Making a bed
No Hospital Corners Needed

Traditionally making a bed the "right" way meant using the hospital bed making technique of the mitered hospital corner. Hospital corners work to secure the top sheet at the foot of the bed but you almost need an instruction manual to get it right!

Just because hospital bedmaking techniques are used in a hospital doesn't mean they have to be used in your home. Perhaps there are other techniques that will work just as well as hospital corners?

It is not likely that my new twist and tuck technique will be taught in nursing school any time soon. Hospitals are quite conventional places and slow to change. Hospital bedmaking techniques are firmly cemented in the hospital culture and are not likely to change in the near future.

So leave those hospital corners with the nurses and take this new technique and apply it in your home right away!

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There is one other advantage to this great technique......no more squished toes!

You cannot get squished toes with this bedmaking technique because the top sheet is not tucked in at the bottom. It is only fastened at the corners.

This technique is so easy and so simple anybody can do it without an instruction manual! Even if you do manage to kick the corners loose it is so easy to simply twist and tuck them in again!

Making a bed has never been easier, however, this technique will not work if you have blankets on your bed. If you want to tuck your blankets in then using traditional hospital corners would be preferable. The twist and tuck technique works well for beds that have only the top sheet and the comforter, or duvet. That is the easiest way anyway. We gave up blankets in our home a long time ago!

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