Do You Make Your Bed Every Day?

[+ Avalon]

Bed is made Monday thru Friday by housekeeper. Left unmade on weekends unless guests are coming. Still use linen napkins for dinner parties and use ironed sheets.

 

Regarding linen napkins. When I was a boy I belonged to 4H. One year at the county fair I entered a table setting. Matching table cloth and napkins. Both had a design. I was docked points. I was told that the linen napkins should have been plain with no design.

[MscleLovr]

What an interesting thread.

 

My boyfriend makes our bed daily. He did it unasked after our first date and has continued ever since. I send the sheets etc out to be laundered and ironed. And we use linen napkins at every meal.

 

I like these rituals in our life together.

[+ Gar1eth]

You can hate something that only takes a few minutes almost as much as you can hate something that takes a long time-or at least I can. Plus because of the bed frame and the constricted location, I'm usually hitting my shins on the frame at the very least if not actually gouging them on the sharp protrusions sticking out of the frame.

 

This bed is of the devil!!

 

Gman

 

Replace it!!

 

I can't.

 

Gman

 

Horse puckey!!

 

Unless you’re institutionalized or otherwise incapacitated you absolutely can replace it. Otherwise you’ve made a perfectly legitimate value judgment on the cost of doing so. But that value judgment limits the legitimacy of your complaint.

 

While I'm not institutionalized ,it's an irreplaceable feature of the place I'm living currently. I can't change the furniture.

 

Gman

[+ Charlie]

What I don't like about making my bed is that it is so difficult to find sheets that are not 100% cotton, which means that they are always wrinkled, and I refuse to iron sheets. I used to be able to buy decent colored sheets that were cotton-polyester blends of various kinds that stayed relatively unwrinkled, but I can't find them any longer. That means that I always have to use some kind of spread over them, and they are getting harder to find--at a reasonable price--as well.

[Rudynate]

What I don't like about making my bed is that it is so difficult to find sheets that are not 100% cotton, which means that they are always wrinkled, and I refuse to iron sheets. I used to be able to buy decent colored sheets that were cotton-polyester blends of various kinds that stayed relatively unwrinkled, but I can't find them any longer. That means that I always have to use some kind of spread over them, and they are getting harder to find--at a reasonable price--as well.

 

 

If you want synthetic blend sheets you have to spend down and look in places like Walmart and kmart.

[+ Charlie]

Why didn't I think of that?

[+ g56whiz]

If you want synthetic blend sheets you have to spend down and look in places like Walmart and kmart.

Or Amazon!!

[Rudynate]

And I just saw microfiber sheets that are supposed to keep you cool. A queen set was ~$30.00.

[Lookin]

I hardly ever make my bed

It's laziness, I think

The last time was in '89

When I misplaced a twink

http://www.boybriefs.com/content/2012/af373e6db447_8420/beauty-in-bed_thumb.jpg

[samhexum]

I hardly ever make my bed

It's laziness, I think

The last time was in '89

When I misplaced a twink

http://www.boybriefs.com/content/2012/af373e6db447_8420/beauty-in-bed_thumb.jpg

 

 

OMG!!! Did you ever find him?

[LivingnLA]

We make our beds every day. Apparently so does this young man.

 

[BabyBoomer]

 

 

The late Josh Weston. We lost him way too soon..

 

~Boomer~

[Nvr2Thick]

In Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist Macon Leary sews a bed sheet into a pocket shape at home so that he can easily slip in and out of it without remaking the bed, while also reducing his laundry effort. When I first read the book I wondered why this point was included, other than to reinforce his obsession with processes to add convenience and order. Upon further thought and a second reading I wondered if this behavior was supposed to underscore his depression, misery, and withdrawal from society -- a practice that made him appear unobtrusive within his own house by himself, but that would seem ridiculous or even unacceptable if he weren't resigned to living alone. At that point in his story he was existing without disturbing anyone or anything, including his own bed.