Arlo: I like getting up early!
Arlo: The house is quiet and peaceful!
Arlo: I'm fresh! My mind is clear - I can sit and think!
Arlo: And I don't have to make the bed!
Panel 1: AgreedPanel 2: AgreedPanel 3: For me it’s more like a quiet fog until the third cup of coffee.Panel 4: Who makes their bed? I mean it’s not like I’m giving tours. And I save time when it’s time to retire.
I never got the idea of making a bed either. I can see when you have visitors over (if they plan to peek inside your room) or if you’re showing your house to realtors or potential renters. Otherwise, for daily business, making a bed is pointless.
US Navy admiral and Navy SEAL William H. McRaven: Every morning in basic SEAL training, my instructors, who at the time were all Viet Nam veterans, would show up in my barracks room and the first thing they would inspect was your bed.
If you did it right, the corners would be square, the covers pulled tight, the pillow centered just under the headboard and the extra blanket folded neatly at the foot of the rack—rack—that’s Navy talk for bed.
It was a simple task—mundane at best. But every morning we were required to make our bed to perfection. It seemed a little ridiculous at the time, particularly in light of the fact that were aspiring to be real warriors, tough battle hardened SEALs—but the wisdom of this simple act has been proven to me many times over.
If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another.
By the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed. Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that little things in life matter.
If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
And, if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made—that you made—and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.
Daily bedmaking is an act of self-discipline, especially when there is no one around to check up on it. Self-disciplined people accomplish more and accomplish better.
We have satin sheets. (If you have arthritis, it makes it easier to turn over and move around at night.) As a result, by morning the bed is a bit if a rat’s nest. The sheets are slippery (that’s the whole point, after all) and they don’t stay in place like regular sheets do. So either I have to make it in the morning, or make it before we go to bed!
Read in some “experts article” that instead of making your bed you should actually turn the bedding halfway down, to “freshen” the sheets. I think way to many people are getting paid to write articles now that we have the Internet.
My lovely hubby makes the bed every morning. Plus he washes the sheets and puts them back on when they need it. He’s also taken over the cooking and dish washing, and helps with laundry and house cleaning. When he retired….I got to retire, too! We have a very sweet retirement! He’s in agreement. It was HIS idea!
Is it just me, or does Janis seem to be ‘distant’ from Arlo lately? (as in the past several months). Like Friday’s strip, in which she alluded that she wants NOTHING more than a hug from him, and he’s blatant that her sentiment is getting old, and maybe he DOES want something more than a hug. And then, in yesterday’s strip, the look on her face was far from ‘affectionate’… Maybe it’s just me, but there seemed to be more affection and hanky-panky a couple of years ago than recently. More of a cold shoulder from her than anything else…
Hubby keeps pulling the covers up under his chin until his (our!) feet stick out. If I don’t want to wear the bedspread as a boa, one of us had better tidy things up.
Why do people bothering “making the bed”, anyway?— if not in the military or a residential school or something? I’m not a slob in general terms, but I never really have understood the making the bed thing. You have to change bedding periodically of course, and straighten out top sheets and blankets etc. But why make it look like nobody sleeps there if it’s just your family in the house? Sure, if you have guests coming over, then I can see it.
LuvThemPluggers almost 8 years ago
and Janis appreciates having the whole bed to herself! Win, Win!
Varnes almost 8 years ago
I may have made my bed about four times in my life…
Cminuscomics&stories Premium Member almost 8 years ago
If you go to bed really early, you do not have to do the dishes.
jarvisloop almost 8 years ago
Does everyone who posts here know that Jimmy also has a blog that features retro strips?
nosirrom almost 8 years ago
Panel 1: AgreedPanel 2: AgreedPanel 3: For me it’s more like a quiet fog until the third cup of coffee.Panel 4: Who makes their bed? I mean it’s not like I’m giving tours. And I save time when it’s time to retire.
Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member almost 8 years ago
nosirrom,
I never got the idea of making a bed either. I can see when you have visitors over (if they plan to peek inside your room) or if you’re showing your house to realtors or potential renters. Otherwise, for daily business, making a bed is pointless.
Laynegg almost 8 years ago
I must make my bed..to do otherwise invokes my Mom’s wrath…even if she is two hours away from me and can’t see it. She is psychic! LOL!
Doctor_McCoy almost 8 years ago
How many of us once had to make our beds so that a quarter would bounce if dropped on it? Perhaps Arlo did too.
beach004 almost 8 years ago
US Navy admiral and Navy SEAL William H. McRaven: Every morning in basic SEAL training, my instructors, who at the time were all Viet Nam veterans, would show up in my barracks room and the first thing they would inspect was your bed.
If you did it right, the corners would be square, the covers pulled tight, the pillow centered just under the headboard and the extra blanket folded neatly at the foot of the rack—rack—that’s Navy talk for bed.
It was a simple task—mundane at best. But every morning we were required to make our bed to perfection. It seemed a little ridiculous at the time, particularly in light of the fact that were aspiring to be real warriors, tough battle hardened SEALs—but the wisdom of this simple act has been proven to me many times over.
If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another.
By the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed. Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that little things in life matter.
If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
And, if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made—that you made—and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.
Going Nuts almost 8 years ago
@beach004 Thanks for that.
ScullyUFO almost 8 years ago
Daily bedmaking is an act of self-discipline, especially when there is no one around to check up on it. Self-disciplined people accomplish more and accomplish better.
Alphaomega almost 8 years ago
I was going to comment, but I think I’ll run off and make the bed first!
sbwertz almost 8 years ago
We have satin sheets. (If you have arthritis, it makes it easier to turn over and move around at night.) As a result, by morning the bed is a bit if a rat’s nest. The sheets are slippery (that’s the whole point, after all) and they don’t stay in place like regular sheets do. So either I have to make it in the morning, or make it before we go to bed!
ladylagomorph76 almost 8 years ago
Read in some “experts article” that instead of making your bed you should actually turn the bedding halfway down, to “freshen” the sheets. I think way to many people are getting paid to write articles now that we have the Internet.
My lovely hubby makes the bed every morning. Plus he washes the sheets and puts them back on when they need it. He’s also taken over the cooking and dish washing, and helps with laundry and house cleaning. When he retired….I got to retire, too! We have a very sweet retirement! He’s in agreement. It was HIS idea!
Raijin almost 8 years ago
Is it just me, or does Janis seem to be ‘distant’ from Arlo lately? (as in the past several months). Like Friday’s strip, in which she alluded that she wants NOTHING more than a hug from him, and he’s blatant that her sentiment is getting old, and maybe he DOES want something more than a hug. And then, in yesterday’s strip, the look on her face was far from ‘affectionate’… Maybe it’s just me, but there seemed to be more affection and hanky-panky a couple of years ago than recently. More of a cold shoulder from her than anything else…
locake almost 8 years ago
I get up early and make the bed after my spouse gets up. I always make the bed, I hate a messy looking house. An unmade bed looks sloppy.
Charliegirl Premium Member almost 8 years ago
The day my husband made a bed, no matter what time he got up, is the day I’d faint dead away, lolol.
annqueue almost 8 years ago
One has only so much self discipline. I’d rather use mine on more important things than making the bed.
Dani Rice almost 8 years ago
Hubby keeps pulling the covers up under his chin until his (our!) feet stick out. If I don’t want to wear the bedspread as a boa, one of us had better tidy things up.
JAE in MN over 3 years ago
Why do people bothering “making the bed”, anyway?— if not in the military or a residential school or something? I’m not a slob in general terms, but I never really have understood the making the bed thing. You have to change bedding periodically of course, and straighten out top sheets and blankets etc. But why make it look like nobody sleeps there if it’s just your family in the house? Sure, if you have guests coming over, then I can see it.