… And at worst, actively making your bedroom less functional and more cumbersome to use. The arguments I hear in favor of it are completely asinine and I will address them one by one.
- It makes it more comfortable to sleep in.
I have absolutely no idea where that comes from. Do you all sleep like Dracula? My bedding is usually tussled about within minutes of me laying in bed. Blankets balled up for knee support, one leg sticking out for temperature venting. I couldn’t imagine sliding under the covers and laying perfectly supine like Vladimir Lenin.
- It doesn’t take much time, so you might as well do it.
I find any task not worth my time to be a waste, so unless it has a purpose, it is actively infuriating to do.
- It looks nice. And an unmade bed looks lazy
Given that this is an entirely subjective reason, I can’t exactly “disagree” with it. But if there was someone I trust enough to be in my bedroom, I’m not going to waste my time convincing you that I do not, in fact, sleep in my bed.
Not to mention that if you want to nap or even sit on the end of the bed, you have to make it again. It is an incredibly unstable artwork, making me avoid using my bed unless I really need to.
If you make your bed, I have no judgment for you. Just like people who fold designs into the ends of their toilet paper. I couldn’t imagine caring about something like that, but it literally doesn’t affect me at all, so go nuts.
But I think we should be honest and call it what it is: some kind of shameful cleaning ritual that is probably some vestigial military chore, and I want nothing to do with it.
Here’s a photo of the messiest corner of my bedroom/craft room :) Tiny terrier to for scale.
I’m intensely curious now, because my joints don’t seem to agree with any mattress, whether pillow-topped, air foam, springs, or whatever other fancy gimmicks they claim. Was it a one-and-done with the hammock, or did you test a couple of different ones?
I started out with a hammock in living room as an experiment, then just kept sleeping in it. Same stand, the hammock itself has changed over the years.
The mesh/Mayan ones are comfy but will leave a grid on your skin. I’m currently in a Wise Owl hammock. The cotton ones are comfy but they will break down after a few years of use, usually suddenly while you’re laying down.
Don’t hang your hammock higher than you’re comfortable falling. I’ve only torn a hammock twice in maybe 10 years, but both times were within the same week.
I’m a side sleeper and hyper-mobile. I keep a pillow behind my knees so they don’t flex wonky. I have a travel/neck pillow. I use an under-hammock blanket in the winter because otherwise your butt gets cold.
Oh! And even the hammocks that claim you can fit multiple people… they lie. This is not a bed for partners or sleepovers. (My partner has his own room and traditional bed. We have very different bedtimes.)
When you say that, I remember my dad’s hammock when I was a kid as a torture device that slowly drew the two side kids on top of whoever was the poor soul in the middle, squeezing them like a hydraulic press pushing cheese into a mesh.
How much struggle is it to get the fabrics to lie comfortably in the hammock? Do you just have blankets on top (except for that winter under hammock blanket), or do you line it with a sheet?
I lay down and tuck a blanket around me. I can’t imagine having a blanket or sheet lie flat underneath me. I have experimented with a sleeping bag and that worked pretty well until the zipper broke.
And oh no, poor crushed kids! That’s pretty much how it works. I’ve shared a hammock with a friend out in the yard and it was ok until either of us had to shift or get up or anything.