Comments on: Heading Out on Your Own — Day 7: How to Make a Bed

By: jceyes

jceyes — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:20:51 +0000

As a top-bunk child who never once made a bed until living at college, I think this article overlooks the single biggest benefit of a keeping the bed made:

It is very helpful, perhaps even essential, to the pursuit of having someone join you in that bed.

By: John

John — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:52:37 +0000

Luckily I knew this one. HEaded to BMQ soon so that is at least one think I already know. lol

By: RAK

RAK — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:44:48 +0000

Yeah, graphic 2 does make the bed out to be unusually long.

I agree with Wes. Toss a duvet on it.
– Sheet, check.
– Duvet, check.
Done.

By: stefn777

stefn777 — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:48:15 +0000

Two tips:
>I have heard that dust mites thrive if the bed is made soon after rising; so I pull off the top sheet/blanket and “fluff” them; then let it sit and air out while I get ready for the day. I then make my bed after breakfast.
> Being almost as tall than my bed is long, I make my hospital corners on the foot of the bed, rather than the side.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:52:38 +0000

Agree with the others. Flashback to my time at Basic Training. Still a great way to make a bed, but my wife hates it. Sheets are too tight.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:00:29 +0000

I love sleeping in a bed with tucked sheets, and my wife abhors it. You guessed the compromise – my side is tucked in, hers is not. Martha Stuart would no doubt highly disapprove.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:06:03 +0000

Don’t parents force you to make the bed, at least a couple times while growing up? To wash dishes? To clean up your room? How to vacuum? Wash yourself? Do laundry? IF this is the case, then parents have really taken a step back in the parenting department.

By: Sergey

Sergey — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:05:08 +0000

For an added touch, fold the pillow side of the blanket over twice maintaining a palm’s width in the fold for its entire length. Then put the pillows flush against the fold. We had to do this in bootcamp, and I gotta say, I always liked how it looked. It makes your rack look like fitted suit.

By: Jason Hull

Jason Hull — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:46:24 +0000

Augh! I’m having flashbacks to morning inspections from plebe year at West Point!

By: Mike B

Mike B — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:38:07 +0000

“and it feels really good to get into a made bed when you turn in each night.”

Going to have to disagree, like in a Seinfeld episode, I don’t like the tuck.
I need freedom, but it does look nicer I agree.