What does it say about you if you don’t make your bed every day? Personally I can’t leave my bed unmade. My mother had nothing to do with it because I grew up in a business with housekeeping staff and they used to make my bed for me. I thought nothing of it at the time, it just seemed normal. People that I know that don’t make their bed are by my measures usually messy and or lazy to a degree, some extremely. Many “never have enough time” to do what others do without thinking. So is it a symptom of something else or just the sign of a stress free lifestyle where things like making beds are not important?
Do You Make Your Bed?
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You put way too much mental weight into making your bed.
One could foreseeably die from asphyxiation, hypothermia and/or hyperthermia if a bed isn't made. Does that sound like a trivial issue to you!?
No, but I sometimes make it just before I get into bed if the sheets and blanket are too messed up to be able to easily pull them over me.
What if you were fatigued, drowsy and/or intoxicated before bedtime? Don't risk it!
i remember reading stories for the pros and cons, some saying not making beds aids in the prevention of dust mites
Yep, fresh air for the layers underneath.
Not making bed is actually better, approved by science.
https://www.today.com/home/scientists-keep-mites-away-leave-…*Insert "Yeh Science" meme
As some of us are aware (but try not to be), dust mites are everywhere, and feed on scales of human skin;
This is the work of reptilians!
JP is that you
You are over thinking it. It's just one aspect of someone, symptom doesn't necessary correlate to root cause.
Are you tying to figure someone out by this act alone?
Why bother to make it? You are only going to mess it up again
Why bother brushing your teeth? You are only going to mess them up again
Making the bed doesn’t clean it. There's a difference.
Looks cleaner to me
BTW I'm just trolling
This is called the Meth Mantra. Words to live by.
It would if you vacuumed it as well.
fold back covers straighten out leave bed to air throughout the day, change sheets regularly. Not hard, who knows if it's got anything to do with being organised in other area of life but maybe.
For some depression suffers it can be quite helpful to make the bed every morning as a trigger to start your day.
yeah this true, helped me get head in line for the day, like a positive start to the routine.
since covid, "who the hell cares anymore?" :-(
I prefer the trigger of an alarm to wake me up, straight in the shower, dressed then out the door. No sitting around eating to promote lethargy. Then have a snack in a few hours.
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- How often do you change bed sheets?
- How often do you rotate mattress?
- How often do you change underwear?The votes may surprise you! Tune into Ozbargain later.
You won't believe who they voted for next
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I change/rotate them all more than I make my bed!
Yes, just after I change the sheets. Or if the kids have been jumping on the bed and too much of the mattress protector is showing.
Otherwise, no. And I leave the blanket/quilt as is when I wake up to go to bed quicker.
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Nothing to do with time as I'm always early. Just how I feel at the time. Making it is just pulling sheet and cover anyway, nothing extravagant for me.
Get a Doona.
It's December.
Get a sheet
Pretty sure that's the status quo.
Some people in Asia hang their blankets outside on sunny days to "disinfect them". What does it say about those people that keep their blankets inside the house on a sunny day?
They don’t want to remake the bed every day?
Some people don't want to remake their bed everyday. What does it say about them?
In my case it means I have a Doona so I just flick it straight.
However going through the whole rigmarole of stripping off blankets, hanging them outside, bringing them back in and remaking the bed each time is OTT. Not to mention, especially in some Asian countries, the risk of a sudden rain shower would, quite literally, put a dampener on it.
Some people in Asia hang their blankets outside on sunny days to "disinfect them".
Many live in apartments and hang it over the balcony. Fewer people here live in apartments so bit harder/more effort.
They are white people?
No.
I don't sleep in a 'made up bed' — I find I often have covers half on half off. No value for me making bed to me if I'm only going to "mess it up" later on once I get in.
On other hand, having clean sheets/pillowcase etc is important for me.
The one guy I knew who used to preach about making your bed every morning also worked a 4-day week purely because he could, he's now a postie. Not really a great indicator of a person's drive.
Personally I sleep with a fitted sheet and doonah so making my bed is just a matter of straightening the doonah on the bed. Still I've only started doing it now that I'm working from home and spending all day in my room.
Sounds like you read that book by that US Navy Admiral.
yes I make my bed which is just light doona over the fitted sheet
Why do I make my bed ? Single so no one else there to do it for me :)Hahaha so you defend your attitude because your mum didn't make you (?) but you had housekeeping staff to do it for you?! That's worse!
If you say so
Yes, and also do hospital corners when putting on clean sheets. I change sheets around once a week.
I know scientific findings support not making the bed, but mentally I like that it represents as a day preparation and personally I prefer my bedroom looking neat.
Ultimately, it's all down to personal preference and habits.Times have changed and typically we may just a a single doona on top. At least tidy it up. I remember watching our staff clean the house and I enjoyed the conversations immensely with my Nanny. Very odd lady, always carried an umbrella.
Thanks guys some of your insights are what I was looking for while your wit is also welcome. Some of you are on the right track. My thinking is that for example, bed making or not, and good health may be related in some people. I live in an apartment and the people below me in the next building never make their bed - I don’t need to spy on them to see this as it’s unavoidable if I use my windows for anything other than to shed light into my apartment.. They also play music loud enough to be annoying to some people, smoke, have loud conversations on their phones at all hours outside - I assume this is because having a smoke and talking on the phone somehow go together. They are annoying but not so much as to yell at them and I’ve lived in much noisier places so it doesn’t stress me at all. I usually just put my headphones on so it doesn’t bother me but have an inquisitive mind I got to thinking about the whys and wherefores. Then I thought hell, why not have a discussion just for fun. And here we are.
Ok so you're pissed off at your neighbours and need a reason to feel superior to them. You're also probably early-20s because you're young and dumb enough not to realise the error in making assumptions like you are.
You say, making assumptions. No I’m not pissed off at them. I thought I covered that. The question was more philosophical. I WISH I was in my early 20’s. Also I learned at an early age from watching others that feeling superior was a fools errand. When you look at a continuous pattern of behaviour and you have not a lot else to occupy your mind during a very long period of recently ended lockdown you may think of things that normally wouldn’t even be on your radar. My question was about behaviour and it’s possible links to personality not judgement- not that it needs explanation, but perhaps clarity. I enjoyed your jab. Thank you.
Yes. Done in a few seconds. Makes the bedroom look neat and tidy. Don’t care if others do it, none of my business…
For the singles: does making your bed get you laid more? That is, has anyone had a potential intimate experience fizzle out because … the other party found out that they didn't make their bed?
the way we do one thing is the way we do everything
Poll?
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