bed making poll

[mamaKristin]

So, when you make a bed, do you put the top sheet:

a) "right side up", as in facing the ceiling
b) "right side down", as in, you climb between the "right sides" of the sheets

or something else.

[Annainprogress]

I don't use a top sheet unless it's too hot for even a summer duvet, which hasn't happened often in the past 6 years. I just have bottom sheet then duvet. in the days when I did used to use a top sheet, I just put it on however

[inesperada]

I do it right side up even though I know right side down is technically proper.

[cornflower]

I do it right side up for solid sheets and with patterned sheets I do it sometimes up, sometimes down. Mostly, I only do it down for guests so that it looks nice when I turn down the bed.

[Niphredil]

:haha :haha :haha

That's all I have to say about making beds. :shifty

[hey mommy]

I make it with the 'right side' facing up. But for me, making a bad is just throwing blankets on it right before I go to sleep. I haven't made my bed in a year. :dance :shifty


Oh, X would do 'right side' down because when you pull it up and fold it over the blankets/pillows the 'proper' way, then it would look good. But I refuse to do that.

[Mommainrwanda]

Right side down :tu I hardly ever turn the bed down, but it has been ingrained in me from childhood to have it ready to turn down if you ever want your bed to look especially nice before going to bed. And, really, sometimes I DO turn it down just before brushing my teeth so I can come back to a fresh looking bed. It is sometimes the neatest part of my day. :heart

I pretty sure I just won the "mostly likely to sound like an 80 year old woman" award :shifty

[cindergretta]

I was raised "right side down" to look proper when folded over.

I now make it right side up as we don't use it as a sheet, but as a topper. When the kids get crumbs on it and spill stuff on it, we take it off and the fitted sheet under it is still clean. Saves on how often I have to wash sheets... :shifty

[MaybeGracie]

Right side down, so that it's the correct way when I fold the top edge over.

[FindingMyWay]

No top sheet here.
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[mummy2boys]

Right side down...that way when you fold it over the blankets/doona etc the pattern is up.

My mum made my bed when I was in hospital (:heart love my mum) and she did it the other way :jawdrop. I changed it when she wasn't looking when I got home :hiding OCD much???

[melissa5317]

Right side down, so it folds down all pretty-like.

I have a fit when I find a sheet right side up and have to fix it. :giggle

[mummy2boys]

Right side down, so it folds down all pretty-like.

I have a fit when I find a sheet right side up and have to fix it. :giggle


I have FINALLY met my twin :lol:lol

[Mother of Sons]

Right side up. It's weird to have a pattern facing down. I don't like the looks of a folded over top so I don't do that. i hate top sheets though and rarely use them. Growing up my mom always did the pattern down method. It's like wearing an inside out shirt to me.

[Meli]

Sheets have a right side?? :jawdrop

:haha :haha :haha

That's all I have to say about making beds. :shifty

This.

[Weezie]

Um,:hunh:hunh is all I can say.

My sheet is on my bed, covered by the blanket, which is covered by the cat and laundry. That's what it's supposed to be, right?:shifty

[Llee]

Um,:hunh:hunh is all I can say.

My sheet is on my bed, covered by the blanket, which is covered by the cat and laundry. That's what it's supposed to be, right?:shifty

As long as books are on there, and maybe an extra blanket so I can burrito myself, :shifty I'm all right with that.

[MomtoJGJ]

My mom did right side down... I never figured out why until I was an adult and she told me "you sleep between the right sides of the sheets"

I do right side up because that just makes sense.... but I also don't fold over the blankets/sheets. I also only truly make it up when I'm making it up for the first time after washing sheets. Otherwise it's pretty much pull them up to throw laundry on it to sort.

[MercyInDisguise]

Right side down. :yes It's a big point of contention between me and dh. :shifty

[Domina]

I voted right side down, but...well...I make my bed about once a year. :shifty

For the first 6 years of our marriage, DH was 3rd shift and went to bed just as I was getting up for the day, so there was never any point. Now I'm just totally out of the habit.

[MercyInDisguise]

Just to clarify, I don't make the bed on a regular basis, but this is how I put the bed together when I put the sheets on after washing them. ;)

[twoplustwo]

Right side up. I don't fold the top over on any beds. Even the guest bed where there are decorative pillows goes right side up & with no fold down (no other beds have decorative pillows. We used to prior to kids, but that was a step that had to go for my sanity.)

[BelovedDaughter]

On the rare occasion that the bed actually gets made, the sheets go right side up. I never fold the top sheet over. I just put the fitted sheet on, then pillows, then flat/top sheet, then comforter.

[TenderLovingWillow]

Right side up. I don't appreciate seeing the right side while sleeping as much as I do while making the bed.. :shifty

[Little Forest]

Right side down with about a foot at the top folded down, no food in bedrooms, beds tidied every morning and bedlinens get changed once a week.
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[JustMandy]

:haha :haha :haha

That's all I have to say about making beds. :shifty

This. I actually never knew that people made beds with the top sheet down. It makes sense. If I ever decide to make a bad, I might do that.

[HadassahSukkot]

Other:

All of our blankets go inside of a case (like a giant pillow case, but for the blankets) so, I only have to fold a blanket down and even it out in the mornings, or decide to shake them out and lay them flat. I prefer folding them down, so I've started picking double-sided blankets. Example of what I mean is available here (http://www.bonprix.de/kategorie/wohnen-schlafen-bettwaesche/).
I've gotten where I only use a sheet during the EXTREMELY hot weather because I cannot sleep without a blanket.

[LadybugSam]

it depends on my mood. Usually right side down but sometimes i couldn't care less about the sheet and do it whichever way it falls :giggle

[crunchymum]

Right side down! Unless for some crazy reason I'm not planning on folding down the sheets/blanket at the top... Then I would do right side up.

I have white sheets now, though, so it doesn't matter. :shrug

[Niphredil]

This. I actually never knew that people made beds with the top sheet down. It makes sense. If I ever decide to make a bad, I might do that.

I'm all like... top sheet? :scratch I just buy the one fitted, forget the sets. Then again our queen sized bed has two king comforters... so what do I know. :lol

[BearyBlessed]

We don't use a top sheet. :shifty
We have a king and twin together. They each have a bottom sheet and each person has their own blanket. We started that when Aji was itty bitty so that he wouldn't get smothered in our blankets.

If I was to ever make a bed- like our guest bed for my mom to visit, I would make it with the right side up. I don't care for the look of the top edge turned down.

[knitlove]

our bed got made a lot more and I was happier sleeping in it when we dritched the top sheet

[crunchymum]

But how do you keep your comforters cleeeean? Ours get so grungy when we don't have a top sheet! Maybe we should start taking showers at night instead of the morning? :scratch

[Llee]

We have a black comforter. :shifty No issues that I can *see*.

[Pragmatist]

My mom taught me to do right side down, but I'm a rebel so I do right side up.

[Earthylady]

I, honestly, have never heard of making it with the patterned side facing you while in bed. This is new to me!

[backtobasicsmum]

Top sheets always go right side down. So when you are sleeping, both the fitted and flat sheet are right sides together for you to sleep on. I do that even when my sheets have no pattern. :shifty And yes, I make my bed everyday too. :giggle

[knitlove]

But how do you keep your comforters cleeeean? Ours get so grungy when we don't have a top sheet! Maybe we should start taking showers at night instead of the morning? :scratch
I wash it :shifty


we have a duvet and I wash the over as often as I do the bottom sheet. I also wash he duvet every three times or so.

[Niphredil]

Yeah, just wash it once a week, week and a half. :shrug3 Fresh, warm, comfy clean blanket, droooool.

[RosalieMarie]

Right side down. But the only time I ever make it is when I change the sheets. Which probably isn't often enough. :shifty Jake hates the top sheet. I neeeeeeed it. So half the bed has top sheet, the other doesn't, and we each have our own comforters. :giggle

[november]

Right side up. I've never seen a bed made with the top sheet facing down!

[Meli]

even when my sheets have no pattern.

:idea I had literally, up until you said that, wondered how you can tell which is the "right" and the "wrong" side of our sheets. I never thought about sheets with patterns!

IF the sheets have a pattern, and IF I make the bed, I do right side down, so when you fold it back across the blanket, you see the pattern on top.

[lucie]

Yeah, I read most of this thread scratching my head, wondering what it all means, "right side up"??? :lol I'm still not quite sure I get it... I don't think I've ever even seen a sheet with patterns that would have a right and wrong side :lol


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[melissa5317]

Right side down! Unless for some crazy reason I'm not planning on folding down the sheets/blanket at the top... Then I would do right side up.

I have white sheets now, though, so it doesn't matter. :shrug

It always matters.

Always.

:lol

[HadassahSukkot]

But how do you keep your comforters cleeeean? Ours get so grungy when we don't have a top sheet! Maybe we should start taking showers at night instead of the morning? :scratch
Not sure if you're asking me or not? :shifty They come off like a pillowcase. It's just like regular sheets, but around a blanket instead of under only. We throw them in the wash, take them out and dry. Throw blankets in next, wash on 95°C and dry in the dryer too. 2 loads done in 3 hours and bedsheets all over again. :shrug3

[mommylove]

These threads about bedmaking always crack me up; I think about the Seinfeld episode tuck or no tuck. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl3HcIXvIo0)

I am sooo thankful that DH & I agree on the only right way to make a bed. :giggle

[Meli]

Yeah, I read most of this thread scratching my head, wondering what it all means, "right side up"??? :lol I'm still not quite sure I get it... I don't think I've ever even seen a sheet with patterns that would have a right and wrong side :lol


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My pattern ones are like regular fabric used for any other purpose - the print is on one side, and you can see it on the other side, but it isn't as clear.

[lucie]

My pattern ones are like regular fabric used for any other purpose - the print is on one side, and you can see it on the other side, but it isn't as clear.

Oh okay, I get it now. :Giggle We've always just bought white, so I probably kind of ignored those in the stores :lol


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[mummy2boys]

These threads about bedmaking always crack me up; I think about the Seinfeld episode tuck or no tuck. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl3HcIXvIo0)

I am sooo thankful that DH & I agree on the only right way to make a bed. :giggle

So you don't want to know that mine are made with hospital corners as well? Every day? :hiding

[Tandem mama]

I have solved this problem with one easy answer. I don't make the bed. I put a clean fitted sheet on and throw a bunch of blankets on it and we figure it whose is whose when we go to bed. Piles of blankets ;) no bed making :)

[amydawn]

Depends on the sheet. We have nice cozy fleece ones for the winter and I always do right side down with those so the coziness is next to us. For cotton sheets, I don't care which way they are.

[twoplustwo]

I would like to disagree this only matters on pattern sheets. Even my solid sheets have a ?hem? ?trim? - that determines which way is up or down. But since I am a right side upper - maybe that doesn't matter as much when you are a folder-downer.

[TraceMama]

European style duvet covers used here, so no need for a top sheet ;) They sell quite a few at Ikea and I've sewn them myself using 2 otherwise unnecessary top sheets that came in a set :giggle

When I *do* use a sheet, it goes right side down so it folds over pretty :)

[mommylove]

So you don't want to know that mine are made with hospital corners as well? Every day? :hiding

Why every day? Do they come untucked at night?

I do hospital corners, too, but they stay tucked in until the next time I change the sheets.

[melissa5317]

I am sooo thankful that DH & I agree on the only right way to make a bed. :giggle

I'm just thankful that DH keeps his hands to himself and lets me take care of it! :lol

Not OCD. Not OCD at all...:no

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So you don't want to know that mine are made with hospital corners as well? Every day? :hiding

Hospital corners!! :rockon I think you (ETA - ah, and mommylove) might be the only other person I've spoken to, online or in RL, who knows and uses hospital corners. :heart:heart:heart I actually at one point started to think I just dreamed that they were called that because no one knew what I was on about!

I'm totally giving the wrong impresson of myself here; I actually only feel the need to make the bed absolutely perfectly when I'm changing the sheets. Otherwise it's a mess because bub sleeps in it during the day and it gets crawled on by children, so I don't bother. :lol But when I do make it, I MAKE it. :yes

[mummy2boys]

Hospital corners!! :rockon I think you (ETA - ah, and mommylove) might be the only other person I've spoken to, online or in RL, who knows and uses hospital corners. :heart:heart:heart I actually at one point started to think I just dreamed that they were called that because no one knew what I was on about!


Well thats 3 of us...and enough to start a revolution I think :P~:P~


I remake the whole bed from scratch each day as I love climbing in between tightly tucked sheets and covers. Yes I have OCD :lol

[Elibellamiah]

I always put the top sheet up (I only make the bed when I change the sheets though) I never knew people put the top sheet down. However, this total explains why the print is upside down across the top edge of my kid's Sesame Street sheets. That always would annoy me.

[mummy2boys]

I would like to disagree this only matters on pattern sheets. Even my solid sheets have a ?hem? ?trim? - that determines which way is up or down. But since I am a right side upper - maybe that doesn't matter as much when you are a folder-downer.


Yes all my sheets have a hem to indicate which side is up or down

[MarynMunchkins]

Right side down, and I can feel the difference when it's backwards. :shifty




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[peekaboomama]

I've never looked closely enough to know which is right side and wrong side... they're just solid colors.

[kwisie]

I'm a right-side-upper. But then, the only time the bed is "made" is when I occasionally yank everything up by the pillows.

The top sheet is a bone of contention between me and DH. He doesn't like one, but I need one. This was perfectly fine for the first seven or so years of marriage, but it has become an issue again. If he's in bed by himself, he kicks the top sheet down to the end of the bed, making a yucky wad that I then have to pull up and straighten out before I can sleep. It's very annoying. :snooty

[MariekeSings]

I do it right side down, mainly because it's the softer side of our sheets :shifty but partly because it is the "correct" way and I'm slightly OCD. DH couldn't care less however (he wold be happy without a top sheet at all).

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The top sheet is a bone of contention between me and DH. He doesn't like one, but I need one. This was perfectly fine for the first seven or so years of marriage, but it has become an issue again. If he's in bed by himself, he kicks the top sheet down to the end of the bed, making a yucky wad that I then have to pull up and straighten out before I can sleep. It's very annoying. :snooty

I'm usually the first one in bed, and DH is always complaining about how high up I've pulled the top sheet. :shifty

[ValiantJoy07]

My sheets are reversable :shifty