… And at worst, actively making your bedroom less functional and more cumbersome to use. The arguments I hear in favor of it are completely asinine and I will address them one by one.
- It makes it more comfortable to sleep in.
I have absolutely no idea where that comes from. Do you all sleep like Dracula? My bedding is usually tussled about within minutes of me laying in bed. Blankets balled up for knee support, one leg sticking out for temperature venting. I couldn’t imagine sliding under the covers and laying perfectly supine like Vladimir Lenin.
- It doesn’t take much time, so you might as well do it.
I find any task not worth my time to be a waste, so unless it has a purpose, it is actively infuriating to do.
- It looks nice. And an unmade bed looks lazy
Given that this is an entirely subjective reason, I can’t exactly “disagree” with it. But if there was someone I trust enough to be in my bedroom, I’m not going to waste my time convincing you that I do not, in fact, sleep in my bed.
Not to mention that if you want to nap or even sit on the end of the bed, you have to make it again. It is an incredibly unstable artwork, making me avoid using my bed unless I really need to.
If you make your bed, I have no judgment for you. Just like people who fold designs into the ends of their toilet paper. I couldn’t imagine caring about something like that, but it literally doesn’t affect me at all, so go nuts.
But I think we should be honest and call it what it is: some kind of shameful cleaning ritual that is probably some vestigial military chore, and I want nothing to do with it.
Same argument could be made for sweeping/vacuuming the floor or combing your hair. It will just get messy again.
For me making the bed makes things a little nicer and gets me rolling on doing other tasks. First accomplishment of the day and it takes 10 seconds.
Also and maybe more importantly, it will keep dust and spiders and other insects off the sheets I lay on/in. If you’ve ever got dressed or folded laundry in a sunny room yoh will see how much dust everyday moving around generates. Those dust particles are skin cells (human and animal), bits of fabric, hair, and plastic microparticles since so many clothes are made from plastic.
This is not true, all of those things have drawbacks that not making the bed do not. Maybe never washing your bed clothes, sure, but just not making it is not the same as never cleaning your floors, or grooming your hair/body. If you don’t clean the floors, they get sticky, attract pests, build up bacteria, etc. If you don’t comb your hair it will begin to knot up, and cause scalp problems, if you don’t do the dishes they will get covered in bacteria, and mold, and attract pests. Not making your bed doesn’t have these types of consequences.
I don’t think that it’s useless because it will just get “messed up” again. I just feel the “messed up” state is equivalent or even better than the “clean” state.
Folded clothes, which I’ve heard some people mention in the comments, are better than unfolded clothes for two simple reasons: They take up less space, and they can be retrieved easily. Ive lived out of laundry baskets for a time and it is inarguably less efficient and consumes more space.
I like sleeping with spiders tyvm