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Making your bed is a waste of time (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The only time I make my bed is when I change the sheets. That's once a week, and I only make it then because my mother instilled it in me.

Not making it everyday saves time but more importantly airs everything out and deprives bacteria of moisture. That, makes it less stinky and lets my bedding last longer.

I sleep hot, it doesn't matter what the ambient temperature is. Vermont in winter? Heating is off in my bedroom, and I have a leg out.

Edit: seems like this isn't unpopular. It was a random thought that popped in my head. Everyone I have explained this to thinks it's weird.

I understand the tidy thing, everything else in my bedroom is quite tidy, my life really, with the notable exception of my thought processes.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Some people have trouble finding the motivation to do much of anything. Making your bed is the (alleged) cure.

It's easy. It's a nothing burger of a task. But, you do it first thing, and you start your day off having completed a task.

The thought is that completing just one simple task is going to predispose you to a day of doing something more consistently than starting your day off doing nothing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think I was overlooking that. Actually, I know I was.

For me it isn't about not doing a task, it's a task that is counterproductive (to me).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Yeah, same. I don't do it. That's just the logic behind it as a "good habit," gets you in the habit of starting the day off with a W.