the bed making poll is such a funny way to discover that this is in fact my mundane hill that i will violently die on
here is my bed making propaganda:
- especially if you have a small bedroom it is one action that will immediately make your room look 3x as tidy with comparatively little effort. you can have shit all over your desk, bedside table, etc but as soon as you pull your sheets up and put your pillows back in the right place you will successfully trick your brain into thinking you have a moderately tidy room
- getting into a made bed just feels nice. especially if you’ve just showered. doubly so if you’ve just put a ton of lotion on (and shaved your legs if that’s something you do)
- if you are somebody who struggles with getting/staying out of bed during the day it can help delineate “bed time” and “awake time” because it makes your bed “off limits” in a way (but there’s also nothing actually stopping you getting back in bed if you really want/need to; it’s primarily a psychological trick)
- on that note i also find it’s a nice little reset – if you leave the house and come back to the bed the exact same way it was when you were tired, depressed, demotivated etc. in the morning it can drag you back into that mindset whereas coming back to a made bed? you left yourself a little present! everything is tidy and fresh!
- finally and most importantly if you have a lot of stuffed animals you get to arrange them in a little tableau and craft elaborate narratives about who’s sitting with who and why
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#on the object level‚ this largely does not apply to me #because my bedroom is *so* small that I have a loft bed #so it’s not super visible how well-made it is when you’re not in it #(also I bring one of my blankets down to my computer couch during the day) #((it’s cozy and I can keep the heat turned down lower in the winter)) #(but one could have a dedicated couch blanket: Mom does) #on the meta level‚ I wholeheartedly agree that having Neatly Kept Surfaces in view is *extremely* psychologically important #I am always surprised just how much better I feel after vacuuming‚ or wiping down the kitchen counter #and this post has inspired me to pick up the ground floor #–(the groceries have finished their quarantine and now need to be filed away)– #and set Rosie the Robovac loose on it #domesticity #tag rambles #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what
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