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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 10:51 AM
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Poll question: Making Beds in the morning: Do you or don't you?
Since I've moved out of my mother's house many many years ago, I've pretty much given up ever making a bed. Sure, once a week I'm pretty faithful to changing the sheets and at that time the bed will get made. Other than that - why make the bed when I'm only going to use it again at the end of the night? Of course when I visit my mother, she's irritated that she has to bug me to do it every morning.

So what's your bed making status
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 10:53 AM
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1. Only on occasions!
Otherwise I just make sure nothing is on the floor when I leave the house. As long as the sheets are clean, that's all I need. Speaking of which, laundry time soon! :think:
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 10:53 AM
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2. I'm a once a week or company coming over bedmaker....
I just don't see the point.
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curse10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 10:54 AM
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3. Every single morning.
I can't stand going to bed in an unmade bed. I know, it's weird.
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 10:55 AM
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4. I was a bed-making fanatic when I was in the Army.
You could bounce a quarter off those tight sheets and blankets! Since then, I've gotten very lazy. Just seems like a waste of time now.
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Jeff in Cincinnati Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 10:56 AM
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5. I'm just going to mess it up again!
Why bother?
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Insider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 10:57 AM
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6. neatness counts
a nice feeling to be in a neat room.
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AWD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 10:58 AM
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7. Bed?
Bed? What is this 'bed' that you speak of?
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Jeff in Cincinnati Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 11:18 AM
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16. Spent two years in college
Sleeping on an inflatable air mattress and a sleeping bag. "Rolling out of bed" was just that!
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AWD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 11:23 AM
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19. I sleep on a couch
My work schedule keeps me up until 2am every night, and my wife wakes up if I crawl into bed...so to give her a full night's sleep, I go to the couch.
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cmf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 11:00 AM
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8. It has a positive effect on the room's energy.
So if I'm last up, I always make the bed. Unfortunately, my husband usually gets up after me and he's more lax in his bedmaking.
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Champion Jack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 11:02 AM
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9. I don't sleep in a bed
I hang by my toes from a tree branch.
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 11:04 AM
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10. Nope
I am out of bed and working at least 3 hours before my hubby is up. By the time I get home (doing early since we are having triple digit heat) I am hot and sweaty and ready to settle down in the coolness for DU time.
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NewGuy Donating Member (305 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 11:05 AM
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11. That's my spouses job...
Though if I could sleep in the additional 1 1/2 hours she gets, I would gladly take on the job.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 11:06 AM
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12. When The Bed Is Made... The Bedroom Is 90% Cleaned!!!
It's AMAZING at how UNTIDY an unmade bed can make a tidy room appear to be.

Conversely...

A neatly made-up bed can help improve the overall appearance of a room that's mostly untidy.

It only takes 2 minutes to make up a bed (if the sheets are already in place)... so why not do it.

Besides... even though I'm "only going to mess it up again", I do like crawling into a neat bed.

-- Allen
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 11:09 AM
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13. I don't my wife does
every damn morning. When I had my own place the bed got made once a week when I changed the sheets.
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WoodrowFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 11:16 AM
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14. when return from work
am too busy getting out of the house to work in the am, so make it at night when change clothes after work.
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bikebloke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 11:17 AM
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15. Always
I feel like a slob otherwise. It certainly makes a difference living in a small studio flat. However, I'm not a neat freak. Vacuuming and dusting tend to get neglected.

Once the subject came up in coversation. A married friend exclaimed, "YOU MAKE YOUR BED!!! Why hasn't someone married you?"
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 11:22 AM
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17. I started making my bed everyday
about a year ago.

Wow! What a difference it makes! Try it for just one week and you'll see. It improves my whole frame of mind, and makes the bedroom look so much nicer. A very little effort that reaps a lot of reward.
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Mr. McD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 11:23 AM
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18. Once a week when the housekeeper comes.
It's just going to get messed up again anyway.
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