bed to slide into at the end of the day but let's face it, I'm pretty lazy.
I don't think so, therefore I'm probably not.
What Myrna said. I haven't always been a bed making type of person, but I've reformed, and it really does make it look like it's a grown-up's room.
Last edited by Sarahfeena; 08 Sep 2010 at 11:33 AM.
I spend too much time in my bedroom to have the biggest piece of furniture look like a pile of dirty laundry. Also it takes almost no time to do.
Yeah, for some perverse reason a made bed looks much more inviting to sleep in than an unmade bed.Originally posted by Inner Stickler
everything in nature is sort of gross when you look at it too closely. what is an apple? basically the uterus of a tree - terrifel
It's easy and makes the room look nicer. So yay!
I do it if I'm gonna have company in the apartment, or if I'm cleaning the bedroom in general it seems like an appropriate finishing touch. Otherwise, meh. Oh, and when I change the sheets, because after putting on freshly washed sheets is about the only time I understand the concept of the made bed being more attractive to get into.
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I will generally toss the blankets back to cover the sheets, just to keep the critters off, but the only time it gets MADE made is when I change the sheets.
I make it every day. Otherwise it just doesn't look like a bed, but more like a bull had a fight with a blanket.
So now they are just dirt-covered English people in fur pelts with credit cards.
I'm with Taumpy. If people are going to be here, or if I'm actually picking up our room (note: this is the last room in the house to get picked up, largely because it's the landing place for everything else that doesn't really have a proper place but wouldn't look good lying around in the living areas), make the bed. Also, if I'm trying to sort laundry on the bed. Otherwise, it's not a priority.
My mom used to harp on me about making my bed all the way until I left the house for college. She theorized that one day, when I had my own place, I would change my mind about making my bed. She was wrong. She was right that I wouldn't eat ice cream for dinner everyday, or leave dirty dishes in the sink for a week when I got my own place, though. But the bed thing? Totally wrong.
Aside from the lazy thing, which I am, I also sweat. If I make the bed it doesn't get to air out all day. Also, I hate tucked-in sheets, so I never really "make" the bed like Mom used to insist on. I just straighten the sheets/blankets out to cover the bed. I make it when I change the sheets (weekly, at least in theory), or when I clean the room (every couple weeks or so), or if people I don't know might be in there (rare). Otherwise it gets more-or-less straightened out when I go to bed. I do have a screen door to keep out the critters; I used to have to throw the bedspread over for protection during the day.
The bed gets made. It just looks neater.
I get up in the dark and go to bed in the dark, so I really don't care what the bed looks like. I will pull the sheets up and perfunctorily toss 'em over the bed in the morning so the stupid cat can't sleep on my pillow, but I have better things to do with my time than spend it making the bed.
Hell is other people.
Maybe it's because I've known you for so long, but I laugh whenever I think of you as "grown up."
Our bed gets made once a week, whether it needs it or not.
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-Jim Rockford
The bed gets made these days. Scary, but true.
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