An important lesson in changing bed linen
Why has no-one ever pointed out to me the importance of stripping the bed AND IMMEDIATELY making the bed up with fresh bed linen during the same 10 minutes?!
Perhaps I’m part of a small slovenly minority who didn’t know why whisking the dirty bed linen away to the washing machine without taking the time to replace the linen with fresh is a Bad Habit (I’ve been doing it this way since leaving home aged 17).
This morning I changed the bed in our bedroom and congratulated myself for having the energy and time to take off last weeks sheets and put on fresh. I felt midly relieved that I wouldn’t have the shock of realising that they needed sheets and duvet covers to be put on just when I least wanted to.
This afterternoon while out with the kids I started feeling really poorly which turned into a migraine. Luckily Darren was home and able to drop what he was doing to bath the children and put them to bed while I fell shivering into our bed with a splitting headache and feeling really nauseous.
I was so thankful that I’d spent the extra time (no more than 3 minutes) to pop the fitted sheet, duvet cover and pillow cases on during my morning houswork session that I vowed to myself that myself I would always do a complete change of each bed from now on instead of my previous habit of taking the sheets off and waiting until I’m next upstairs to install the new linen.
I also promised myself that I would pass on this top tip to my kids so they don’t spend half their life being irritated by beds which are not ready to be slept in.