Thursday, July 28, 2005

Every one needs 409!

This weeks work out for two:

For the beginner: Making a bed.
For the intermediate: Making two beds.
For the advanced: Making all the beds.

Now making beds may not be the most strenuous thing you can think of for exercise, but it is an art form that requires controlled movement and uses just about every muscle.

Using your hands palm side down gently pat the wrinkles out of the mattress pad.
Grab one corner of a bottom sheet with both hands and softly toss it up in the air, maintaining a tight grip on one corner at all times. The sheet should fluff up and billow out on its way down landing perfectly on top of the bed.
Next take a top sheet, (which should have been folded square) and repeat what you did with the bottom sheet. The top sheet should land, if you do it exactly how we tell you, perfectly on top of the bottom…never mind the rumples, you probably didn’t pat the mattress pad out just right.
Next the light blanket (or, for more advanced bed makers and colder weather, a heavy blanket) should be laid across the bed on top of the top sheet. Tuck in any extra blanket overhanging at the foot of the bed, be sure to square the corners….if you do not know how to square the corner, find some one who does immediately, do not proceed with the next steps until at least two corners of the bed have been squared.
Then the bed spread goes on. Now, this takes a little more precision, make sure it is centered on the bed so that the same over hangs on both sides. Make sure there is just enough on the bottom so that it hides the unsightly box spring and yet does not drag. All of the extra bedspread that can not be left at the bottom should be pulled to the top and folded back down.
Lay two pillows on top of the folded back bed spread.
Lay one pillowcase on each pillow.
Then fold the folded bed spread back up rolling the pillows with it until they are sitting nicely at the head of the bed under the bed spread.
Miraculously the pillowcases will put them selves on the pillow’s as they are being rolled in the bed spread.

Please don’t try all three levels on the same day.
Results not typical.
Do not try this at home...or at work.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

How do the pillows do that? Case themselves?
Thankyou for the lesson but I think you forgot some steps. Like folding the topsheet over the blanket at the top of the bed....
Wish I was there to
"work out" with you today!