That’s all I do with sheets anyway.
I only officially make the bed the day I change the sheets. My husband often pulls up the sheets and comforter during the day, but I purposefully leave much of my side uncovered when I get up.
He would prefer it to be made and neat every day.
We went to Italy last year and at least 1 place we stayed had the small down comforter on each side, in a fresh duvet cover or whatever. I can’t remember, but I don’t think they had a separate top sheet for either side. I really liked that arrangement. I don’t know that I’d enjoy washing the duvets and sticking the comforters back in each week though. I might rather have 2 small sheets to go with the small comforters, but that would be pretty messy.
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When you say “top sheet,” what do you mean?
We used to call it the sheet that goes on top of the comforter and gets tucked at the top under the bottom sheet. The top and bottom sheets work like a duvet cover of sorts. The mattress is covered with the fitted sheet. So there are 3 sheets on the bed. I really hated that set up and ditched the top and bottom sheets. Only use a fitted one. Comforter is washable cotton covered and gets washed.
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Yes, unless it’s laundry day and I’m stripping the bed.
Well, I made bed making pretty easy. So now whomever goes to bed first turns down the covers and puts candy on the pillow… 
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I absolutely make my bed every single day. I would feel out of sorts for the whole day if I didn’t make my bed!
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I am enraged that apparently this is a thing! Putting at least a top sheet on saves having to change a duvet cover.
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I make the bed daily. I don’t make it as neatly as I did when I was younger. I was raised to make my bed right when I got out of it.
The best feeling is the night after the cleaning person has come. The sheets are clean and she makes a tight crisp fitting bed.
My kids are a mix. My oldest always has a nice looking made bed. I don’t know if it’s her or her husband who makes it. 2nd kid is about 50% of the time but he has a really clean on cluttered house. Youngest is a big mess. I have rarely seen her bed made. Her spouse does make a great guest bed. He was in the military which is where I figured he learned.
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One hotel on our last trip in Spain had two beds pushed together and each side had its own top sheet and duvet.
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I use to joke that if I ever won the lottery, (I would have to first start buying tickets,) I would hire someone to come change my sheets daily. I love a freshly made, tight bed.
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I’m in the “let it air out” camp. I flip back the triangle of top sheet and comforter and leave it while I have my tea and newspaper. Flip it back closed and straighten everything when I go back into the bedroom to get dressed. I don’t like seeing a messy bed and when we are in our Seattle condo the bed is visible from the dining room. After decades of bottom sheet plus duvet cover I’m back to two sheets. It just takes too much work to get a king sized comforter stuffed back into the cover every week.
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I also like a tight bed.
And I’m also confused on the term “top sheet”. Our layers are mattress, bamboo mattress topper, fitted sheet, flat sheet, cotton blanket, quilt. Is one of those the “top sheet”?
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We have quilts on all of our beds. Every morning, we straighten the sheets, and pull up the quilt. Is that making your bed? If so, we do it every day. We each have two pillows…one is a decorative sham and the other is our one we sleep on. In the morning, the quilt is pulled up, the sleeping pillows are put on the bed, and the sham ones go on top leaning. It looks nice. I think.
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The top sheet in my mind is the flat sheet. Not sure what others are thinking.
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For our house, a sheet set comes with a fitted sheet and a flat sheet. That’s what I call the bottom and the top. On top of that, we put my comforter and/or H’s blanket in the winter. On top is the decorative comforter that comes with the decorative pillows and shams that is folded on the floor during the night. I wash that maybe 2-3x year to help reduce cat fur.
I confess though that I hadn’t heard of a duvet until I was many years/well over a decade into adulthood. I can’t see us ever having such a thing.
Signed, country bumpkin (though my parents grew up in nyc)
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I have seen this also in Italian hotels
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It’s making your bed if that works for you!
I like things tight and tucked. And I walk around the bed to make sure the same amount is hanging and the same amount of wood is showing - I get ribbed by H quite a bit about needing a measuring stick to make the bed - lol!
Pillows is a whole other discussion . Some
People are basic, some have a lot.
We have 2 pillows each to use for sleeping and then one king sham for each of our sides, H also has an extra small pillow that he needs when he sleeps but I ask that it gets put away and not on the bed once made. As I said, the dog messes them up anyway!
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Oh…the quilt needs to be hangin evenly over the sides of the bed…and we tuck in the foot of the bed. It’s smooth and looks nice.
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That’s what my kids did throughout their childhoods. The one who’s married sleeps under the covers now and makes the bed every morning.
We have a mattress cover, fitted sheet, flat sheet, blanket and comforter. My kids used to tuck in both the flat and fitted sheet (tucked in at the top too) so half the time I didn’t see it!!
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