Just for Fun--Do You Make Your Bed Every Day?

Yes! I can't sleep in an unmade bed! (and if my hubby decides to do me a favor and make it up, I usually re-make it! LOL).

Hospital corners, everything tucked in and top folded back made...NO.
Covers and sheets pulled up and straightened with pillows arranged...YES.

Nope. My husband and at least one kid are in it when I leave for work. If I make it, it would just be lumpy.

Yes, except for today because after all the snow shoveling I can no longer move my arms!!!

hahahahaha - no :o)

EDIT: I'm curious why SO many people make their bed when company's coming....when we have people over they do NOT go into our bedroom! LOL

No. I am a very neat person and always have been, but never really got into the bed making thing... who sees it? You've got to cut some stuff out when you're a mom... this is one that I think can be let go!

I honestly only make my bed when I'm going to have company lol

Sometimes I don't get around to making it until right before I go to bed :) I use to be real good about it, but not so much anymore.

We pull up the sheets and comforter, and stack the pillows neatly beside the bed, because we have one dog who loves to roll around on our pillows the second we leave. But go around and tuck in the sides? I don't do that ANY day, let alone every day! : )

Generally no. This isn't the main reason for but they are saying now that it is better to not make your bed right away. Making your bed right after you get up gives dustmites a nice warm moist place to breed supposedly. Leaving the covers off lets your bed air out I guess. If anything this will make you feel better for not making your bed!

no, but I just bought new pillows for my bed and it makes me want to make it every day now.

Nope -I never make my bed. The only time I make it is if we're having guests and they may see my bedroom. I change the sheets regularly, but I've never been a "bed-maker." Funny -my mother always made their bed, but she never made me make mine -unless we were having company over! I went through a phase in my 20s when I would almost always make it, but that passed.

this week i do...i'm on a cleaning kick this week but i'm sure it wont last into next haha

Yes, that is one thing I almost ALWAYS do . . . if only that diligence applied elsewhere in my home LOL.

I almost always do. Sometimes if we are in a hurry though, my husband and I cheat and just sort of tug up the sheet and smooth the duvet out over it! But I like to make it - coming home to a messy bed just bugs me- it seems like one more chore I need to do when I get home from work!

The one other thing I usually do every night no matter how tired I am before bed is clean up the kitchen and either make sure the sink is empty and clean or if I have a pot soaking , everything else is cleaned up. Again, when I am getting ready in the morning, I just want to come out and make my coffee and toast and seeing a messy sink or not having the counter clear to do that just bums me out!

I HAVE to have my bed made everyday... well, except sundays:) But other than that it has to be made everysingle day.
I don't make it once I get outta bed,I usually go to the kitchen & get some breakfast. I get up at 7a.m & usually do it at 10 or 11 a.m, but no later than that.
I did not know about the whole mold buildup & dustmites feeling cosy. Its creepy.
Anyway, this is a fun post. I like it!!!

as soon as everyone gets out of it yes, i fluff the pillows, resituate the sheets and comforter and fold it over nicely. Nothing makes me crazier than an unmade bed.

nope ~ hubby works weird hours and is usually still in bed when I leave and never in a million years would he think to make it.

I can't start my day without making the bed! Drives me crazy when I get out of bed before the husband, and then he gets up and just leaves it all messy.

yes I do! the day can't start without making the bed:)

LOL... nope.

I have no excuse, either. To circumvent the "chore" of it (and because sheets tangle up and trap me in the bed more effectively than handcuffs... I'm a restless sleeper) ALL I have to do is grab the ends of the duvet, loft it, and walk out. Seriously... it would take 3 seconds of my day. I wash my fitted sheet and duvet once a week... and skip the tangledy topsheet completely. Except for this past year. When the whole bed just gets skipped.

I used to until we moved into this house.

In this house the *only* things that are upstairs are the bedrooms (even the clothes wardrobes are downstairs in a dressingroom/laundry room). I pry myself out of bed with a lever and accompany grumbling, lurch down the stairs, pee. Check on kiddo. Take a shower. Get dressed and head outside. for coffee & computer. Then it's laundry & chores, making brunch at 10am, starting school... I often don't see my bedroom until I go to bed again 19 hours later. If I do... I make my bed. But I only go upstairs to my room maybe once a week in the daytime. Ironically, it's usually to change my sheets. But the rest of the time... from groaning vertical it's 19 hours later before I venture back upstairs.

And look! My bed's all ready for me to climb right in!

;)

Can't wait until we can remodel.

yes - I'm obsessive! I wish I wasn't bc who really cares but to me the bedrooms look so much better w/ the beds made and that carries into feeling like the house looks decent so I have to no matter how many times I tell myself not to bother. :)

Every day the second I roll out of bed. I make the side I rolled out of first, then the other side on the way to the bathroom. My whole day feels "wrong" if I don't :)

I make mine every day as soon as I get out (hubby is already at work).

Well when I was an adult with no kids, yes, I made it everyday.

I stopped doing so when the kids were little since it would get messed up but a kid within 5 mins of making it.

Both my teenage boys make their beds. I have no idea why, I never asked them too.

My daughter's room is so messy it's unlikely she can FIND her bed much less make it.

Like someone else said, when there is company (which is often) I will make all the beds.

Otherwise, sure I make it, right before I get in it! And when the sheets get washed.

:)

I grew up with parents who did not make us make the bed so I am not a bed maker other than to pull up then covers to make it look nice if by chance someone was going to be around who might see it. But my husband was raised to make the bed everyday right after getting up, he freaks out if he cant make the bed before he leaves for work. He will sneak home on his lunch and make the bed. Sometimes he even tries to make me get out of bed before Im ready so he can make it before he is leaving.. lol. I really dont care if the beds are made. : )

YES. It makes it less tempting to get back into it.

Nope. Very rarely. Wish I had time/energy to, but there's more important things.

Yes. I can't go to sleep in an unmade bed so I might as well do it in the morning so my room looks neat and tidy.

I do--mostly because I love getting into a nicely made bed at the end of the day. :) It is the one thing I am fussiest about.

NOPE :-) lol Never did, cant see myself starting now !!

No, but I should! :)

Nope. I never had to. If I didn't make my bed as a kid my mom would just go in and make it for me. When I was single I would just sleep on top of the comforter and throw the sheet I used in the closet every morning. LOL, it worked for me. Now having a BF, and a baby....I don't even bother, even though he has mentioned it several times over the years he likes it made.

I havent read all the responses but my hubbie thinks I am so weird because I make the bed everyday. Even if that means I make it right before we go to bed.. right before! lol. He hates it but I can't get into ruffled up sheets : ) So it may not be made right in the morning but it gets made everyday at some point.

My side stays "made". I don't wrinkle the sheets or spread when I'm in it, I fold it back when I get out and put them back in place before I walk away. I have always been that way. Even as a child. I guess I am just not a very restless sleeper.

My husband is not like me. He gets up and leaves the covers flung back or wadded (on his side). My kids are like him. It drives me crazy.

Yes, because if I don't the cats lay on our sheets and get hair all over. And yes, because if I don't my husband mentions something about it....even if the rest of the house is clean. But I ultimately do it because of the cats :P

We sleep in shifts...I sleep at night and SO sleeps during the day ( he works nights) the bed gets made when the sheets get changed or when he is off for vacation.

I hated this chore as a kid... ugh make your bed before school !!!!! WHY !!!!???? so I don't really make my bed unless I am changing sheets or something.. But I have to make the kids beds or I feel like their rooms look messy .. Plus no one is ever in my bedroom besides the hubby and I and when we have nice changed sheets to crawl into it's like a treat haha !!

I'm suprised (and kind of happy) at how many people don't make their beds. Growing up I had to have my bed made every day before leaving for school, when I lived in a dorm in college, there was really no place to sit unless the bed was made so I always made it. Once my hubs and I moved in together we decided we were just going to get back in the bed in a little while anyway so why make it! Once we are ready for the day, the door to our room gets closed and really doesn't get opened again until we are ready to go to bed.

I love hearing all the comments about gross things growing in a made bed, that will just be another reason not to make ours!!

I do make my daughters bed each day though, she really doesn't sleep in the bed (she's 2 and mostly sleeps on the floor or with us) but we do put her to bed in it each night. I make hers because she likes to play on the bed during the day so I make it so that toys don't get lost during the day.

Nope, not fully. The only time it gets made fully is when we change the sheets. I don't make my girls make theirs either. I'd heard on one of the doctor shows that you shouldn't make your bed as soon as you get out of it so that it can dry, especially if you are a night sweater. Which my husband and I are. Keeps the bed from growing mold and such. So I'm good with it. LOL Hope this helps.

I will straighten the sheets enough to pull the comforter up over them, but only because if I don't, the sheets will be covered with cat and dog hair by the time I get home.
But as far as removing every wrinkle, folding hospital corners, and arranging decorative pillows, hell no. Waste of time, in my opinion, when it just has to be undone again every night in order to sleep.

HAH! No.

In fact, I read once that pulling the covers up doesn't allow the mattress and comforter and stuff to "breath" creating a perfect environment for whatever bad stuff lives in your bed...so I've used that as justification to only make my bed right before I go to bed and when company is over. I'm sure it's a bunch of hooey but it makes me feel better, lol.

I'm pretty tidy person and keep a fairly clean house, but NO I don't make my bed each day. I have two young kids and just have other priorities. :)

Nope...never have. Unless I have had a "wild night" (which are few and far between now..lol) there really is no need to make the bed. I make it when I wash the sheets.

Oh my gosh! Hahahah! NO! Of course I was raised that way, but realistically, for me, it's not a priority. I'm actually surprised, with the pace of life these days, that as many people who posted did say YES. Wow. More power to ya.

I spend time playing with and enjoying my children, studying for a Master's program, minor cleaning, grocery shopping, and cooking. After that, either there's no time left or I'm worn slap-out!

I actually wish I had a housekeeper who would "pick up" for me...toys, clothes, etc....It amazes me that kids can make all their items and mine migrate throughout the house and objects from bedrooms and such make their way to my kitchen floor. It astounds me!.

I usually make it before i go to bed. My husband works graves, i work days but i like the feel of tight sheets and equally distributed covers so before bed while the kids are showering I make my bed.

I used to not, but once i started dating my husband, he liked it, so I started doing it. Now, I do it everyday and want it made- he doesn't really care either way.

No. I have never made my bed. I remember my dad would always make it for me when I was growing up, but I never caught on. :) My parents can't stand that about me. heehee

i would love for my bed to be made right before I go to bed lol. it does not always happen in the morning, but if it takes me til 20 min before i go to bed, then I make it :0)

Nope, never. I was never made to do it when I was growing up and I don't do it now. I just don't see the point unless someone is coming over and is going to be in my bedroom for some weird reason.

Yes I do, but most of the time its not perfect, just the cover thrown back and the pillows slightly shaken. No hospital corners for me!! :-) I am still waiting for the housekeeper to come and give me breakfast in bed and make the bed while I'm still in it!! (if only dreams came true) :-)

I rarely used to make it when I was single, but I married an OCD man, so now it gets made every day. Whoever is last out of bed is supposed to make it, and that's usually me. But sometimes I forget, or go shower first, and when I get out the bed is made. We just pull the sheets straight, straighten the pillow cases and pull the comforter over everything, though. The decorative pillows only go on the bed when we're having company, and corners only get tucked when the sheets get washed.

I hate to admit it, but we make our bed when I change the sheets. I guess we could get up earlier, but I don't want to and don't see a reason. I do think we should so it always gets made if we're having company (even for dinner, even if there is zero chance they'll go in our room).

yes, because my hubs hogs the sheets and comforter. it looks all jumbled up in the morning. my kids' chore, well one of them, is to make their beds every day (after they get back from school).

nope, just for company :)

Yes, everyday. I am a stay at home mom now & tidy up every morning when I get up. If I didn't make the bed it would feel messy & not clean in my room...especially since my room is right off the living room. However, when I had to work every morning bed making was the last thing on my list at 6am...but I would make when I got home!

Yup, absolutely make the bed every day. But then I'm a neat-freak like that. :)

If I do nothing else all day, the beds are always made. My kids know they have to make their bed too. Even if I'm running late for something, I still have to make my bed. Our sheets get so tangled up in the middle of the night I have to put things back in order. However, I don't think my husband has ever made a bed once in his entire life!

My mom would tell me, if you make your bed....it makes the rest of your room look neater. It stuck. I make my bed. I passed the advice on to my kids...

Yes! I love a made bed! I require it of the children, so it would be hypocritical of me not to make mine. It helps me get on the right track for the day. ;)

Always!! My daughters bed also always made!!

Yup, it's so big if it's not made it makes the room look so messy....it's the one room I feel I can have complete control & kids are not allowed in there when it's made

Nope! I only make it if people are coming over.

Yes, we make the bed every day. But I don't stress my kids over making theirs. I figure they can make it if they want to. I just like my bed nice and neat. And I would change my sheets daily if I had the time!:)

Nope that is like last on my list sad to say when i get to that part of the list ~~~ Time to crawl back into bed..LOL

I only make mine when I put clean sheets on it, so ONCE a week. The rest of the time I just pull the covers up so catfur doesnt get in it. And I dont even have little kids, lol. With just me and hubby we do not care whether the bed is made or not. When I have anticipated company my bed is made that day tho :)

Yes... It's probably my OCD kicking in lol