Do you make your bed in the morning?

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I used to rail against it when I was a kid ("But I'm just gonna mess it up again!") but now it's pretty automatic. It feels sleazy to come home to an unmade bed - and not in a good way.

But I can't bounce a quarter off it.

― andy, Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck no.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I make the bed right after I wash the sheets every week or two. Never any other time. I have places to be, you know.

― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Same as Harold, but replace 'week' with 'month'.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Sure do, force of habit perhaps. Not that there's much to it, I just want to get the comforter on straight most of the time.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

And 'places to be' with 'telly to watch'.

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― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I have been fully domesticated. I make it every morning. So the cats are more comfortable.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I make an half-hearted effort to straighten it out.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

hell last night I didn't even put sheets on the bed.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

all I have on my bed is one sheet, so it pretty much makes itself, when I get out of it. Ocassionally I'll pull a corner over a bit.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, i'm only talking duvet.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"all I have on my bed is one sheet..."

That sounds very institutional...

― andy, Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

My wife makes it. I leave earlier than her. I like to tuck her in when I leave.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I end up making it right before I crawl in to sleep.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Hell naw.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Why would you make your bed? It just gets unmade in a few hours.

I've done it maybe twice in the last year, when we've had guests. I mean, I wash the sheets and stuff, but the blankets and everything just get tossed on there.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope. I do maybe once a month and then decide "Hm, this looks nice - I should do this every day!" and then I try to do that for about 2 days and then I stop again. Sometimes I don't even put sheets on the bed. I am a messy sleeper - I wake up and the sheets are all fucked up and the duvet is on the floor and something's always weird. I need therapy.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

there is nothing worse than getting into a mess of covers. I like them tight like a virgins ass.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

My bed-making is totally random. Depends on how I feel in the morning. This is surprising given my Virgo-ness about everything else in my room. Over time, it probably gets made less than half the time - maybe even a quarter. It seems to get made for the first couple of days after fresh sheets, or if I've given my room a proper clean up (dusting, vacuuming, etc). After that it's back to... randomness

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

never make my bed... i also use half the bed for clean clothes cuz my cupboard and dresser drawers are filled with stuff already.

and if you build on the theme of "why make a bed when it's only going to be unmade anyway" you could say "why put clothes into drawers that are just coming back out anyway"

Of course I am single, and at the first sign of a guy who might be interested i clean the entire room to give favourable first impression.

― Anthony (Plato Guy), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Thats a good point...do you make your bed if you plan on bringing someone home to romp in it?

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

and if you build on the theme of "why make a bed when it's only going to be unmade anyway" you could say "why put clothes into drawers that are just coming back out anyway"

yes I do this too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Thats a good point...do you make your bed if you plan on bringing someone home to romp in it?

-- Velveteen Bingo (formerlypoopsmcge...), August 19th, 2004.

Romping only happens when you least expect it, in my experience. A good litmus test to see if a girl/guy/whaterever likes you is whether she/he/it will put up with an unmade bed strewn with dirty clothes, half-read books and, er, suspicious tissues.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

and cum stains on yer sheetz

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"sorry, I really wanted to fuck you, but your tuck job is simply atrocious."

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd have made it, but I wasn't exactly in my bed this morning, if you follow, heh heh heh heh!

oh who am I kidding.

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I try, but it always looks so bad. It's better now that I've removed the pointless duvet cover from the comforter. Half the time I just throw his full size sheet over the bed to hide all the lumps. Maybe a few times a week I will try to make it properly.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 20 August 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Same as Harold and Wooden, but replace "month" with "season."

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 20 August 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i've done it mebbe twice this summer

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Friday, 20 August 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Homosexual II really said it all for me. Thanks ever so!

But, oddly enough, I try to keep the closet and my chest of drawers as neat and tidy as I can make it, and hang up each and every single article of clothing as soon as I take it off. (Unless I consider it dirty, in which case it lands in the dirty clothes hamper.) Plus, I'm starting to become like my mother and have issues with any little thing that resides on my bedroom floor, so various containers I have on my floor for lack of space are almost literally driving me insane.

Heh. Imagine -- clean floor, clean closet, bed all asunder.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 20 August 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I never used to make my bed until after I got married. Then for some reason I have gotten into the habbit.

Creeping domesticity.

― hector (hector), Friday, 20 August 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was single, I made my bed. Now that I'm not, and she sleeps mostly different hours than I do, there's never a clear-cut opportunity. When we have company we close the door and say something like, oh the room's just been painted.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 20 August 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i always make my bed. even if the rest of my room is a tip, i can't get into an unmade bed. i'm also anal about doing the dishes before going to bed - doesn't matter how pissed or tired i am. i can't face getting up to dirty dishes.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 20 August 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

We chuck the doona back on the bed. Does that count?

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 20 August 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Every now and then when I get into one of my cleanliness kicks I'll make my bed every day. There's something fucking satisfying coming home to a made bed.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 20 August 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

(ps: I only use pillows and a doona so there's no sheet folding etc involved)

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 20 August 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

amazingly, i do! even though the rest of my apartment is a complete disgusting pig sty! but i do it so my cat doesn't sleep on my sheets and shed all over them

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 20 August 2004 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)

It took me years to appreciate the simple virtues of a made bed. I resisted it forever. But it's so easy (for some reason, I always thought it was hard), takes all of a minute and a half, and then it creates this kind of welcoming oasis of quiet order in the midst of what is usually a pretty disordered living space. A made bed can redeem the whole rest of the room. Plus, my wife leaves for work before me, and comes home while I'm still at work, so it's kind of like leaving her a present, a nicely made bed.

― spittle (spittle), Friday, 20 August 2004 06:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a duvet and fitted bottom sheets = don't need to make it, just straighten, which takes all of 2 seconds.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Friday, 20 August 2004 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

No! I do not! I leave the eiderdown where it flopped! This is one of the great joys of not living with Joe any more! I never, ever have to make the bed, ever again!

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 20 August 2004 07:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Why would you make your bed? It just gets unmade in a few hours.

Jordan what you're in bed for like 21 hours a day ?!

I have started making my bed in a straighten-cover-a-bit-to-try-and-get-it-looking-a-bit-flat kind of way.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 20 August 2004 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck no, things need done.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 20 August 2004 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't understand multiple sheets and all that jazz. I shake the duvet straight and leave the room.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 20 August 2004 09:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I almost always 'make' the bed when I get up, unless someone's still in it. Just straightening the pillows, duvet and maybe a throw on top. We are about to start experimenting with actual multiple sheets and blankets instead of one sheet plus duvet, though. Matt likes an old-fashioned bed. I will probably NOT make this kind of bed as often. Doubt my hospital corners would pass muster so no point trying.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 20 August 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Mmm, clean sheets last night. I wish I lived in a hotel and had clean sheets every day. So cold and crisp, and smelling of a spring meadow.

― andy --, Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:22 (twenty years ago)

I try.

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:27 (twenty years ago)

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