Don't usually post from work but had to for this one. Bottom line, I 'straighten' my bed each morning. DH kicks out tucked in corners every day so don't bother with doing a full 'make' of the bed. And yes, a mattress pad as it was required on our last mattress purchase for warranty purposes.
But the reason I had to respond to this post...Like many of you, yes, I was required to make my bed each morning before leaving for school. Reason per mom was 'if the house catches fire, I don't want to be embarrassed in front of the firemen with messy bedrooms'. So...get the directive one morning 'don't make your bed, I'm stripping them today'. No argument from me. (do you see where this is going?) Get a call later in the day at school that my mother was coming to pick me up early from school because the house had caught fire! Was only room and contents downstairs in the family room but still lots of smoke damage throughout the rest of the house.
We teased mom mercilessly about this until the day she died.