Necessary evil or unnecessary evil?
Printable View
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.
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.
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.
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.Quote:
Originally posted by Inner Stickler
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.
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.
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.
Maybe it's because I've known you for so long, but I laugh whenever I think of you as "grown up."Quote:
Originally posted by Sarahfeena
Our bed gets made once a week, whether it needs it or not.
The bed gets made these days. Scary, but true.