70% of Happy People Do This When They Wake Up.

I never ever make my bed, and I consider myself to be happy (also one of the nude sleepers). You're just going to mess it up again anyway, and those sheets you just sweated in all night need to breathe and dry out.

I definitely make my bed every morning with very few exceptions and it definitely affects how I start and end my day. AND I consider myself to be a pretty happy, optimistic person!

ever wonder why one responds to a blog, that isn't even current to the date, with hand lotion on, that sticks to the keyboard. Yah, me neither. My bed making goes waaaay back to my teens, and my mom who was a stickler for neatness, and having her rules followed. One day she told me to make my bed before going to school. I was a little tardy, and bed making didn't happen. When I got home from school, I knew I was in trouble, but it was my room, essentially, that was in trouble. All drawers, closet contents were on the floor, and on top of that was my bedding, unmade of course, mattress, and box spring. I kind of figured out that was my 'thing' before supper. Once all back in place, and in those days, ironing wasn't an option. We wore cotton, and linen, and wool, and natural fibres, and we all know what they look like when just sat on, let alone under a pile of, well, bedding weight, plus a box spring. That was my last test of Mom's temperament, and my bed was made faithfully, from that day forward. Interestingly enough, despite many of you thinking of this as unsual, and perhaps almost corporal punishment, I continued to iron (until of late/steamers are great), and I fell in love with a) a made bed, and b) amazing bedding. I spent $ I didn't have to buy the best bedding I could afford, and it didn't look beautiful if it wasn't made. Now, comes linen, and linen looks best after ironing, and crumpling, but I still make it, it's just a little more dishevelled, as it should be, and No Karen, it's not ALL linen, because I have to FIND mine, and it's not easy into today's recycling market. People buy it and sell it one line, for LOTS of $. I have to depend on thrift store mistakes, and the very, very rare garage sale. However, I have stock for a millennium, so as long as I only use 1 piece, against some very beautiful, vintage cotton, it's good enough for me. So, military style, yes I'm guessing they make their beds (I have watched enough movies, and no, my coins don't bounce, but that is only because I have arthritic hands. Furthermore, I am not sure I am happier than most but I'm happy enough, and my husband will attest that if I awake at 5 a.m., before him, for a pee, I remake the bed around him, before getting back in. It's 24 years - he ignores it. And, if by chance I don't get back UP here during the day, and he's going to bed early, the bed MUST be made before he gets in, and that still drives him a wee bit nuts, but again, 24 years, he knows it's not an option. So, statistically, I'm going to say that people with OCD parents, may grow up to be slightly OCD themselves, and if bed making is included in that parameter, then so be it. And military people, of course, make their bed, and if that makes them more successful, than hooorah!!! So, now I am off to bed, on my side, still made, and my husband has yet to role over and mess his side up. And I wrote this in the dark, without moving my fingers. Maybe it DOES MAKE you more successful, as typically, lit keyboard, which I don't look at, wrong fingers make Goolash out of emails. good morning, good evening, good day Karen. I have a question about an art piece, I think may be a beautiful, bulb growing vase/container, but it would have to have denatured water in it, so as not to etch the glass. Do you think this will work. It was 50 cents, but it's a piece of art, and I probably could grow bulbs (or beets, as beets are very colorful, above and below the water), but a hyacinth may be spectacular, as I'm guessing more floral than said beet. Anyway, good night, and good morning. It's past 12, here.