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Do You Fully Make Your Bed Every Day?
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Nope! My mom even made me a decorative comforter that matches my curtains and it hasn't once been spread out on the bed.
Yes, I always do too. I am also a bit of a neat freak. Things just would feel undone if not.
I also like to get into a smooth, neat bed at night.
I also like to get into a smooth, neat bed at night.
I have to make the beds everyday. The girls feel that it makes a much better backdrop for their gorgeous-ness. 
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Yes!! We have 14 pillows.
The only time I won’t make my bed is if Sebastian is sleeping in the middle of it.
Which happens to be often.
I’ll make it once he leaves.
The only time I won’t make my bed is if Sebastian is sleeping in the middle of it.
Which happens to be often.
I’ll make it once he leaves.
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I did until my husband moved into our home shortly before our wedding. Like @Lari we have two blankets because he would take all the blankets in his sleep and put them on the other side of him. I would be freezing, and he would be using it for a leg prop. I still made the bed and just folded his blanket and put it at the foot of the bed. He hated it for some reason. He never could tell me exactly why other than it did not feel "homey." Now, I half make my side of the bed and his is a big ball of blanket.
We don't have decorative pillows and each have our own duvet with a (envelope-like sheet) cover, so making the bed is just a matter of fluffing the pillows and straightening the duvets. We both do our own side every day.
At the very least, we will straighten the sheets and blankets out in the morning. But it's hard to completely make the bed when the cats are sacked out all over it. On Sundays, I wash the bed linens and then completely make the bed at that point.
I do like getting into a neat bed at the end of the day.
I do like getting into a neat bed at the end of the day.
Sara Jane used it the most, and she preferred a few bumps in the folds to rest her chin on. Even though she died on January 29th, I still find myself doing this every morning. Then, I get sad, realising that she no longer needs it.
RIP sweet girl. 
I managed to make the bed this morning while Ruby was having breakfast. She's back now, though.
Looking at the picture, I see one of the pillows isn't straight. Hmmm... let's just say I did that on purpose so the pillow behind the sham could be seen.
Looking at the picture, I see one of the pillows isn't straight. Hmmm... let's just say I did that on purpose so the pillow behind the sham could be seen.
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I love this thread with the pictures of the bed and the cats too, of course.
No. Lilith is usually in it. I do not dare disturb the queen. 
My cats "make" the bed . There are extra pillows - for them ! 
I don't make it unless I've washed sheets or the cats messed them up. I sleep like a rock. I don't disturb the bedding at all. I think it's strange how I don't mess up the bed at all.
Also this is the exact kind of chore that I would not do even if the bedding was messy looking. If it's clean I don't care about appearance. I have enough duties that make me feel like Sisyphus. So I believe in minimizing things that aren't important.
Also this is the exact kind of chore that I would not do even if the bedding was messy looking. If it's clean I don't care about appearance. I have enough duties that make me feel like Sisyphus. So I believe in minimizing things that aren't important.
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I used to leave the bed messy then when got with Jon he religiously makes the bed every day..thenwe started sleeping in the livingroom and now we just fold up our blankets or make shelves out of the blankets for Honeybee to sleep on. When I used to sleep on a bed-there is a fitted sheet on the bed then I have a comforter for covering me. I never use flat sheets. I hate sheets touching my feet. Jon is a very restless sleeper so we no longer share a bed...unless I want to be woken up every 10 minutes.
I never bought fancy pillows/shams etc...I buy pillows that are plump enough to keep me sitting up in my sleep...Growing up i never made my bed..but my room was the last room on the 2nd floor so no one ever saw my bed back then...never really was a neat freak until I met Jon...he will leave the bed messy if royal Highness is sleeping ontop of the blankets. If she hogs the couch he will curl up at the other end..we never move her when she's sleeping...she runs the house.
As far as fancy shams-I hate rough textures or polyester type feeling bedclothes so I wouldn't be able to tolerate those fancy bed covers..the threading and texture would drive me nuts-I always drawn to soft smooth comforters and now quilts...I have a quilt falling apart but I don't care-we still use it.
I never bought fancy pillows/shams etc...I buy pillows that are plump enough to keep me sitting up in my sleep...Growing up i never made my bed..but my room was the last room on the 2nd floor so no one ever saw my bed back then...never really was a neat freak until I met Jon...he will leave the bed messy if royal Highness is sleeping ontop of the blankets. If she hogs the couch he will curl up at the other end..we never move her when she's sleeping...she runs the house.
As far as fancy shams-I hate rough textures or polyester type feeling bedclothes so I wouldn't be able to tolerate those fancy bed covers..the threading and texture would drive me nuts-I always drawn to soft smooth comforters and now quilts...I have a quilt falling apart but I don't care-we still use it.
Yes I make the bed mostly every day. I just have two regular pillows and two pillows with shams that match the bedspread. I don’t like all the decorative pillows. I’d have nowhere to put them at night except the floor.
i make my bed when i change the sheets. otherwise, i fold back the blanket(s) when i get up in the morning, and they get pulled back over me when i go to bed at night. most nights, by the time i get ready for bed, i'm pooped, just really very tired. so i choose to have my bed ready for me to get under the blanket(s).
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I tried having a nice bed once or twice when Milly was a kitten. But the bed has always been a playing surface for her and it's right within her main Zoomie Pathway. Those times I have made the bed, and put our nice quilt on top covering everything, she's raced across it and torn up the quilt with her toenails.
Also, she loves blankies. So, what I do now on a daily basis is just to have the quilt as the "base" and scatter or fold or pile 5-6 of her blankies all over the top of it to protect it from toenails. It's not pretty. But she thinks it's functional.
We don't have decorative pillows on the bed, just sleeping pillows. Those usually become the sides of a blanket-draped, concave "Thunderdome" of a playpen area for Milly.
Also, she loves blankies. So, what I do now on a daily basis is just to have the quilt as the "base" and scatter or fold or pile 5-6 of her blankies all over the top of it to protect it from toenails. It's not pretty. But she thinks it's functional.
We don't have decorative pillows on the bed, just sleeping pillows. Those usually become the sides of a blanket-draped, concave "Thunderdome" of a playpen area for Milly.
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I'm rather anal about everything.
Every day I strip the bed, vacuum the mattress and then remake it, with all the little pillows and the teddies put back in their correct spots.
Then the cats climb up there and spend the rest of the day sleeping or watching birds out the window.
I hardly ever make it because my hubby gets up after me. He makes it. I think maybe I am getting the short end here - I have to take the dogs out in the morning since I am first up. This morning it was 17 degrees and snowing. Meanwhile he is snuggled under the electric blanket. I don't use decorative pillows - just more junk to move and try to find a spot to put them.
