I find ironing extremely therapeutic, I often iron anything and everything while watching tv. When my daughter hit 4th grade, she told me to stop ironing her jeans with the crease down the front, the other kids were making fun of her. I not only love ironed sheets, but ironed pajamas as well. I remember growing up having to “sprinkle” the clothes to be ironed with water, rolling them and putting them into the freezer before ironing. I blame my mom for my ironing obsession. L-)
I am not a restless sleeper and neither is DH, so the sheets are not messed up when we get up in the morning. I sometimes do and sometimes don’t make the bed, but can slip in and pull the sheets up easily even if not made so not getting into a bed with twisted up sheets and blanket.
I rarely iron and look for wrinkle resistant to the extent possible. Even when we were just starting out and trying to save for a down payment, we sent DH’s shirts to the shirt laundry (back in the shirt and tie every day at the office days). That $1 or so per shirt was money well spent, since both of us worked full time and commuted quite a distance.
This bed making thing is making me wonder what is right or wrong.
Taught our children to make beds.
My son made his bed first week off at college but roommate discouraged him saying
It is just discipline for disciplines sake.
Ultimately I think you have to make the bed or at least straighten it up whether it is at night before you retire or morning after getting up
I make the bed to the extent that I pull the quilt over the footboard and flip up a corner to make a tent for the cats’ late afternoon nap.
I just assumed that everyone made their beds. I ‘air out’ for an hour and then make the bed. Fairly quick and easy with a duvet cover. One son completely tears his bed apart each night and has to put it back together each morning.
As to ironing the sheets…no, never, although I have a friend who owns a mini sheet press that she uses for the top part of the flat sheet that is folded over. She had this device at her summer home, so I have to guess she has one at her year round home. It wasn’t the Miele one listed above, but instead was the size of a mini ironing board…the size you would buy for a college dorm.
College students sit on their beds a lot. That seems to be a reason to make it (more comfortable, I would think).
Or they just throw back the top and sit on the sheet. Which makes me want to ask, who bathes before climbing in? (I’ve known people who were morning showerers.)
I take a bath almost every night. It helps me fall asleep.
I do brush my teeth and shower nightly. Usually scoop the litterbox, put out recycling, sweep the floor (I love sweeping–nervous habit). Just about everything else can wait. My parents were very strict about making beds as soon as we got up, and washing dishes the second the meal was finished. I didn’t like that. So I let it go. When someone is coming to visit, I’ll knock myself out cleaning. But most of the time, I don’t care that much. A made bed looks nice, but I’m too lazy to do it all the time.
I have a Rowenta (got it from Costco, made in Germany, paid about $60): when it dies, it will be replaced with a B&D. Irons are a frequent topic on my quilter’s chat groups. Don’t pay big $$ for one.
I love to iron, but not sheets. My college boyfriend’s mother was German and she ironed sheets and underwear. Um, no! I used to iron DH’s dress shirts, but after I got sick, decided there were better uses of my energy.
I can’t sleep with the sheets tucked in at the bottom. I need to have room for my feet to move. Drives DH crazy when we are at a hotel because I strip the bed and divide the linens. At home, we each have separate sheets and blankets. Has worked for almost 33 years. 
I’m joining the thread late, but have read every post
I make my bed first thing in the morning,(wash the sheets twice a week) then unload the dishwasher while the coffee makes, and clean the kitchen up completely after every meal and wipe the cook top and the sink before bed and clean out my handbag every evening (if I’ve been out and acquired receipts and so on) and have a very neat car. And there are no papers on any flat service in my house, except husband’s office. I’m doing all this because I have enough time to live this way, not to impress anyone else and I don’t think it makes me a better person in any way whatsoever. It does make me a calmer person. And I take a bubble bath every night. I do not iron.
My BBF’s mother had one of those big ironers . I was fascinated as a teen but we were warned frequently how dangerous it was with our long hair. I iron less every year.
We have done away with the top sheet. In summer we use a light cotton blanket that gets washed weekly with the bottom sheet and pillowcases, and in the winter a duvet with a sheet-weight cover. In the morning the top layer gets flipped back to air out the bottom sheet. Gets flipped back later and smoothed out. Is that making the bed? Neither of us can stand tucked-in covers.
I can leave for work without guilt without dong any of these, but typically it’s squeegee after my shower, put away all the grooming and makeup stuff that gets pulled out, put breakfast dishes in DW unless it’s full of clean dishes, then retired DH is in charge. After work, Sort the mail, plan and cook dinner, read CC while DH does dishes…
Since the kids have moved out and we are currently pet-free, I only sweep every few days.
When I go to a hotel, the first thing I do is to put all decorative pillows and bedspread in a closet. I figured other guests have put them on the floor and sat on the bedspread.
I LOVE ironed sheets. I have some old-world relatives who insist on it, and I totally appreciate sleeping over at their homes.
That said, I won’t iron sheets. Way too much work.
I do, however, iron pillow cases. It takes just a few mintues, and it feels so good on the cheek.
Then the next question is: do those CCers who iron pillowcases etc. also starch them? Because that is the only way to get that hotel crispness. I will not go into too much detail, but I became severely “allergic” to starched linens after I got grounded big time by my mom when I forgot about starched laundry and it over dried… you know what happens to starched linens when they dry out completely? 
I’m with oldfort on the hotel decorative bedding.
And for kids in dorms, I hope they fling the outside covers back up over the sheets and pillowcases that their skin touches. Who knows which friend has had friends in your room and sitting on your bed. My D3 once met a kid in class who said “Oh, you are Sara’s room-mate, you have the best bed, I think I drooled on your pillow”. Ewwwww
I hate to iron. No way am I going to iron my sheets. There are so many things I would rather do. Like make my bed!!
Many hotels (thank goodness!) are moving to the duvet style bedding and washable shams instead of a bedspread and decorative pillows.
I try not to think about the whole hotel bedding thing too much otherwise I wouldn’t travel at all and there is a lot I like about traveling .
One of our housekeepers used to iron the ex’s boxer shorts and our jeans. I told her that jeans were not meant to be ironed, but she could continue with the boxer shorts.