Subject: A good reason for not making your bed!
Posted by: lesley153
Date: Jan 27 10
Whoopee!
Dust mites like to be warm and moist, but leaving your bed unmade allows it to cool down and dry off. I think we like that.
It isn't news - I had a disagreement about it ten years ago with my control-freak cleanliness-is-next-to-godliness cousin, who was trying to convince my son that terrible things would happen if he didn't make his bed within ten seconds of getting out of it, and she was not pleased - but I reckon it's worth repeating.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4181629.stm
Posted by: lesley153
Date: Jan 27 10
Whoopee!
Dust mites like to be warm and moist, but leaving your bed unmade allows it to cool down and dry off. I think we like that.
It isn't news - I had a disagreement about it ten years ago with my control-freak cleanliness-is-next-to-godliness cousin, who was trying to convince my son that terrible things would happen if he didn't make his bed within ten seconds of getting out of it, and she was not pleased - but I reckon it's worth repeating.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4181629.stm
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mummasan 
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Think you are right lesley. My mother told me years ago, pull all the covers back, let it air. So I do. All day. Well, almost. Reply #1. Jan 27 10, 7:35 AM |
supersal1
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I heard about that a while ago. It made me very happy. Reply #2. Jan 27 10, 7:46 AM |
lesley153
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Think your mother was right, Marie. How much basic wisdom and common sense have been lost in the race to make our homes as sterile, and streamlined, as a picture from Ideal Homes! Sally, it made me happy too. We're not too easily pleased, are we? Reply #3. Jan 27 10, 8:08 AM |
Juggernaut314
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I don't think the bed needs to be made unless you're having company over that could see it. Reply #4. Jan 27 10, 9:26 AM |
| supersal1
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Juggernaut, if you've got the sort of visitor who's likely to be in your bedroom, would they really care what sort of state the bed's in? Reply #5. Jan 27 10, 9:41 AM |
jolana
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How about - "I can´t make my bed because although I have to get up to go to work, my dogs, cats and the rat don´t." Would it please your cousin? Reply #6. Jan 27 10, 10:06 AM |
honeybee4
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I do make my bed as soon as I get out of it. It is just habit and I never go back to the bedroom after I get up so it would probably be forgotten altogether. Every house has dust mites no matter how clean you are. I wouldn't really bother me if I could just get out of the habit. Reply #7. Jan 27 10, 10:17 AM |
Cymruambyth
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Making beds is a relatively forgotten art for me. I figure why bother - I'm only get back into it in ten or so hours! Nice to know, however, that there is a sound scientific reason for my slothful ways. Now, can any one come up with a scientific reason for not washing dishes or clothes until one runs out of clean ones? Im on the three-day plan with dish-washing, and I do laundry once a month and iron only when I'm going to don the garment the minute the creases are out of it! The only excuse I have to offer is that I am conserving water. Reply #8. Jan 27 10, 5:13 PM |
| lesley153
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And it's not like we need to do nurses' corners any more either. It's a fitted bottom sheet, and we just smooth it. Pillows needed plumping and that's all they need now. I don't know anyone who still has a tucked-in flat sheet topped with blankets and an eiderdown. We sleep under a quilt (aka duvet). Hop into bed, pull the quilt up under our chin, sleep. I don't see why it should matter if we cover the bed when we've just got up or just before we get back in. Reply #9. Jan 27 10, 6:43 PM |
| jolana
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Is there a scientific reason why not to clean the windows? When I have done cleaning them, they are dirty in three days, so I could clean them twice a week. No. Nay. Never. They come to a certain level of dirtiness, and they can hold up like this for months. You can always pull down the blinds. Reply #10. Jan 27 10, 6:49 PM |
| Cymruambyth
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Lesley, those wretched hospital corners used to give me nightmares. As a youngster, I attended boarding school for a year (I was removed after a fracas over nightwear - I flatly refused to wear either a nightgown or pyjamas which seemed to violate some unwritten law of the school, so my parents removed me from such rigidity and I went to day school from that time on). The problem with hospital corners was that we had to make our beds every morning and Matron would inspect our handiwork. She would drop one of those cartwheel-sized pre-decimalization British pennies on the counterpane and if it didn't bounce, we had to strip the bed and redo it! She also had a thing about precise corners! Her name was Menzies but we called her Mengele (this was shortly after World War II ended), and she had all the charm of a razor blade. Come to think of it, Matron Menzies/Mengele is probably the reason I have an almost pathelogical aversion to making beds to this day. Reply #11. Jan 27 10, 9:48 PM |
| romeomikegolf
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Don't talk to me about hospital corners. I'm married to a nurse. Fitted sheets are one of the best things since sliced bread. One of those and a duvet and the bed's ready in seconds, apart from fighting with the duvet cover that is. Is it beyond man's ingenuity to design a duvet cover that's easy to put on? Reply #12. Jan 27 10, 11:31 PM |
blindcat78
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The reason that I don't make my bed is that might want to get back into it. Also my cat likes to burrow her way underneath the egg carte that's on top of my matteress. Reply #13. Jan 30 10, 9:57 AM |
| Deunan
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Why make the bed? I think a bed is so comfortable when it is messy. I do straighten up the bedding (when I remember). Now what was I about to go do...something about a bed...I just don't remember. About the only time I make the bed is after I change the sheets and it has aired for about 4 hours. Time to go play in FT. The bed can just wait...and wait...and wait...until bedtime. Reply #14. Jan 30 10, 10:21 AM |
7PinKy7
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Why don't you make the bed. Well as Jim Gaffigan would say "For the same reason I don't tie my shoes after I take them off, it doesn't make sense". Reply #15. Feb 10 10, 4:35 PM |
| lesley153
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Cym, I would imagine that every single boarder who came under the jurisdiction of Matron Mengele feels the same way. It never occurs to people like her that their behaviour is almost invariably counter-productive, and that the sight of a bouncing penny is enough to awaken thoughts of murder. When I told my grandmother that all I wore in bed was a watch, she was horrified. "What would you do if there was a fire in the middle of the night?" There are never good reasons for doing anything, it's always the prospect of disaster. Still, it made a change from must wear clean underwear in case you get hit by a bus. I don't know who you are, Jim Gaffigan, but I salute you for speaking incontrovertible good sense. Reply #16. Feb 10 10, 5:02 PM |
| supersal1
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I've always thought wearing clean underwear in case you are hit by a bus is pretty counterproductive. Reply #17. Feb 10 10, 5:10 PM |
MarchHare007
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So would that mean supersal that if one Didn't wear clean underwear - they wouldn't be run over? ;) Lesley my watch ticks too loudly to wear to bed. ;p I straighten my bottom sheet, fitted of course, and it's too jolly hot for any top cover. Just the ceiling fan covers me nicely! :D Reply #18. Feb 12 10, 8:14 AM |
| 7PinKy7
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lesley153 Jim Gaffigan is a stand up comedian. Anyway I don't think anyone will have clean underware after getting hit by a bus. Reply #19. Mar 02 10, 10:35 PM |
s-m-w
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Talking of dust mites, it is generally accepted that after 3 years use, approximately 25 % of the weight of a bed pillow is made up of mites and dead skin... Question... how old are your bed pillows? Sweet dreams! Reply #20. Mar 09 10, 2:50 PM |
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