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

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] 42 points 5 months ago (2 children)

When I got sober, the first thing my sponsor told me to do every day was to make my bed. 15 years later, I still make my bed and all else follows.

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

My tennis coach called it a ritual. Something you do to clear your mind right before an important thing. Sounds like AA helped make it your bed. And the important thing is your life 💜

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago
[–] Lost_My_Mind 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

That is wild. Of the many things I don't understand in life, this certainly is the newest one.

Congrats on sobriety!

[–] bitwaba 3 points 5 months ago

It's replacing one habit with another. That's why you'll never find a denser concentration of cigarette smokers and coffee drinkers than at an AA meeting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Maybe it is the ability to instantly have a sense of life structure where there isn’t one? Simplicity?

[–] Delphia 2 points 5 months ago

Its apparently a good thing for people suffering from depression too. You get up and make the bed immediately. Not only does it discourage you from crawling back into it and laying there all day, but you started the day with 1 productive act. If you follow that with showering, brushing your teeth and getting dressed thats 4 productive things in a row first thing in the morning.