Do You Make Your Bed Every Morning?

debtmuncher

depends on how much of a "monica" i want to be lol

some days it doesnt get made, some days it does duvet full to the top other days i just turn it half down so that its nice and neat.

as for washing , depends when i can be bothered too! usually in good weather its once a week but if not just whenever i can get round to it. i have enough washing to do and with no space for drying then bedcovers are at the end of the list.

System

I was brought up to air the bed, but now after seeing a program on asthma it is off with the duvet and over a chair as this was the regime they insisted on. I don't suffer luckily, but having bought a new bed and duvet decided to try keep them that way.

ceridwen

Oh well....I'll just keep my mouth shut on housewifely topics in future:rolleyes:. Now I know debates anywhere in my vicinity arent exactly unknown;) - but I never realised that it was possible for one to start up re housewifery:cool: -

....."I'll get me coat" as the saying goes and keep t'next "debate" for matters environmental.....I'm on more familiar territory there:D

'Twas just following me muvver's ways I was yer honour" (as in I think she washed the blankets/eiderdowns yearly....I think...). I've got visions of said mother lurking now going "Well....thats the first time you've ever listened to me in your life:p".....:rotfl:

Miss_Poohs

Hope you don't mind me joining in - just wanted to add that I'm a fold downer too.

I straighten out the bottom sheet and shake out the pillows, and leave the duvet folded down on the bottom of the bed.

I sleep with my window open summer and winter - we're hardy up here in Scotland

[Deleted User]

Yes I do but by 'making it' I whip off the duvet ,plump up the pillows and straighten the sheets then fold the duvet in half and then again and lay it at the bottom of my bed so the bed is aired all day.When I go to bed I just open up my duvet and give it a good shake and spread it back on my bed. I am quite a warm person so I don't change the duvet to a heavier one until around December and then the summer weight one goes back on in March.

minimiser

I understand letting the bed air helps release water vapour released from the body overnight.
If I don't make the bed I worry about falling under a bus and everyone will know I am a slob.
Re airing duvets outside, I was told if you have hay fever don't do this as you bring all the pollen indoors.

greenbee

helyg wrote: »

We don't use a top sheet, just a bottom sheet and duvet, and the duvet cover gets washed every weeks along with the sheet and pillowcases (kids beds sometimes get changed more often due to the obvious!).

I turn back all of the duvets when we get up, then I usually put them back properly when I get back from work at lunchtime. If anyone is in my house looking at the scruffy beds in between then they are clearly a burglar and I'm not too interested in their opinion of my housekeeping!

I have a "trickle vent" on my windows, so I can leave them ajar but still locked, which I do with all of the bedroom windows every morning.

Duvets themselves are washed 3 or 4 times a year. We replace pillows about once a year, after I watched Anthea... She showed that if you balance the pillow on your outstretched forearm it should sit straight, if it is weighed down at the sides then it is full of dead skin and sweat and it is time for a new one. As my son and I are asthmatic this is an issue for us. Also I quite like fluffy new pillows... I know it's probably a waste to throw them away, but I haven't found a way of washing pillows which doesn't ruin them (suggestions appreciated!)

Oh and the curtains are washed twice a year.

I've just washed my pillows (purely because I've been really itchy recently - probably an allergy to disinfectant used in the attic following the removal of some starlings nests, but washing all the bedding made me feel I was doing something!), and just bunged them in the WM @ 40, then hung on the line for a bit, then shoved them in the TD on high (kills the bugs makes sure the feathers are properly dry) with a couple of dryer balls (tennis balls work too) until completely crispy. If anything, they're fluffier than they were, and I know any dust mites will be dead

HariboJunkie wrote: »

I'm another one who airs my bed for a couple of hours most days and I change it when I think it should be changed.

I air my bed most days... sometimes more tidily than others but don't usually make it unless I've put fresh sheets on. And I change it when it needs doing ... if I know I'm going to do it the following day, I sometimes have a bath the night before and put oil on rather than moisturiser for an intensive moisturising treatment, and then give the sheets a nice hot wash in the morning.

I vacuum the mattress when the hoover is in the bedroom when the sheets are off and as it is new, I'm pretty good about turning it. I wash my mattress topper and summer duvet when I feel like it and the weather is right, as they fit in the WM. The thicker duvet is washed a couple of times a year, when I can be bothered to take it in to be done, or when I visit a friend with a large WM.

Reverbe

HariboJunkie wrote: »

Can't you get some kind of mattress to sleep on? It really must be bad for your back sleeping on the floor long term.

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I would but there is really no room for a mattress and at the moment no money as well. There is just about enough room for my bod next to the pc once he has put the bed down for him.

Mags_cat

I'm another one in the "fold the duvet back" camp.

I plump the pillows, stretch out the (fitted) sheet and leave the duvet folded back so that it covers the bottom third of the bed. It still looks neat, so that if anyone else is in my bedroom (the computer's in here, so often have friends in the bedroom) it doesn't look too bad.

The duvet cover, pillow cases and sheet get washed once a week. If I could afford the time, the washing powder (and the tumble drier bill!), I'd have clean sheets every day. I love clean sheets:T. Cotton in the summer, flanelette in the winter.

Note to self : get the duvet washed - everyone else does it far more frequently than you do!:eek:

tandraig

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!