If making the bed every morning seems like a difficult and tedious chore, weblog The Art of Manliness shares some tips on how to make your bed quickly and tightly using a few military tricks.
We've already shown you how to use hospital corners for a crisply-made bed, and that's one of the keys to this process. Hospital corners keep the sheets tight and unruffled, but The Art of Manliness shares a few other tricks to making your bed quickly (and keeping it that way:
Most people make their bed by walking around it and straightening things out as they go. All that shuffling just wastes time.
To make your bed quickly, use this trick I learned from a dorm mate I had in college: simply make your bed while you're still in it. When you wake up, just sit up in your bed and straighten everything out. It's actually easier to do this while sitting in your bed's center than standing on its side. Once you have everything nice and straight, fold the top of the sheet and blanket down and slide out from underneath. When you get out, tuck the sides of the sheet back underneath the mattress. Bada bing! Instantly made bed.
They also recommend actually safety pinning your hospital cornered-sheets to the matress, which keeps you from having to re-make the sheets every morning (though that may not be ideal on all sets of sheets). Hit the link to read more, and share your bed-making tips in the comments. Photo by Tara Hunt.
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