no...

No.
I'd sometimes try to straighten the blanket a bit, if I have guests coming over. But I don't really see the point.

Fauxie said:

I didn't know there was one.

IAmNotSpats said:

well not with the kind of guest you keep having no point at all!

ZombieKitten said:

Exactly!

I don't have a bed. I sleep in the refrigerator.

IstenSzek said:

I don't know why, I hear you saying that in a David Attenborough-type voice.


Yeah, ALL messy people say that.


I'm kidding! Sorry.

Nah, I'm a cross between you, Ellie and Anx on this. I like to leave the covers off for a while for the same reason you mentioned. But, like Ellie, it depends on how much of a flap I am in leaving the house. Yesterday, for example, I left the bed for a while then made it just before I left. Today, having slept in, I leapt out of bed, ran around the house and left my bed as it was. Well, it's getting an airing, I suppose.

But, like Anx, I had this conversation in work once - for the exact same reason he stated, I just like to make my bed before leaving. It just looks tidier, for a start.



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Generally no, much to the chagrin of my wife.
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onenitealone said:

"and did you know that the average bed bug has a life span of 7 months
with a reproductive cycle of 2 weeks? now add those numbers and tell me
if you're not shocked"

IstenSzek said:

Yes, I have since I was really young (Elementary)... just a strong preference, nobody ever made me.

Actually, lately... I just sleep on top of the covers with a throw blanket, so I really just have to straighten things out.

IstenSzek said:

of course, this is all filmed in night vision with DA huddled under the covers and pointing blindly at a pillow.

heartbeatocean said:

No! I must confess!

Oh, it depends. If my place happens to be super neat and tidy and I'm feeling fastidious, yeah, I'll make it before I leave. And any time I'm cleaning I'll make the bed as part of that whole dealio. If I'm having a bedmate that night I'll make it. I do like the feeling of crawling into a bed that has been properly made.

But often I'll just sort of toss the covers up over the sheets to keep the masses of dog hair that surround my life from getting all over them. That's not really making the bed in my mind.

Anx said:

lol, i know

i hate to think what they'd see if they filmed me in bed at night with
night goggles and one of those blue lights.

i mean, since my dog sleeps in my bed half the time as well i must be
covered in a trillion bugs by 3 am

Anx said:

Hmmmm... Lars, in bed, night vision goggles... I can't work out whether I'm turned on by this or going into Silence Of The Lambs territory.

Hell no. If I'm cleaning my room or having guests over or putting clean sheets on the bed -- those are the times I actually make it up.

applekisses said:

Same here.

I'm lucky I remember my name in the morning. I am SO NOT a morning person.

I never make my bed.....



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rarely.

IstenSzek said:

especially if you have cheap bedding

No. This is one mania I managed to escape People who are freaks about this scare me

I LIKE a rumpled bed, much cosier...

I usually make my bed.

My bedding is light and linen so it breathes.

Im a neat freak and like things to look picture perfect.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

i've been known to miss my bus to work in the morning because i almost walked out the door and realized my bed was still unmade.

i just think coming home to an unmade bed is the most depressing thing ever.

1sexymf said:

Me too. One morning I was so out of it on my way to work that when I got there I was distracted by a coworker in the parking lot and I closed my car door with the keys inside and the car running!

Anx said:

I can't get with this AT ALL I care that I even have a bed to lay in I used to have this roommate that burst into tears because I asked that she do her obsessive housework after I left for work. She would wake up at 5:00 am sharp every morning to do her duties so she'd have the rest of the day free and here I still had 2 hours left to sleep before I went to work all day

Vacuum cleaners at 5:00 am is reason to brawl in my book and we almost did. She cried and I yelled at her even harder for having the goddamned nerve to foist her obsession on me while I need my sleep for the day I have to slave away at work! Hell no, if you need your bed made that bad that you need to steal 2 hours of sleep from me, you need to get your own place

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

i am the most silent bed-maker you'll ever meet.

actually, how do you make a bed noisily??

vacuum cleaners at 5am is BULLSHIT, though. i'm neurotic about that, though. i hate vacuum cleaners. unless i'm the one using it, i prefer to be gone from the house when someone else is using it. those things make me super nervous.

here by myself, no. the cover stays flipped over.
but if i need to sit on the bed or fold clothes there
it's just a matter of flipping the comforter back over.
it might not be perfectly straight but it's not too bad.

however if there are others staying here
or if i am staying at someone else's house
then yes, i tend to make the bed before i even get dressed!

or at a hotel room... i have to semi make the bed
if the bed doubles as your couch then it has to be straightend!
but as someone who cleaned rooms at a resort once
never ever fastidiously make the bed for your cleaning person
it takes much longer to pull it apart if you have to first
determine if anyone actually slept in the damn thing.

i do have to admit, i cheat a little. i tuck the covers and sheets under the end of the bed, so that when i get up, all i have to do is flick the covers/sheets and voila! the bed is made. plus i don't flail around when i sleep, so when i wake up the bed is usually still half-made from the previous day.