Do You Make Your Bed Every Morning?

sistercas

i fold the duvet down as soon as I get up, poor OH 'cos he is usually still in it
and then I make the bed after I have had breakfast

Melonade

I plump the pillows and give the duvet a good shake then fold it down so the bed airs. I'd love to be able to use a sheet underneath the duvet but my OH is too tall and his feet feel trapped.

I give the mattress a good hoover once a month too.

Shelley84

I never make my bed, mainly because I am just to damn lazy to bother with it!! I'll make it if I know people are coming round, and may walk past the bedroom and see!! I do like to open the window a bit each morning for a few hours though to air the room.

freakyogre

I don't hoover my mattress as read that it actually pushed the dirt deeper into the mattress. I use a mattress protector, so don't know if that helps.
I only got my bed in December, so hopefully it won't have too many dead bits in it yet

Mice_Elf

I air the bed every day. Our windows are open constantly, spring, summer, autumn & winter. So constantly in fact, that 1 has ever so slightly warped & now won't lock close!

I plump the pillows, straighten the bottom sheet & fold the duvets right back, so they hang over the end of the bed & leave most of the bed to air. Our bedroom is right on the top floor, so no one needs to go up there unless they want to sleep in our bed!

I love climbing into a fresh, cool aired bed. The room is usually cold, too, due to both sets of windows being open all day & night.

Confuzzled

lillibet_dripping wrote: »

We lived for 6 years in Holland and every morning (at least in the tiny village we lived in) they hung their duvets out of the window to air them.

i can concur this was very common when i was in amsterdam, we lived in student accomodation (family and singles) and the most common students to do this were from the netherlands and germany but i think this is fairly common amongst many european countries from what i've seen

i always leave mine tossed back so air can get in and dry out any sweat, my windows are always open unless it's cold so this allows the air to get to duvets (well, it's been enough for me!) i am very good about washing my duvets (i don't just wash the covers i always wash the cover AND the duvet) as well as pillows so this combined with just tossing the duvet cover back so most of the bed is exposed to open air works fairly well for me

part of this is because i know it's best to allow them to dry out and part of it is sheer laziness, no one really sees my bedroom but me so as far as i'm concerned that's enough

buxtonrabbitgreen

Confuzzled wrote: »

i can concur this was very common when i was in amsterdam, we lived in student accomodation (family and singles) and the most common students to do this were from the netherlands and germany but i think this is fairly common amongst many european countries from what i've seen

i always leave mine tossed back so air can get in and dry out any sweat, my windows are always open unless it's cold so this allows the air to get to duvets (well, it's been enough for me!) i am very good about washing my duvets (i don't just wash the covers i always wash the cover AND the duvet) as well as pillows so this combined with just tossing the duvet cover back so most of the bed is exposed to open air works fairly well for me

part of this is because i know it's best to allow them to dry out and part of it is sheer laziness, no one really sees my bedroom but me so as far as i'm concerned that's enough

yes I noticed all the duvets hanging out of the windows in Denmark too. I never wash the duvet only the covers.

Confuzzled

ceridwen wrote: »

Well Thriftlady - in my book the idea of a top sheet with the duvet means the duvet cover keeps "clear enough" that I can just wash said duvet cover annually - as the top sheet gets whipped off and washed at the same time as bottom sheet. So I regard that as laboursaving.

i'm honestly not picking on anyone here but can i say a big ewwwwwwwwwwwwww to that concept? :eek:

ones sweat, body oils and germs will still seep through a top sheet and duvet cover and into a duvet and only washing a duvet once a year is not very healthy, especially if anyone has dust allergies or has had bad colds/flu etc etc.

i'm not a health nut or a clean freak by any standard but i do wash my duvets at least once every 2 months even if no one has been ill. mind you i never use sheets (i have one duvet on top and one below) but a thin sheet will not stop anything from getting through to your duvet so they really should be cleaned at the very least quarterly just to help reduce respiratory issues at the very least....

tandraig

i'd love to know - how many people are actually viewing your bedrooms? keep the door shut! lol
i air the bed each day cos of my age - no other menopause symptoms other than i sweat buckets at night, may be slight mad actually and daughter would say 'no change there then', and reason given before.
as to bed bugs - yes they do live in bed - i found that out to my cost when i accepted second hand bed (during miners strike and i needed one so i wasnt fussy bout it - I am now!) the little !!!!!!s can hibernate for ages too. didnt realise what was wrong and kept going to docs with strange rash. my mother in law took one look and diagnosed it straight away - we took the bed to wasteland and burned it!!! then returned next day to take iron bedframe to scrap yard! oops sorry about long post

Confuzzled

ceridwen wrote: »

Ahh...but I dislike the struggle to get the duvet snugly back into its cover....(king size!) - so I think its easier to just have to change the sheet.

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you can do what i do sometimes... i wash the duvet IN it's duvet cover

not sure if your machine is big enough for that but if it can take the king size duvet i'd think it could also take a thin duvet cover too

course i guess this depends on how often you want to wash your duvet or covers, i wash my duvet covers about every 3 weeks, the duvet only gets washed every 6-8 weeks