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I air the linenes in the morning and then make the bed later

I make the bed about an hour after getting up. My mom told me when I was younger, even if the rest of the place is messy, a made bed and clean mirrors made up for it. :)

i agree with mputman73 - it only takes me about 30 seconds to make the bed and it makes such a huge difference!

I make it every day, but this is a relatively new habit for me--within the last few years. Has to do with getting into a relationship for the first time in quite a while. (My mother always tried to get me to do it, but I resisted.)

I do it religiously about an hour after I'm up. My thinking is, if I accomplish nothing else that day, at least I'll have made my bed and that's something. I cannot imagine not doing it.

I air. Only make it on weekends, when I'm going to actually be in the bedroom. And if company's coming, hey, it's the same thirty seconds that I might have taken in the morning... or I can just close the door.

As HeatherAB mentioned, it takes only seconds to do. It really does make a difference. If there is one thing my wife and I agree on, it is that the bed must be made (in our case, whomever gets out of bed last makes it, right away).

Even putting clean sheets on doesn't take long--a couple of minutes at the longest.

this is why duvets instead of top sheets are so great, making the bed is literally 5 seconds of pulling the duvet up to the top of the bed.

I wish I were capable of walking out of my bedroom in the morning without making my bed. It is Step 3 in a long, long list of Must-Do's every morning... Once I made it until 3pm without doing it before anxiety got the better of me. How liberating it must be to just toss aside the covers and get on with your day!

It's SO easy, plus it keeps the pets off the sheets!

the Cure made me make the bed everyday and now it's a habit a good one I might add!

For the anti-morning person this can be a pain to do (I don't know why though since it takes only seconds to do). I have, on the positive side, started THINKING about doing it every morning. Hopefully I will start listening to my head sometime soon. Thinking about it is a big step for me though!

I make it once a week.... When I wash the sheets on Sunday. If one side wasn't against the wall, I'd do it more often.

i might get around to making it an hour after i get up . . . if i wasn't long gone from the house by then.

I make mine every day as well -- there's nothing like coming home after a long day at work and having a beautiful, well-made bed to climb into. You quickly gain the knack for it, the bed never gets too messy (since it's being made every day!), and it really does take just a few seconds.

When it's made I don't tend to toss stuff on it, so I make it.

I never used to make my bed. My feeling was "Why should I make it when I'm just going to crawl back into it when I get home?" I used to work long hours. Now that I work a regular 9-5 and I get to spend time in my apartment when I'm awake, I make it every day (I live in a studio so it's not like I can close the door on the messy bed). I really like coming home to a neat apartment at teh end of the work day.

I'd love to resolve to make the bed every morning, but my fiancee works nights, so he's still asleep when I leave in the morning and I don't think he'd be happy if I made the bed while he is still in it :)

got to pull up the duvet at the very least to keep doggie off the sheets and pillowcases.

Making the bed each morning is an easy way to start the day with the positive feeling of accomplishment. It is such a habit that if I don't make the bed it is because it is time to change the sheets and I change them the first chance I get. Plus, a made bed makes up for the laundry that isn't put away...

my bedroom is in direct line with the front door, next to the livingroom (only room that gets some light too), so closing the door isn't a good option. So I make it every day, and I find I like turning down my bed just before I go to sleep, it's a new ritual for me (I was sleeping in a loft bed for years until recently).

Ha ha, I'm laughing at Adam's bed coming up again - he took so much crap for that (it was ill-expected)!

If there was an option that fell between the top two, I'd choose that - initially the bed looks so nice after I make it up, but my wife sits down on it a half a dozen times while in the process of getting ready (argh). I was forced to make my bed every day of my life growing up, and grumbled with every breath I took while doing it. I vowed that as an adult my bed linens would consist of nothing more than a fitted sheet and comforter/duvet, thus requiring less than one minute of my time. I kept to my vow and will never go back.

Every morning my bed looks like a half completed macrame project thanks the thrashing of my bf. Since I'm borderline OCD the very least I can do is pull the duvet as tightly as possible and flatten out the obvious wrinkles. At least 3 times a week I strip back the sheets, remind him that they ARE in fact rectilinear, and make the bed with hospital corners. Knowing full well that he will kick them out again in just a few hours.

I tried this and had it going for about a week. It really does make a big difference. Even when the rest of my bedroom looked like a disaster area, when the bed was neat and made when I walked in it just seemed... somewhat clean. I'm going to start doing this again.

I make my bed everyday because, even if everything else in my life is in complete chaos, at least I have that one thing at the end of the day that makes me feel like I'm still in control.

Yes. Every day.

My mother would be proud.

That being said... Please find a new "generic bed visual." I'd like to think that ATers, at the very least, have their beds off the floor! LOL!

i make my bed everyday. i'm proud of our little home; in part because of things like a neat and tidy bed.

I keep worrying about the guitar in that picture. what if someone sits on it by mistake.

Back to regularly interrupted thread: I work from home, so more often than not sometime before lunch it gets made. If I haven't done it by then, I don't bother.

I cannot leave the house without making the bed.

Nope. I work at home, and one of the biggest pleasures of that is being able to take a nap mid-day. A too-perfect bed is uninviting.

I pull the doona cover up, but it's somewhat tricky when you have a loft bed...

I wander back and forth. It depend on how messy my room is. My room wanders between immaculate and disaster, so sometimes it's made perfectly, and others it's left a mess.

I tend to make it more often when The Boyfriend is going to be spending the night, as otherwise he hogs the blankets.

murphy bed. :D best part about those things

Compulsively every day.

Even if I'm sick, I get out of the bed, make it, and climb back in.

i'm shocked so many people make their bed! i love the feeling of rumpled covers and having the comforter and pillows all scrunched up when i climb in.