You are going to love me today!! I am giving you all permission to NOT make your bed today!
Seriously, I am!! I even have a good reason for you to NOT make your bed.
I
know this is contrary to everything we were taught as children. At least if
you lived in my house the bed had to be made before any fun for the day
was going to happen.
Everything I have ever read on how to keep a tidy home has told me that one of the things to do is…. “Make your bed everyday!”
Not only is it on the chart, but is almost always #1!
So how in the world can I give you permission to not make your bed? Keep reading…..
Author Cheryl Mendelson said the following:
"Each
day when you arise, air the bed. Open the windows, if possible; throw
the bedcovers back over the foot of the bed. (If the bedding will
otherwise drag on the floor, stand a chair at the foot of the bed to
support it.) Let the bed stand this way, unmade, while you shower and
eat breakfast. The bed should air for at least an hour if you are going
to work, or even longer if you are staying home. This helps immensely
toward keeping the bed feeling and smelling fresh until you next change
the sheets."
Now here is the why you are getting permission to not make your bed!
"While
you are sleeping, you breathe about two pounds of moisture, along with
breath odors and flocks of microorganisms, into the air, your pillow and
your bedding. You also perspire, perhaps a cup's worth, and exude skin
oils and body smells. And you use up the room's oxygen and replace it
with exhaled carbon dioxide. When there are two or more people in the
bed or the room, these effects are multiplied. All this explains why, if
you sleep with closed windows, the room has a characteristic stale
morning smell (although you might not perceive it until you leave for a
few minutes and then return.) Unless you leave the bedcovers pulled down
and the windows open for an hour or two, the moisture you have left in
the bed either does not evaporate or evaporates very slowly, which makes
for an environment in pillows and mattress in which dust mites, molds,
and other microbial life have more of an opportunity to multiply.
Opening the windows lets in new air to dilute the pollutants (microbial
and particulate), carry them off, and bring in fresh supplies of
oxygen."
Who knew?
I don't know about you, but after reading that, I am a believer in NOT making my bed everyday!
Unmade
beds really don’t look that bad, trust me, I do it almost everyday. Let
me show you my unmade bed right after getting up, and then look at the
after, still not totally made up, and it is airing out nicely and I even
gave it a spritz of linen spray….
(Remember both images below show an unmade bed, the one on the right is how it looks while airing out and the one on the left is how it looks when we get up. The one on the right is neat and tidy, but still allows air to get to the bedding.)
See it is not so bad!
My bed all made up for the rest of the day!!
I like what Erma Bombeck said……..
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Here is one more little quote that I will leave you with…
Now go un-make your bed and let it air out!!!
