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Growing up somewhere cold with usually just enough blankets, I would often need to wrap the blankets around me to fully trap the heat. When the sheets are solidly tucked in, you have to rip them out before you can wrap.
I am basically never comfortable in a made bed. If I visit a friend and the guest bed has the sheets tucked in, I have this low level subconscious response of βI guess thatβs one more thing I have to deal with now.β Not that they are wrong for doing it, but it does grate a tiny bit versus sleeping at home.
Haha, I have the same feeling for opposite reasons. I grew up in a warmer environment but kept my feet against the cool exterior wall my bed was next to. Now I have to have my feet uncovered and a fan on just to feel comfortable and tucked in sheets feel like I'm trapped.
Being human, eh?
Or perhaps it's wonderful news about literally every aspect of life, in a nihilist way. Why try in any aspect of life if it will eventually get messed up again and your efforts will definitely be in vain? There is peace in surrendering to the inevitable chaos.
I learned early in life (from ocd parenting figures) that you have to set a certain level of clean you need in your life to how much of your life is taken up by it.
I know people who spend their entire waking hours cleaning. Can't have 1 dirty dish. Floor cannot have a spec. Lawn must be pure green grass so kill all dandelions and any "weed" (also this is terrible for the environment but anyway). All glass absolutely spotless. Its sad how much of their life they spend just cleaning, to me anyway.
I just have a rule that I don't let things be disgusting. Do I have dishes in the sink? Yes. Is it overflowing and molding? No. I vacuum and sweep maybe once every couple weeks or if it gets visually dirty faster.
I have way more important things in life than keeping things spotlessly clean.
Making a bed? Never done once in adult life. Complete waste of time for me. washing bedsheets and blankets, obviously yes we have to do that.
Funny enough, this threshold for what you find dirty or gross can cause a lot of relationship strife within a household as partners may have different thresholds for this.
Generally, the partner that has a lower threshold for when they feel like things are too dirty or too messy or too gross and it starts bugging them feels like they do most of the cleaning work because they start feeling stressed and end up cleaning earlier then the other.
Making a bed? Never done once in adult life. Complete waste of time for me. washing bedsheets and blankets, obviously yes we have to do that
Well now I'm curious - you don't make the bed when putting on the clean sheets and blankets?
Routine is probably the most important part of building a cleaning habit. I'm very similar in that there's a certain level of untidiness that is perfectly acceptable in my home. Gotta keep on top of everything somewhat so that there isn't health consequences, mental or physical.
Nah. I put the fitted sheets and pillowcases on, then throw the blankets on top ha
It's funny, I'm not a bed maker either, but when I put new sheets on I make it perfect, only to come back that night and untuck the sheets and whatnot because I like my legs out. It's pointless, but I do love getting into fresh sheets.
Exactly what we do! I "make" the bed when I get into it, using my feed to kick out the blankets.
Ha, well thanks for answering! That's certainly a way to do it :D
Me and the dog will mess up the blankets anyway haha we thrash around in sleep
I live with a household of people who do not make their beds. It's hard to explain the immense satisfaction I get slipping into a perfectly made bed. It takes all types hahaha
I just have a rule that I donβt let things be disgusting.
Some people who spend their entire waking hours cleaning believe exactly the same as you. They just have different thresholds of "disgusting". My in-laws are like that. I'm much closer to you; where I can easily accept untidy, but not dirty.
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A nod to my parents on this one: up until age 12 or so, it was just mattress, fitted sheet, and sleeping bag.
Mom even sewed little straps to the non-zipper side of the sleeping bag, which secured to the bedframe: kept my dumb ass from rolling out of bed without needing to screw around with rails.
Make the bed? Just pull the corner on the foot and head opposite the straps. 2 seconds, perfectly flat.
Eventually I switched to normal sheets and such cuz in my brain, sleeping bags were for kids!! ...aka, the parents tricked me into wanting to make the bed cuz I'm a big boi, see?!
Well played mom and dad. 10/10
Good attempt at a lesson, terrible actual chain of logic.
The attempted lesson here is presumably that things require regular maintenance and attention, in order to keep working well, working as they have been.
So... 'wash your bedding once a month, or after a spill or accident'... or ... 'clean your room once a week, so that it doesn't get so messy that you lose things or trip over stuff' ... or ... 'try your best to clean up dishes and cookware and put them away soon after you use them, so that the next time you need to use them, you can usually just assume they will be usable'.
A made bed?
I mean yeah, it can be useful as a simple routine for the sake of establishing any routine, or as regular mild excercise.
But an actual bed that is unmade... being not tidy does not make it more liable to degrading over time, unless shit is literally strewn across the room.
Or... unless you have some kind of very particular linens of something, where being crumpled will ruin their structural integrity...?
I'm trying to be generous here, but I think this is just an aesthetic preference masquerading as somehow ... actually functional.
Keeping your sheets and blankets clean, yeah that's functional.
Keeping them super tidy?
OCD pretending to not be OCD.
wash your bedding once a month, or after a spill or accident
for the love of god don't tell me you only wash your bedding once a month π€’
Heh, yeah.
Asshole who never makes his bed here.
There's no value for the bed or room, but I see potential value for the person. I've got to admit, my friends who generally have their shit together are also the ones who make their bed.
Not that the bed making is some magic key, but they train themselves to treat all things as important and keep it together as they go.
As they walk by the room through the day, they get to see a well made bed and feel a bit better about the state of their affairs generally, thinking better of themselves and expecting more of themselves.
Idk, obviously I'm not living this way.
It's a lot of thought to put into a bed, but this is a comment section, a good place to get unnecessarily philosophical.
As they walk by the room through the day, they get to see a well made bed and feel a bit better about the state of their affairs generally, thinking better of themselves and expecting more of themselves.
Having a well kept space feels like it keeps my head clearer as well. It's easier to think in a clean and organized space and I feel more at ease when the items around me are in their place. I know when I'm struggling mentally, my home ends up falling apart and it's truly a reflection of my well being.
I think you absolutely nailed it with your comment on how some other people treat tidying up.
That's exactly why you should not blindly follow things though. There is literally no advantage to a nicely made bed except that it looks nice. If that is not worth the effort of making the bed, then why would you do it?
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"Exactly, there's so much shit you have to do over and over in life, why add unnecessary things to it??"
Jim Gaffigan likened making your bed to tying your shoes after you take them off. I do enjoy making my bed every now and then to keep things tidy, but that comparison is absolutely perfect.
Some people are experts at making more pointless busywork for themselves. My parents had a real knack of storing things that need to be used in one room and replaced often... as far away as possible. Like who the fuck keeps spare kitchen paper towels in the bedroom?
I've made a bed a handful of times in my life. The one time I remember specifically was when I had my first girlfriend over to my house when I was 17.
If you don't want to make your bed, don't do it. After 60 years of not making my bed, I've suffered zero ill effects.
Yeah it's something for regimental types. I read something about some military dude priding himself on it.
I'm very chaotic (ADHD) so nope. I couldn't function in a regimental environment anyway.
My theory of military bed making is that originally they had to grab the sheets and go on a very short notice, so it makes sense to "pre-pack" them. However, it gradually evolved into a performative art.
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