Do You Make Your Bed Every Morning?

rachbc

i've only washed my duvet once - when my daughter puked on it! I've had it about 8 years - do I win slattern of the week award?

And if you think thats bad - my daughter had nappies that were wool and designed NOT to be washed!!

Caterina

For most part I am a folderdown too, but sometimes I forget and just plump cushions and pull duvet up nicely before DH comes back (to give him impression I have done housework!). I never forgot what a wise older woman (when I was much younger, that is) told me, that a made bed makes the room. So I do that.

Tend to wash duvet (not cover, duvet proper) once a year, but the other day the cat vomited on it so I had to wash it for the second time in the year LOL

Bedding gets washed between one and two weeks, depending on volume of other washes and weather. More inclined to do bedding wash in sunny weather so it can be aired properly outside rather than on banister.

Caterina

MrsE_2

I used to do the make the bed, then fold the duvet in half back on itself to air the bed.

But I got such a pretty set up now on the bed that I like to see it. So I make it.
All white sheets so needs washing at least once a week, then a big chocolate brown faux fur throw, folded in half & draped over the bottom third of the bed. 6 cushions in chocolate, raspberry & gold over the top half (in a 3, 2, 1 formation).
Drives DH mad:rolleyes::D:rotfl:

Nothing like getting into clean sheets after showering & de-fuzzing.

nm123_2

This thread is actually really interesting! I think it's fascinating to hear how other people live their lives, and also their attitudes towards things (ie some people get excited about or look forward to washing their sheets, whilst others just don't!).

I can honestly say, I've NEVER heard of folding down a duvet to air the sheets on the bed and I've never known anyone in my family or friends to do this. So needless to say, I've not ever done this.

Our bed gets changed pretty much once a week on a Saturday, unless I feel like getting out and about and not bothering with the housework. In fact that's pretty much the view we have with all our housework - it gets done when it needs to be done. We don't live in mess or squalor and my OH and I are actually very house proud... but sometimes life is too short to worry about dusty skirting boards and we choose going shopping/drinking/eating/laughing over faffing around with polish/dusters/hoovers/bleach etc!

However, I've been thinking recently that we need to get a new duvet and some new pillows, so will add that to next weekend's list of chores and just may well turn into a tuner-downer-airer

AussieLass

I make our bed daily. I just usually kick & toss the bedding to the end when I get up and then after I've had brekky etc come upstairs to make the bed & get dressed.

On my bed I have bottom fitted & top sheet, bedspread & then the doona (duvet). I fold it back each morning to lay folded on the foot of the bed in winter. I don't usually wash the cover until I pack it away & will air the duvet that day. It's got duck down in it so haven't washed it. But it's only on our bed not even 3 months :rolleyes: our winters are short lived.

ceridwen

tandraig wrote: »

ceridwen - am horrified if your mum washed 'eiderdowns' it RUINED them! was a 50s child myself and can vividly remember my extremely houseproud nan saying ' its blowing lovely today'
and hanging eiderdowns over the line! also remember asking why not wash them and she answered - would you wash ducks? totally confused by that answer until i was a lot older. lol
the thick 'army' blankets werent washed either - i had the impression they would have 'felted' being made of pure wool?
i hang out my feather duvets when i got a good drying day but at least a couple of times a year! btw had this conv in local chemist once - and the (male) chemist says he never washes his wool jumpers - just hangs them on line for the day!!! never noticed any smell around him!

Crikey to the thought of not washing wool jumpers regularly! I guess he means those thick handknitted ones - which are a right pain to wash - but they still get washed as required - same as the teeshirts and more "standard" type jumpers. I just dont wear that "handknitted" type of jumper very often in the first place - because they're such a pain to wash - and I probably look a lot like an "ageing hippy" sometimes anyway....

Olliebeak

I strip the duvet off the bed, give it a darn good shake and leave the bed to air (windows open) for as long as I can. Around lunchtime, I will straighten out the bottom sheet, plump the pillows and replace the duvet. Duvet cover gets replaced every two weeks.

In the warmest of the summer months, I don't use a duvet at all - just the cover as a top sheet/throw. My lightweight (4.5tog) duvet went back on the bed last week. I'll change that for the heavier (9.5tog) one around November. Then at the end of December, I'll join the two together (Four seasons duvet) to get us through the really coldest part of the winter.

All duvet washing has to be done at the local launderette as my washing machine will only take a single and mines kingsize . The actual bed is only a double but OH is a duvet stealer - :rotfl: all night long!

tandraig

hi ceridwen - yes the chemist meant his ''pure wool fair isle handknitted by his nan jumpers'' sorry - should have included that in post!!!

Kadeeae

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Don't know about all the others, mine (thread) was due to a comment made about my 'unmade' bed spurred on by the fact that I'm getting ready for my "Autumn" clean .

Do an Autumn clean (before house gets 'closed-up' for the winter) and a "Spring" clean (for after the place has been 'cosy' all winter/early spring). May be one for another thread tho . . . :rotfl:

Kadeeae

MrsE wrote: »

I used to do the make the bed, then fold the duvet in half back on itself to air the bed.

But I got such a pretty set up now on the bed that I like to see it. So I make it.
All white sheets so needs washing at least once a week, then a big chocolate brown faux fur throw, folded in half & draped over the bottom third of the bed. 6 cushions in chocolate, raspberry & gold over the top half (in a 3, 2, 1 formation).
Drives DH mad:rolleyes::D:rotfl:

Nothing like getting into clean sheets after showering & de-fuzzing.

Ooo envy, lol! Bed sounds gorgeous, much like what I had prior to my new improved 'fold down' technique