Really, I’m not bored. But as I was making beds this morning I remembered a lengthy discussion with my friend Ilene and her sister Judy when I was a girl staying at their home.
When you make a bed, do you place the sheet with the right side up or the right side down? You will tell a difference when you open the bed. If the right (finished) side is up, when you open the bed you will see the back side. If the finished side is down, when you open the bed two finished sides greet you.
It’s really about obsolete as a question, isn’t it? I mean, how many sheets have a right and a wrong side, heh-heh? The flannel sheets in our guest room do, that’s why I wondered.
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Ryc – too many years since my high school Latin, but I did remember that “mater” is mother (mom) – but I had forgotten what “magister” was. Thanks. And I hadn’t realized that All Creatures Great & Small was available on DVD. Will have to look into that – I have missed that series since they no longer run it on PBS.
Great minds think alike. LOL
I am very particular about bed making, and have done it in both the ways you describe. I have settled on the right side down method, so that when I open the bed I see the pattern well-defined.
My preciseness hinders my accomplishments sometimes, as I delay completing a task until it can be done the right way. The results are often disastrous in a household with even 2-3 people. That’s one of the family habits we’re working on this summer: remember you’re not alone in the home, and that it really matters when you dont put something back where it belongs.
Check out Carmon’s entry and let me know which hymns y’all sang in church today.
I think about that each time I put on clean sheets. Personally, I don’t look at which side up the sheet is when I’m in the bed. But, I do like to turn the top of the sheet down about 6 inches and I like the border to be right-side-up, if you know what I mean. I love All Creatures. We watched one last night, in fact. Have you ever listened to Christopher Timothy read the books? Wonderful! In fact, Christophor Timothy is James Herriot to me!Blessings,Janie
Remember the book ‘Homecomforts’? She has a pretty good section on it. (What I like about that book is that I get to delve into the words of things as well as the doing! :0) I think more like godsfarmgirl: I like the trimming on the folded down part at the top of the sheet. What I always thought was wierd was that the print goes “down” [toward the feet] instead of “up” [toward the head] when you make the bed. Maybe it’s a disguised social engineering tactic, to numb us to the “rightness and wrongness” of things! Ha!
Janie, I’ll look for Christopher Timothy in my library. Some books come alive with a good reader. Have you read the No. 1 Ladies Detective books? I read them with great pleasure, but listening to an African reader was wonderful. I also wondered how some of the names were pronounced.
I like it with the print on the inside. This way, when I fold the sheet over at the top–there is the pretty part of the sheet.