making your bed
08-18-2016, 04:30 AM
#42
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Central Wisconsin
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I'm not a very good housekeeper, but my beds are made, the bathrooms are clean and the kitchen looks reasonably in order.
What if you came home one day and your kitchen cupboard doors were all wide open? That's the way I feel about an unmade bed. I have to make it up; right now.
What if you came home one day and your kitchen cupboard doors were all wide open? That's the way I feel about an unmade bed. I have to make it up; right now.
08-18-2016, 04:31 AM
#43
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Illinois
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Daily routine, don't like to crawl into a ruffled bed at night, except on laundry day, then beds get stripped, windows open except now in high humidity and heat and a/c, for about an hour, then redressed and ready for Good Housekeeping photographers to come.....been waiting a LONG time for that doorbell to ring. And at night, kitchen has to be in order...no dishes in sink...dishwasher emptied, etc. hate to get up in morning and have to do that....
Last edited by Geri B; 08-18-2016 at 04:34 AM.
08-18-2016, 04:59 AM
#46
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
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I shake the sheets and pillowcases every morning and then make the bed. It's part of my bedroom clean up every morning before leaving the room, if DH is awake. LOL My kids never used anything on their beds but pillows and bottom sheet and one cover. A bed skirt kept the bed looking nice made or not.
08-18-2016, 05:12 AM
#47
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: St. Louis suburbs
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Yes, we make our bed every day, my room looks neat and pretty with vintage quilts replaced weekly. I use thick mattress pads also, my mattress used to be in plastic to keep dust mites out, but I stopped that a few years back.
08-18-2016, 05:47 AM
#49
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Location: Corpus Christi, Tx.
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DH and I perspire easily so the bed does get aired for a short time (shower time and breakfast) I wash sheets every other day.
Originally Posted by Dakota Rose
Just read somewhere last week that you should leave it open to air and dry (from body sweat) unless you are into changing sheets every day. Keeps it fresher.
08-18-2016, 06:49 AM
#50
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Carroll, Iowa
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I still make my bed before I leave to go downstairs. I'll pull the sheets/spread down after rolling out of it (yes, I roll out, not get out), hit the bathroom to brush my teeth, take my meds and relieve myself, then back to the bedroom to make it, then down the stairs I go with kitty in tow as she always gets on top of the bottom pedestal for her morning petting, then into the kitchen to feed her, get a cup of java, then down to the basement bathroom to get dressed as my everyday clothes are down there, then back upstairs to drink my coffee and do a little reading, then I'm off to do whatever it is I've got planned for the day.
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