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By: Sam
Updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Source: http://artofmanliness.com/
Love the info–I’m regularly made fun of at college for my obsessive bed-making. My only suggestion is that you not make it literally the second you get up. Let it air out a bit! It’s all warm when you get out of bed–pull the covers back when you get out of bed–not all the way of course–and brush your teeth, get dressed, etc. THEN come back and make it up. I try not to make it while it’s still warm. Seems wrong, somehow.
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@lemichelcaron Moi j'utilise la technique de faire le lit pendant que je suis encore dedans. Check la dernière section: http://bit.ly/3Hv59a
A primer in making of a bed. Something I learned early in life, but regretably don't follow through enough. (ha ha) http://bit.ly/64MkYo
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I don’t see why would anyone want to make beds like this OUTSIDE the Army. When I marched out as a private I was glad to leave the bed nonsense behind, we once had to re-make them 6 or 7 times one afternoon.
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Thats how I remember being told how to make a bed! and once you learn how, you never foget. I also enjoyed tring to get in it, but once there, I went to sleep quickly. Now I have a waterbed, and can not make that tight.
Instructions somewhat superfluous in these days of continental quilts, I feel.
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Make your bed everyday! It is a sign of keeping your life clean and uncluttered ☺ http://bit.ly/2yaA1R
Screw the quarter-bouncing crap. The payoff is at the bottom: Make your bed while still in it: http://bit.ly/2yaA1R #LazyFTW
@Ewan: genius idea! But why not just leave the bed alone, and sleep on the floor instead? voila – no more time wasted making your bed.
Nurses are also known to knot the corners of the sheets together under the mattress (top right to top left, bottom right to bottom left.) This trick is helpful if you’re raising and lowering the head of the bed frequently, and is especially helpful if you are using a foam eggcrate mattress topper.
When it comes to dust ruffles, don’t purchase the kinds that have a sheet of fabric
the full width and length of the box spring. It is horrible to tuck sheets and blankets
when there is this kind of dust ruffle. It is better to purchase the kind that are edged by elastic or upholster the box spring directly.
Having to maintain a nice tight bed is most easily accomplished by not sleeping in the bed itself, but rather on top of it with just your folded blanket to keep you warm. It takes a little getting used to but after two and a half years i don’t mind anymore. Plus it makes sleeping under the covers that much better when you actually get to enjoy it.
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God, I remember when I was a lad in (elementary!) military school having to make these things every day. And the colonel would pick your bed up and toss it on it’s side if that quarter did not bounce!
Oh, the good ol’ days.
Good order and discipline are important, and those are great reasons to make your bed. However, there is a legitimate purpose to bed-making that I’m surprised I seldom hear mentioned.
Making a nice tight rack helps keep out dust and vermin. That’s why I don’t think you should have skipped the dust cover.
I recently thought of this when we went to a time share and
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Wow this brings back memories. One thing not mentioned is speed, we had to make beds in under 2 minutes. One trick we used was to get a 3 ring binder to tuck the extra blanket in after we made hospital corners. After they were tucked, we got under the bed and pulled the covers tight from underneath.
The quarter trick is no longer used, but they now use a ruler and pull it down the bed. If
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Awesome article! This reminds me of Civil Air Patrol Encampment… The only thing you missed is how to ’smile’ your pillow.
~Sid
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I like a nicely made bed myself. Some of my favorite, soft sheets, though, have fitteds that the elastic isn’t a young as it once was having worn out through age and many, many hot water washings. To tighten the fitteds, I’ve used an old pair of suspenders to latch all four corners tightly under the mattress. Works a treat.
Dad was a Marine Corps Sargent, so this method is how I learned to make a bed. I thought everyone made their bed this way until I got to college and my roommates were in awe of how tight the sheets looked (one of them did take out a quarter and it did bounce), thanks Pop!
It was that was for us all the way through our “A” school too in the Corps. We used to use shirt stays to hold the sheets tautly against the rack springs. Gave a pretty good bounce too. To this day my wife doesn’t like it when I make the bed because I tuck the sheets in too tightly.
Buy two packs of shirt garters and attach them to each so of the bed connecting underneath. Then you just tighten them up and enjoy a bed that won’t come undone.
Use an iron to get the military looking sheets, after you fold down your top sheet over the blanket – go ahead and iron it so it looks better. After you have everything picture perfect, grab a can of starch and spray the
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No single guy likes to make is bed. Still, here's How to Make a Bed You Can Bounce a Quarter Off Of. Pretty cool! http://trunc.it/3hlak
I remember how difficult it was in army training trying to make the bed, I resorted in the end to making the bed as best as i could then ironing it lol, it seemed to work until one of the others got boot polish all over his sheets and tried to hide it, corporal found it and beasted us with 100 pressups, nob head.
Attention to detail can be the difference between success and failure. How do you develop it in your team? http://ow.ly/DZEh
Great post. I always remember my grandmother making the bed so tightly you could barely move once you got in. It’s nice to finally know the “trade secrets.”
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I totally agree with the statement:
“… that end is developing a soldier’s discipline and attention to even the smallest details. Plus, it ensures that order is maintained in the barracks, which allows the enlisted man to concentrate on more important matters.”
But, I think a real man should choose what kind of tasks to pay attention to and to “eliminate”
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Love the info–I’m regularly made fun of at college for my obsessive bed-making. My only suggestion is that you not make it literally the second you get up. Let it air out a bit! It’s all warm when you get out of bed–pull the covers back when you get out of bed–not all the way of course–and brush your teeth, get dressed, etc. THEN come back and make it up. I try not ... See all content
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