Do You Make Your Bed Every Morning?

System

I don't make it everyday, but that's because some days i don't move from bed

Mum always had a thing about airing the sheets by folding the duvet half back through

Melonade

Confuzzled wrote: »

yuo know i've never considered hoovering the mattress but maybe i should. i do also wash my pillows whenever i wash my duvet so perhaps i'll work hoovering the mattress into that too... i dont' have bad dust allergies but they're bad enough, why tempt fate if theirs an easy way to avoid it

I saw it on a programme ages ago and tbh didn't think anything of it but one day decided to give it a try. I was horrified at the colour of the dust and grime that came out into the hoover (and it was a fairly new mattress) Now I sprinkle the mattress with bicarb in the morning and hoover it later in the day. It does seem a lot fresher, maybe I'm a little bit mad :eek:

BeenieCat

Melonade wrote: »

I saw it on a programme ages ago and tbh didn't think anything of it but one day decided to give it a try. I was horrified at the colour of the dust and grime that came out into the hoover (and it was a fairly new mattress) Now I sprinkle the mattress with bicarb in the morning and hoover it later in the day. It does seem a lot fresher, maybe I'm a little bit mad :eek:

Wow, you do that every day??:eek::eek:

I don't make my bed, i do nothing with it generally. Unless i'm changing the sheets!

I don't 'air' my bedroom either. Although it's much nice now my ex has gone cos he used to sweat buckets and i'd have to change the sheets all the time, now i can lie in my own dead skin cells for 2 weeks if i want to :rotfl:

Melonade

No I don't do it everyday, about once a month - 6 weeks :rotfl: Doubt I could afford all that bicarb

valk_scot

I take my duvet out into the hall when I get up and hang it over the bannisters to air out. I leave it there till I go out (whenever that might be) then I make the bed...well, I shake the duvet back onto the bed and bash up the pillows. Is that really making a bed? I remember the days of sheets, hospital corners and four wooly blankets in the winter...plus bedspread and feather quilt. Now that was making a bed!

I have a thin mattress protector on the bed and change/wash it every two weeks, when I change the bed. The mattress gets hoovered if I'm ever hoovering when the bed is stripped. I turn the mattress once a month as well.

The only faintly unusual thing I do after I make the bed is to put a big tartan mohair blanket on top. My two cats adore this and pad it into little nests...they sleep there all day. It's a well used bed!

Oldernotwiser

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.

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I thought I was a slattern but washing your duvet cover once a year!:eek:

PasturesNew

Zazen999 wrote: »

I read on to find out where you slept.....won't that completely bu66er your back up in time? I'm worried about you now...:(

No, should be OK. I had a bad back about 30 years ago (brief spell in a wheelchair for 1-2 days when it gave out completely), so I know what that's all about. I had sciatica on/off for 10 years... I remember one day I was leaving work and it went. It took me nearly an hour to walk 100 yards to my moped to ride home (luckily I was right and when I got on that and pointed it homewards I was OK).

I mainly sleep curled up, so any space works for me.

PasturesNew

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

I thought I was a slattern but washing your duvet cover once a year!:eek:

I must admit, I've been quiet on the issue of washing habits as I feel dirty when it's 2-3 weeks

If I was doing rumpy pumpy stuff I'd be washing it twice a week. All that sweat and fluids... probably I'd change it after each time ... who knows. Maybe she's changing it after every rumpy pumpy session ... once a year :j.

vivamartin

I change the top and botton sheet and pillowcases every week, if ill every day.
Duvet cover every 2 or 3 weeks.
Duvets every 3 or 4 months.
Courtains, once a year .

Fire_Fox

Mr. Fire Fox bought us an oak bed frame, memory foam topped mattress and all new bedding two years ago. I made the bed daily for a good number of months as Mr. FF worked early shifts so was always gone first. But the first summer came and he was always hot at night, so I took to chucking the duvet on the floor to air the bed for the day! We open our windows daily year round (third floor flat so secure when out).

My sheets gets washed weekly or up to ten days if I am out a lot. We have mattress and pillow protectors which I wash when I they need it - more in the summer or if my hair dye leaks or any other accident! I'm afraid I don't wash pillows or duvets at all this is the first time I have ever had good quality pillows, so in the past cheap duvets and pillows got chucked when they went lumpy or at all grubby looking.

The mattress is our all time best bargain - wandered into Leeds M&S late one afternoon and spotted an ex-display kingsize £900 reduced to £225. :eek: Lay down and I knew I had to have it, no matter that we don't have a car. We rolled around for about twenty minutes daring each other to manhandle it home on the rush hour train, I was laughing so hard I had to cross my legs. :rotfl: