My thoughts about beds even though they maybe different to how other people think.
Well, our bed looks very simple and plain, doesn’t? But I love it.
1. I love our linen sheets, linen pillowcases, and linen cover. So healthy. Linen material has the highest frequency of all materials (except wool which has the same) giving off 5000 Hz. Even linen clothing is the best. I don’t always get to wear linen but at least we sleep on linen sheets all night. And when I wash our sheets I always make sure it is a lovely fine day so they can dry in the beautiful sunlight which sanitizes, deodorizes, and disinfects. It’s so wonderful to sleep in sheets that have dried in the fresh air. In fact, I dry all my towels and clothes in the sunlight and never use a dryer.
2. You notice I don’t have any fancy pillows on my bed which is the normal fashion these days. But I think it is such a waste of time to have to take off all the pillows at night? And where do you put them? On the floor? Now that’s not very hygienic. And then you have to out them back in the morning when I could use those moments to do something more industrious.
3. You will notice that we only have a queen size bed. I told my husband that if we got a king size bed that I would never find him. And that would be disastrous! I love to have him near me all night. When the children were young and I was nursing babies in bed and all the children were coming in one by one we only had a full size and yet we never thought a thing about it. Somehow, we all squashed in! We must have been a lot skinnier in those days!
4. I am also a great believer in making our bed as soon as we get up. I think an unmade bed is slovenly. I believe it is an important habit and one that we should train our children to do, without exception.
5. Oh yes, another thought. I notice a lot of people these days only use one sheet, a sheet on the bottom and then the bedcover on top. I don't like that idea at all. I don't thin it is so hygienic. I believe in two sheets, the bottom and the top--and then the covers. It is much easier to wash sheets than a big bed cover. And if you don't have a top sheet, you will need to wash the eiderdowns more frequently.
Plus, in the summertime, you can enjoy sleeping between the two sheets without a big cover over you which is too hot.
Back when I was growing up, they didn't have fitted sheets. So this was the plan. Every week we took the bottom sheet off and put it in the laundry to wash. We then put the top sheet on the bottom and a new one on the top. This was repeated every week. Now we have fitted sheets, we wash both at the same time. At least washing sheets is easier than big bed covers.
Blessings from Nancy Campbell