21 days to form a new habit
Does that really work? 21 days? We'll find out.
When I lived by myself I always made up my bed. (I can't remember if I did this when I lived at home or not). Once Spencer and I were married, I had to be up and out of the house before he woke up most mornings - so the bed didn't get made. I think I pouted about this for a year or so but then just got used to it.
Now - many years later, I am still used to just letting the beds go. Sure, they get made up if I know someone might be coming over, but not on an everyday cycle.
Until now.
Last week I started with the beds again. It literally takes 10 minutes out of my morning to get all three beds made. And somehow it makes everything else seem SO much better.
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My brothers and I were forced to make our beds EVERY day as long as we lived at home and I griped about it the whole time. But by the time I moved out and lived on my own, it was so ingrained in me that it felt absolutely wrong to ever leave it unmade. Even now, no matter how late I am running, I won't leave the house with the bed unmade. Jeff did not enter our marriage with same feelings on this, but I think I've got him trained now. :) We have an arrangement that whoever is the last one out of the bed has to make it. And I started my own rule with the kids that once they go to school (just Ella so far), they have to make their own bed. You're right, it does make the day go better. But don't tell my mom. :)
I heard that it is healthy for your bed to be left unmade--it airs out this way. This is what I tell myself anyway :)
Maybe senility has already begun to set in but I cannot remember one single time when you voluntarily made your bed. :)
Nevertheless, we loved you anyway.
lcr
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