The Greatest Philosophical Debate of Our Time
Sheets have one side that is the good side and one side that is the bad side. The good side is the one that looks nicer and the bad side is the one that looks like the fabric was turned inside-out that also has tags on it. When you make the bed, do you put the good side up so that, well, the good side is up? Or do you put the good side down so that when you flip over all the covers the good side is showing?
This is what married folks argue about, btw.
March 7th, 2007 at 10:04 am
It should be made so that when turned down, the “bright” side is displayed.
And after being made, all beds should be turned down.
The bed should be turned down at least half-way. During the night, you sweat and the bedding must be given a chance to air out.
(And the bed should be made before leaving for work that day.)
(Also, two sprays of Lilac on the bedding after turn-down are beneficial.)
(don’t take this the wrong way – you argue because one — or both — of you needs to do some learnin’.)
🙂
March 7th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Nah, good side up. That’s the way we did it in the Army. We didn’t use Lilac. 😛
March 7th, 2007 at 11:33 am
In my home, we setttle most arguments like this by agreeing to disagree. Whoever makes the bed gets to decide how the bed gets made. It drives me nuts to see dishes get put away wrong, but really, if I’m just standing around watching, who am I to complain?
March 7th, 2007 at 11:44 am
Buy sheets with two good sides.
March 7th, 2007 at 11:55 am
I recommend farting them up but good if you are looking to go nuclear over this.
March 7th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
The side that goes up is whichever side my wife says. We have strategerized on one king-sized bottom-sheet with two separate twin comforters, one each – it keeps the blanket-theft and cold 3:AM leg-exposure down. Also it’s easier to make-up in the morning.
March 7th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
I say good side down, against your body, but I am frequently over-ruled.
I also say toilet paper rolls out over the top.
March 7th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
I don’t make the bed. My wife does. Whatever she wants.
March 7th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Fortunately, I remain single, so my answer is somewhere along the lines of “Make the bed? Why would I want to do that? I’m just gonna mess it up again tonight….”
March 7th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
What countertop said. In my house, we settle every argument with me saying “Yes, dear”. I know my wife loves me because she bought me my very own blanket for sleeping on the couch. 😉
March 7th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
I want to know what side of the debate Uncle was on. And who won. 🙂
March 7th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
I don’t give a sheet one way or the other. Jack.
March 7th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Bitter, I’m on the side for which i provided an explanation. The other side makes no sense.
I made the bed last, so I won this time.
March 7th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
All y’all crack me up – _Jon; too much info (gave me chills), Brutal and Scott – that’s right! And Countertop – that’s typically how it goes….
March 7th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Scott: Over the top is Objectively Correct.
Because that way you can get paper off of it more easily; off the back puts it too close to the roll mounting surface, and makes it harder to grasp.
March 7th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
I don’t care as long as it isn’t put on sideways. My wife actually has done this more than once.
March 7th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
I sleep on top of the sheets, so the good side is up. The only times I’ve slept under a sheet were in hotel rooms. I didn’t find it very comfortable.
I believe hotels use special “double good side” (or “double sided good”?) sheets.
March 7th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
I’m a bachelor, so I vote for “falling asleep in the La-Z-Boy with the TV on.”
March 7th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
There are sheets on a bed? I usually just lay down on whatever is on top.
March 7th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
(Also, two sprays of Lilac on the bedding after turn-down are beneficial.)
I guess thats a woman thing. My damn wife sprays that shit on her pillows every damn night…
March 7th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
There are two phases of marriage:
1st Stage) Pretty soon Both sides are not the good side.
2nd stage) Yes, Dear.
March 7th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
This would be the top sheet, not the fitted bottom sheet, right? Not an issue. My wee wifey uses nothing but a top sheet during the summer when I’m down to two blankets. During the winter I’m under three blankets and a quilt, and she has a different quilt, but no top sheets are involved.
The sort of guests who would judge us by how the bed is made don’t get to look inside the bedroom.
March 7th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
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March 7th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
There are three stages of marriage:
Stage 1, Casual Sex. Anywhere, anytime. In the car, in the vestibule, in the kitchen, in the laundry room ….
Stage 2, after a while, especially with kids,you settle down to Bedroom Sex.
Stage 3, Oral Sex. As you pass each other on the way to work, “Fuck You”! “Fuck You”!
March 8th, 2007 at 12:12 am
I make the bed, so good side out and labels out of sight (they give me the heebie-jeebies, go figure. Although there’s a girl in the KROQ listening audience who freaks out at the word ‘moist’ and the morning jocks torment her every once in a while, so semi-pseudo-objectively, I don’t have the weirdest phobia.)
But after 15 years of marriage, my wife still puts my fat pillow on TOP of the thin pillow. NO! Thin pillow on top!
March 8th, 2007 at 7:57 am
Well, this is all very good for the relationship experts among the married commentariat, but here’s a real poser for you – squeeze the toothpaste tube from the bottom or the middle?
March 8th, 2007 at 11:24 am
Simple system in our house: if you complain about how the other person is doing it then you get to do it. Eventually one us wises up and stops complaining.
Oh – and TP was over the top until one cat found out how much fun it was. (sigh)
March 8th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
I can answer this. The good sides touch each other inside (which seems to be the most concrete way of putting it.) How do I know? Waterbed sheets have the top sheet sewn to the bottom sheet, and this is how they sew them together.