Here is something I was just thinking about, because I think about all kinds of things, really, all the time, usually without any reason. When you make your bed, I mean, when you put clean sheets on your bed (provided you do such a thing, that is, and if you don’t, um, gross) do you tuck the top sheet in at the foot of the bed? Hospital corners: yes or no?
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I don’t tuck the sheet in at the foot, because with our footbed I can’t really get to it. But I actually used to make beds in a hospital, so hospital corners are pretty much a habit for me.
Posted by Brittney | January 6, 2009, 8:31 pmtop sheet?
Posted by z | January 6, 2009, 8:48 pmyes, if you leave parts untucked, it just looks odd…
Posted by Davidov Kosovo | January 6, 2009, 9:11 pmHospital corners? Yes, or at least as close to hospital corners as I can get when I’m not fully awake. Tucking in at the foot of the bed? No.
Posted by Kathy | January 6, 2009, 9:23 pmYes, I do. I can’t stand for my feet to stick out the bottom of the bed, except for when I get hot. Then I push one of them through the tuck until the sheet comes undone. This is a great pleasure of my life.
Posted by wifey | January 6, 2009, 10:04 pmYes because I’m am paranoid about basically any and all bugs crawling up onto the bed by way of the sheets touching the floor.
I just tend to be crazy like that.
Posted by SA | January 6, 2009, 10:42 pmI tuck them in at the foot, but stopped with the hospital corners after basic training.
Posted by You can call me, 'Sir' | January 7, 2009, 12:20 amNo top sheet to be found anywhere near my bed. The first thing I do in a hotel bed is untuck the bottom… can’t stand it!
Posted by emily ann | January 7, 2009, 1:03 amI’m one of those lazy people who don’t use a top sheet. Basically cause it means extra laundry.
Posted by Nikki | January 7, 2009, 3:22 amI don’t tuck it in.
I’m tall and my feet need room.
Posted by Peter | January 7, 2009, 7:52 amBed’s not made if it isn’t tucked in!
Posted by mister_pj | January 7, 2009, 8:57 amSiempre!
Posted by Jaime Ferreyros | January 7, 2009, 3:59 pmTucked!
But more likely:
Unmade!
Posted by srah | January 7, 2009, 5:01 pmI’ve never done that. What for?
Posted by fabulitas | January 7, 2009, 5:09 pmI tuck, but honestly: what the hell are hospital corners, because I’m pretty sure I can’t make them.
Posted by Fraulein N | January 7, 2009, 6:08 pmTucked in with the occasional hosptial corners, this way I know that the boogeyman under the bed won’t grab my feet.
Posted by Craig | January 7, 2009, 7:06 pmcrap, can’t spell, can’t type, can’t edit…..
Posted by Craig | January 7, 2009, 7:07 pmOh good, I feel better now. I am an obsessive tucker, in that I have been known to get up in the middle of the night and fix it if it comes untucked. Ahem.
Fraulein N — here is a video explaining how to make hospital corners. It made me laugh, right out loud. If you watch it, I’m sure you will understand why:
Posted by jamelah | January 7, 2009, 7:08 pmI used to tuck, until I started living with a man who is 6’4″. Now I can’t or he gets grouchy about his feet being trapped.
Posted by Laura | January 7, 2009, 8:38 pmWe don’t use our sheets on top of us. Our top sheet has an electric blanket on top of it and we sleep on top of that. So, yes tucked in and yes hospital corners.
Posted by Sylvie | January 8, 2009, 1:59 pmI was a medic in the military, so I tuck. It’s an automatic response. Put me at the foot of an unmade bed and I tuck.
And no, that’s not a euphemism for anything.
Posted by greg | January 8, 2009, 3:19 pmI’m a tucker. Can’t stand it not to be.
Posted by martha | January 8, 2009, 7:29 pm