Do you make your beds every day?

[*Infinity*]

MD, according to your stepmum I must be very morally deficient cos I couldn't care less about making beds everyday.

[Laranna]

I am miss hospital corners

Me too! I have to do hospital corners when I make the bed. DH thinks I'm nuts.

I make the bed every day once I'm up. I also open the window and blinds to air the room. When I change the sheets I leave them off all day as we get full sunshine through our bedroom window spilling onto the bed so I let it shine on the mattress for a few hours.

I love fresh sheets too!

[AngelPunks]

I get out of bed, kick the top sheet over the bed-end, go to the toilet, put the kettle on, come back into the bedroom, straighten the bottom (fitted) sheet, pull the top sheet up, pull the doona up, plump the pillows and put them on top of the doona. Then I lay my work clothes out on the doona.

Every Sunday I change the bed, pulling the sheets off when I get out of bed in the morning, doona goes over clothes-horse to air, once a month I turn the mattress - I wash the mattress protector the same day I turn the mattress. I also iron my sheets & pillowcases before I put them back on the bed at the end of the day.

[~Kim~]

I'm a 'make it as soon as the last body is out of it' girl too.
My 3yo makes her own bed.
Sheet day is Mondays and they get aired until the sheets dry (even though I use different sheets )

[didispunk]

I make it everyday with the European pillows and all! I love it!

[suse]

MD, according to your stepmum I must be very morally deficient cos I couldn't care less about making beds everyday.

Meh, I've always known I'm morally deficient - ain't nothing new there

[*Infinity*]

Meh, I've always known I'm morally deficient - ain't nothing new there

YAY for us Suse!!! Glad I'm not alone

[fionas]

I am very slack when it comes to housework but I HAVE to make the bed. By this I mean shaking the doona so it's roughly where it should be. And DD insists on this being done before she will bounce on the bed.

Basically, I can live with all sorts of domestic slackness as long as the bed is made.

[Rouge]

I love a made bed... but I have to say there is something somewhat alluring and fun about an unmade bed. I don't know what it is maybe it's a rebellious feeling because I was an avid bedmaker all my life. But on a weekend I love my bed not made and walking in and just lying amongst the rustled sheets. BUT I love a freshly made bed with good crisp linen too. So just call me a freak.

[Cassius2]

i make the bed everyday...but sometimes not until i am about to sleep it in LOL! i have this *thing* where i like to go into a made bed...

also since we moved house we are now in a terrace that sits right on the street and have massive windows, so if someone were to try hard to look in they could see in...so extra incentive.

funnily enough though, i make DDs bed the moment she wakes up for the day. and after her nap in the arvo...now that i think about it i am soo displaying double standards on myself LOL!

on change-of-sheet days we air it all out. both the cot mattress and ours gets flipped and turned. not sure if it is useful but is something my mum (hospital corners kinda gal that she is!) drilled into me and it stuck.

[Junglemum]

What??? I'm supposed to make my bed? Oh man. Perhaps i should start.

I used to work on a super-yacht and had to make the beds the moment they were wrinkled. I even ironed the sheets and doona covers on the bed to get rid of any stray wrinkles. I think it scarred me.

[Janie]

Yeah, I can live with all sorts of domestic slackness too (although I don't like it), but the beds have to be made. Well, I make exceptions sometimes. Like the day I work, DS is sometimes still asleep in our bed when it's time to leave, and I'd rather give him cuddles than be making the bed before I rush out the door. But no one else is home all day, and I make it when I get home. I can't go to sleep in an unmade bed. Well, I probably could, but I don't want to try it . Our house generally has enough crap lying around, I find that making the beds helps it to feel that much neater .

DH on the other hand couldn't give two hoots, and is so messy in bed, it drives me nuts
If he is in bed alone, he always manages to somehow turn the doona upside down, and back to front. I have to have it the right way up, so I'll move it around until I'm happy, even if it wakes him I'm such a pedantic b!tch.

[Queen]

I try I do not suceed most days

[Laranna]

Janie, my DH does the same. I often get up in the middle of the night and totally remake the bed because the sheets and doona are not sitting right!

[tk1999]

Um no... unless I know MIL is coming over... if she springs a visit on us then I ask them to hold DD whilst I 'go to the toilet' and quickly go and either make the bed or close the door

It drives DP insane because his mum is a hospital corners, made the minute you are out of it kinda gal... me - not so much

I do however, love fresh sheets on the bed and getting into a nicely made bed... the only way I would make the bed each and every day would be to change the sheets each and every day and that ain't going to happen

[~Hestia~]

Funny you should say that TK as I know someone who changes all the bed linen each & everyday!! This is three beds mind you. And she think's I'm weird because I don't.

[tk1999]

Cheezel... each and every day. She has my utmost admiration

[AngelPunks]

In summer, when there are two of us in there - I change the bed twice a week - if there are the white sheets on and the cat has decided the bed is where she wants to sleep (like she doesn't have enough beds in this place to sleep - as well as a multitude of chairs!) then every couple of days (she's black)