A Peek Into The Chicks’ FB Messenger Chat.

I don’t know if y’all know this about Daisy, but she’s one of those chicks who uses like 72 pillows on her beds, 70 of which are purely for decoration.  And she knows how to arrange them and organize them and there’s like a whole system and process behind it that is NOT TO BE QUESTIONED.  She is very serious about bedmaking.

Earlier, she sent a link to this article in our Chick Chatroom on FB messenger, and despaired that bedmaking is a dying artform.  And it was a total drive-by for her, because she dropped the link, despaired momentarily, and then checked out, leaving me and the Chicklets to carry on a long, detailed bedmaking convo.  BEHOLD:

Now, I just want to interject here that I MAY have misunderstood the article she sent.  I interpreted it to mean that she makes her bed as follows, in this order (with a person in it):

1.  Fitted sheet around mattress.
2.  Human body.
3.  Flat sheet
4.  Blanket/comforter
5.  Unnecessary useless top sheet
6.  Bedspread/cover

It’s possible, however, that she meant that she’s horrified people don’t use the flat sheet (that COMES IN SHEET SETS) at all, which I agree is horrible.

But here’s a bedmaking factoid about me which I referenced above.  I LOVE the European style of bed making, which is essentially to take TWO flat sheets and sew them into an envelope for your blanket/comforter, which is what I think of when I read “duvet cover.”  I don’t sew, but my mom has made a few sets of sheets like that for us, so that we have blanket envelopes.  I LOVE THIS.

But it turns out, Hannah DOESN’T USE ANYTHING BUT THE FITTED SHEET.  And this is what I now think the article was talking about, in which case I agree with Daisy that we’re all basically doomed.

Daisy will have to weigh in on this, to confirm whether or not she uses a completely unnecessary top sheet ON TOP of her blanket, but I suspect she just uses what Actually Comes in a sheet set, the way Ashley does.  WHICH IS NORMAL AND RIGHT AND APPROPRIATE.

In fact, if you think about it, I’m really the one who uses more sheets than anyone, because I need an extra sheet beyond what comes in a sheet set in order to make the envelope.

I USE SO MANY SHEETS.

Incidentally, now that we’ve moved our older son into an assisted living arrangement, I’ve been turning his room into an Actual Guest Room, which we’ve never really had before.  We just had a guest bed in my husband’s office, and it was uncomfortable and crowded.  Now we have a guest room, and you guys – in order for me to know how to arrange all the extra pillows that came in the bedding set, I had to refer to the picture on the set.  That is how clueless I am about pillows.  But look how pretty it turned out!

You’ll notice that there are two giant plaid-ish pillows in the back, and then there’s the blue pillows that are part of the Actual Sheet set that you would put your Actual Heads on, and then there are more useless decorative floral pillows that are the same size as the blue pillows only they’re more sham-my, and then there are two completely useless decorative pillows.  And that’s just a FRACTION of the number of pillows Daisy would have on a bed.  In fact, this guest room probably makes her simultaneously proud of me for having more than two pillows on a bed, but also mortified that I only have 8 pillows on the bed.

Please weigh in with your bed making habits.