What Bed Making Says About Your Partner
How this simple household chore can be a window into people’s personality
Although it just takes a couple of minutes to do, making the bed in the morning is a household chore that many people tend to avoid. I know from firsthand experience because I’m one of them. Maybe your partner is too, and it drives you crazy. But did you know that bed making habits can be a window into other personality traits?
When I ran across a survey of 2,000 people by Sleepopolis about their bed making habits, I perked up with interest as I looked over at my messy bed that right now is housing a couple of books I’m in the middle of reading. To say my bed isn’t pristine is an understatement, but what else does this say about me and others who don’t make time for bed making in the morning?
According to the survey, people who don’t make the bed are also prone to:
- Being night owls
- Enjoying comedy shows and movies
- Listening to rock music
- Being sarcastic
- Being curious
- Being moody
Okay, I’ll accept these results. Sounds like not making the bed all the time makes me pretty damned cool.
But wait, there’s more! The survey also indicated that people who don’t make the bed are more likely to work in finance, be shy, break promises, have few close friends, use their snooze alarm regularly, and snore.
Well, it looks like I don’t tick all the boxes. But let’s take a look at how those of us who don’t make the bed every day compare to regular bed makers.
The Traits of Regular Bed Makers
Does your partner make the bed every morning like clockwork? According to what survey respondents told Sleepopolis, people who make the bed regularly are more likely to:
- Wake up without an alarm
- Have jobs in technology or healthcare
- Be confident
- Listen to jazz
- Watch romantic movies
- Be adventurous
- Be morning people
- Be high maintenance
- Be sociable
- Eat healthy
- Exercise regularly
- Enjoy cooking
- Be a sleepwalker
- Believe in ghosts
Okay, it seems that I have some things in common with bed makers. Your partner might as well. So maybe we’re not that different after all.
Does Bed Making Affect Sex and Relationships?
Although we know that housecleaning can help couples bond with each other, does making the bed specifically have any impact on people’s relationships?
It turns out, it can. In fact, about 30 percent of people surveyed said that when getting to know a potential partner, a messy bed can actually be a turn-off.
Also, people who make the bed regularly report to having more sex, with bed makers doing the deed three times a week and those with sloppy beds only twice a week on average.
So people who make their beds regularly seem to enjoy more benefits than people like me, but how many of them are really regular bed makers in the first place? I’d argue many of them are more like me than they think since 42 percent who said they make the bed every day do it at the behest of their partner.
No matter whether you’re like me and don’t always bother to make the bed, or you’re a daily bed maker, at the end of the day, the director of content at Sleepopolis, Logan Block, says the most important thing is getting a good night’s sleep.
“While it’s interesting to examine the differences between people who make their bed and people who don’t, the differences pale in importance to getting a good night’s sleep,” said Block. “Results highlighted the sleep loss epidemic that Americans are facing — sleep is incredibly important to our mental and physical health, yet the average American is only getting six-and-a-half hours per night. There are many easy solutions to getting more sleep, including going to bed at an earlier time and being in a comfortable environment conducive to sleep.”
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Source:
Renner, B. (2019, January 30). Whether or not you make your bed reveals much about your personality. Study Finds. https://www.studyfinds.org/making-bed-reveals-much-about-personality/