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The Soullful Mr T
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Username: Howardt
Post Number: 2102
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 8:35 pm: | 
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I am very helpful around the house, nay, I do virtually everything around the house. Yet, I do not like to make the bed. I will not make the bed. Not sure why, I just don't like to make the bed. Yes, it's nicer to get into a made bed. Yes, it's a small task. I just don't like to do it.
Also, I find it impossible to fold a fitted sheet. I fold everything else but I can't seem to fold a fitted sheet. Always turns into a messy ball of fabric.
And, I won't make the bed.
Is this so terrible? |
Paper Bag Bandit
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Username: Glock17
Post Number: 1213
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 8:41 pm: |
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NOPE. I'd ratherthrow the sheets on the floor and sleep there than make the bed. (and ive done it too!)
Gotta' love being a teenager...you can sleep anywhere |
Popo
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Username: Popo
Post Number: 133
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 8:47 pm: |
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Yes, it is terrible. You're being passive-agressive.
Make the bed. It will transform your life. |
Shanabana
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Username: Shanabana
Post Number: 603
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 9:14 pm: |
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How DOES one fold one of those fitted sheets? I hate that my folding efforts end up like a big rolled hand muff!
It's summer, just throw a sheet over the bed and be done with it. (I admit, my bed get's made about 50% of the time...or maybe 30%, even in the summer). |
red
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Username: Redy67
Post Number: 5939
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 9:30 pm: |
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My mom made it look like the easiest thing in the world...I for the life of me can't fold a fitted sheet. |
Jersey_Boy
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Username: Jersey_boy
Post Number: 1159
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 9:39 pm: |
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How to fold a fitted sheet:
http://www.target.com.au/abouttarget/homewares/fittedsheet.htm
Does not include how to like it.
J.B. |
Pippi
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Username: Pippi
Post Number: 2440
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 9:47 pm: |
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J.B - I was about to try to describe how to fold a fitted sheet, but the link does a much better job.
Once you do it that way, it's a cinch. I have several friends who tell me to this day they know how to fold a fitted sheet because of me.
FWIW, Notehead refuses to make the bed too. Since it's important to me, I suck it up and do it every morning.
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Paper Bag Bandit
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Username: Glock17
Post Number: 1216
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 9:52 pm: |
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that's bullS#%t how do you know if its inside out or not?!?!! IT LOOKS THE SAME BOTH WAYS!!! |
Jersey_Boy
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Username: Jersey_boy
Post Number: 1161
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 9:52 pm: |
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When the baby comes, no one will do it.
And that will be fine.
J.B. |
Brett
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Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2493
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 9:58 pm: |
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The Soullful Mr T, you are wrong!!!!
The best way to start the day is to do something well. Making the bed is one for those things. Wake up pee, have a small glass of OJ and then make the bed. It’s a great way to start the day, and when the work day is kicking your butt, and the kids are going nuts. Remember that you are going to relax in a well made bed.
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sportsnut
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Username: Sportsnut
Post Number: 2473
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 10:04 pm: |
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At last I know I'm not alone in not being able to fold those damn fitted sheets. I used to think it was a genetic defect...but now I know I'm not alone and its a great feeling. |
MeAndTheBoys
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Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 4071
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 10:20 pm: |
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I learned the folding the fitted sheet trick many years ago from Martha. Find I don't dread the job as much since I learned the secret. |
Hoops
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Username: Hoops
Post Number: 1540
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 10:37 pm: |
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notehead will be making the bed plenty after the baby comes. |
Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 9953
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 11:10 pm: |
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When Chuck Norris makes a bed, he starts from scratch: a tree and a row of cotton plants. |
Bajou
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Username: Bajou
Post Number: 728
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 11:17 pm: |
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I make my bed every day...otherwise all three dogs sleep on my sheets all day and that is gross. I make my bed and throw the dog throw over it..Yes I have a dog throw. |
Virtual It Girl
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Username: Shh
Post Number: 4661
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, June 23, 2006 - 12:38 am: |
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I do that trick but mine don't look so neat. Who folds near a table? it's the only time I get to watch tv. Sometimes I fold as it comes out of the dryer.
I try to make my bed but sometimes I don't. Then I feel like a slob. It's my mother's voice inside my head making me feel guilty!
If you WANT to make the bed but can't do it for whatever reason, make it easier. Use a bedspread that goes over your pillows, down to the floor. No one will judge you if there are a few lumps...socks, messy sheets, whatever! |
Cynicalgirl
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Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 2891
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 23, 2006 - 6:35 am: |
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You could go the duvet route, where the duvet's cover is sheet material. Much easier to just kinda throw that thing over the bed. That's what my kid does. Avoids tucking corners and all the rest of it. |
Bailey
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Username: Baileymac
Post Number: 326
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Friday, June 23, 2006 - 7:04 am: |
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To avoid folding the fitted sheet on from our king-sized mattress, I'd rather remove it, launder it, and put it back on the bed!
Also, I'm always the first out of bed, and downstairs having coffee before Mrs Bailey gets up, so she has to make the bed.
I planned that years ago.. I hate to make the bed too.
:-)
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thegoodsgt
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Username: Thegoodsgt
Post Number: 1002
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Friday, June 23, 2006 - 7:29 am: |
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Yes, you must make the bed. It is not optional. An unmade bed is sloppy. It is a very small task that takes less than 30 seconds. Just do it. |
Paper Bag Bandit
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Username: Glock17
Post Number: 1221
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Friday, June 23, 2006 - 8:33 am: |
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No one HAS to do anything. Everything is a choice. |
Boozehound
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Username: Mem
Post Number: 6373
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, June 23, 2006 - 9:06 am: |
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What is a fitted sheet? I never fold my three sheets. It's too windy.
Hic-cup. |
Pippi
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Username: Pippi
Post Number: 2448
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 23, 2006 - 9:54 am: |
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"When the baby comes, no one will do it."
J.B - you're right
But I will let it go. when it really starts to irk me, I know if I ask Notehead, he'll do it for me. But I'd rather have an unmade bed and an extra diaper changed than the other way around, so I'll barter wisely!
if I leave early in the morning, before Notehead gets out of bed, I make it when I get home, because it HAS to be made before I get into it at night!
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IShep
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Username: Twinsmom
Post Number: 178
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 23, 2006 - 10:04 am: |
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I make all the beds (4 of them as my kids are still little) before my coffee every morning. That rule makes me get it done very quickly. As kids, my brother and I had to make our beds, no ifs ands or buts.
If the bed is made the room looks picked up. If the bed isn't made, no matter how clean the room is, it looks messy.
Also, I could never go to bed if it were unmade. I did this even when my twins were infants. It really doesn't take that much time.
But...of course, to each his own. Regarding fitted sheets... I loathe folding them, and I can definitely tolerate the big ball of fabric that it looks like when I'm done "folding" it. |
LilLB
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Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1850
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, June 23, 2006 - 10:06 am: |
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I have to admit that it is such a great feeling to settle in at night to a bed that has been made. However, I very rarely make the the bed. I just can't be bothered... |
combustion
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Username: Spontaneous
Post Number: 141
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Friday, June 23, 2006 - 10:17 am: |
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Hubby and I have different work schedules, so we're rarely up at the same time. Can't make the bed if someone's still sleeping in it. Besides, even if it's empty, I don't really make the bed, I just tidy it a little. As far as folding the fitted sheet, I've never had a problem with that.
For some reason I cannot stand vacuuming. Sweeping is fine. Mopping is fine. I don't even mind (on occasion) getting down on my hands and knees and scrubbing the floor by hand. But vacuuming? I hate it. |
Bajou
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Username: Bajou
Post Number: 748
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Friday, June 23, 2006 - 5:07 pm: |
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I just realized that the name if this thread keeps making me think of Dr. Seuss. |
red
Citizen
Username: Redy67
Post Number: 5962
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 23, 2006 - 7:39 pm: |
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Me too!! I was just thinking I will not eat green eggs and ham....da*n I am. I can't stop thinking of green eggs and ham. |
Paper Bag Bandit
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Username: Glock17
Post Number: 1246
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Friday, June 23, 2006 - 9:57 pm: |
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Yeah thats the first thing i thought of and then i went to post and totally forgot gotta love ADD |
knak
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Username: Knak
Post Number: 170
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2006 - 12:34 am: |
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I don't mind somewhat lumpy sheets in the closet but an unmade bed has too strong an association with illness/ injury or those not-quite up to the world sick days - so it's a mental health practice to smooth out the sheet & quilt and pile up the pillows. I'm the one about 90% of the time, not just because I'm usually the second one up.
Even if the rest of the house is total chaos, it's a quick and satisfying "fix" and I might sneak in a little reading retreat and enjoy the calm feeling of sitting on top of a neat bed with fluffed pillows. |
S.L.K. 2.0
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Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 1789
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2006 - 8:27 pm: |
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I don't mind making beds and I actually don't feel life is complete unless they are made. Seeing an unmade bed in the afternoon bugs me...
What I can't stand is putting a duvet cover back on the main blanket after a wash...I grow very impatient...
-SLK |
Lydia
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Username: Lydial
Post Number: 2007
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2006 - 8:40 pm: |
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SLK -
Gotta agree with you about unmade beds - I made a "rule" that last one up has to make the bed - my husband makes the bed so horribly, I think it's on purpose. I gave up several years ago and I just make the bed daily. I actually like the routine.
It takes a few minutes to shake out the sheets and tuck everything in, and it feels so good to collapse into a "made" bed at the end of the day.
I gave up on duvet covers and I just wash the whole thing when the seasons change. I still can't fold a fitted sheet (I tried today following the instructions here) I figure it's OK to have fitted-sheets-balls in my linen closet unless I'm trying to sell the house and strangers are looking in.
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