… And at worst, actively making your bedroom less functional and more cumbersome to use. The arguments I hear in favor of it are completely asinine and I will address them one by one.
- It makes it more comfortable to sleep in.
I have absolutely no idea where that comes from. Do you all sleep like Dracula? My bedding is usually tussled about within minutes of me laying in bed. Blankets balled up for knee support, one leg sticking out for temperature venting. I couldn’t imagine sliding under the covers and laying perfectly supine like Vladimir Lenin.
- It doesn’t take much time, so you might as well do it.
I find any task not worth my time to be a waste, so unless it has a purpose, it is actively infuriating to do.
- It looks nice. And an unmade bed looks lazy
Given that this is an entirely subjective reason, I can’t exactly “disagree” with it. But if there was someone I trust enough to be in my bedroom, I’m not going to waste my time convincing you that I do not, in fact, sleep in my bed.
Not to mention that if you want to nap or even sit on the end of the bed, you have to make it again. It is an incredibly unstable artwork, making me avoid using my bed unless I really need to.
If you make your bed, I have no judgment for you. Just like people who fold designs into the ends of their toilet paper. I couldn’t imagine caring about something like that, but it literally doesn’t affect me at all, so go nuts.
But I think we should be honest and call it what it is: some kind of shameful cleaning ritual that is probably some vestigial military chore, and I want nothing to do with it.
Back in the days, mattresses were made of straw or other natural materials. Blankets and pillows were stuffed with feathers until recently. And people were not able to heat their bedrooms sufficiently during winter. Back in those days, you had to make your bed in order to air it and dry it from sweat. Otherwise it would start to get moldy really quickly.
Today, synthetic materials and central heating / air conditioning have eliminated the need for a strict humidity management in the bedroom. But it’s still stuck in people’s heads that making your bed is absolutely vital. I guess it’ll take another one or two generations for it to become irrelevant.
For me, it’s a huge headache saver. We have a 60 lb dog who likes to get into bed with us, along with one of our cats. If I don’t make my side of the bed prior to my wife and the dog getting in, I’m probably not going to have usable sheets and blankets for the night. Wherever the sheets are when he decides to hop in, that’s where they’re staying.
So, I definitely make at least my side of the bed every day, at some point. Not usually right away in the morning, but it definitely gets done. I don’t go all out on it, just get the sheet and blanket (and comforter, in winter) in essentially the right position for me. It’s critical for a good night of sleep.
And, yes, we probably shouldn’t have let him in the bed in the first place. Lesson learned. That’s a whole other story. But the damage is done.
Don’t make your bed then? I hope you’re being facetious, cuz all I’m getting from this is two things:
You are obsessively preoccupied with other people
You are irrationally critical of people’s behavior that has literally nothing to do with you.
Truthfully; no one gives a fuck about you or your bed. Go outside
Might just be a kid being Rebellious
I agree people are not allowed to talk about things other people say are important, and if they do they are obsessed or irrational.
It took you longer to write this post then it does for me to fix my bed in the morning.
It’s also a pain in the ass if you don’t have a lot of space around your bed. My parent’s “camp” has a queen bed in basically a cubby and the only way to completely change the sheets to to hunch down on what’s basically a side sill for the bed and contort yourself over it to stretch the sheets from corner to corner without having to kneel on the bed for support. I just stopped using a fitted sheet and throw a new top sheet on it once a week or so. works fine. plus its in a cubby so nobody sees the mess.
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It makes it more comfortable to sleep in.
I have absolutely no idea where that comes from. Do you all sleep like Dracula? My bedding is usually tussled about within minutes of me laying in bed. Blankets balled up for knee support, one leg sticking out for temperature venting. I couldn’t imagine sliding under the covers and laying perfectly supine like Vladimir Lenin.
Lol, it’s not about “laying perfectly supine”, it’s about what you are laying on. Yes, you will probably get a couple of small wrinkles by just getting in bed and getting comfortable, but if you never make your bed you will be laying on hundreds of very big wrinkles. To me the comfort level of laying in a made bed and a super messy one is night and day. If you can’t tell a difference, consider yourself lucky.
Pro tip: instead of balling up your blankets for knee support, keep an extra pillow on your bed specifically for that purpose. I have an old “king size” pillow I use that supports me from balls to ankles. It has helped my back tremendously.
One way to solve that would be get linen bed sheets. Expensive, yes, but linen is basically pre-wrinkled and gets softer with age. Instead of hundreds of very big wrinkles you’ll have thousands of basically permanent small wrinkles. If it really gets bad you can just throw em in the dryer on cool and let that de-wrinkle them but I find it easier to just lean into the wrinkled “cottage” look.
I make my bed because my cats will absolutely shed all their hairs on my side of the bed that one time I forgot to do it. Slightly allergic, so I learned fast lol.
When I get the care to do it, its nice having a neat room.
Some people function better when things are organized and orderly, some function better when things are disorganized and in disarray, some function the same either way.
It is what it is. An orderly, organized bedroom feels great to sleep in to me, and might not matter at all to someone else.
Whatever the case, anyone judging me because my bed is either made or not made can fuck right off.
Edit: upvoted for unpopularity, as one does.
- Is raises the chance of having sex, at least for my wife she definitely gets more in the mood when we go to bed and the bedroom looks clean and nice.
Yeah, but how often is your wife in OP’s bedroom?
About as often as I am in OPs bedroom…
You’d be surprised. Actually, on second thought, maybe you wouldn’t.
How about when you have crumbs all over the bed after snaccing and you need a less itchy place to lie down.
I prefer to air the bed during the day so I pull the covers down to the end and fold over once. Pillows are reset so they’re fresh and comfy to start the night. Maybe later in the day I’ll pull the covers up but doesn’t later since it’s all neat anyway.
None of that is performative, it’s about freshness and comfort.
My room is really small, and I don’t have space for a couch for example, so if I would want to lay down and I’m in outdoor clothes, I would rather kill myself than to lay down in unmade bed while wearing jeans that saw every sort of dirt and dust
In that case, are you fully doing your bed every time, or just putting the duvet or whatever flat on the mattress so that it’s protecting it ?
If you dial the resolution back beyond the bed, you have the whole human experience.
Finding meaning within a finite existence framed against the infinite is not easy but, if you pick up your fucking room a little, maybe it can be done with a bit more class and comfort?
Lmao, matey. If you’re defining class and comfort by the making of a bed, you might need to dial the resolution back even further.
