Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 11, 2025

“I also didn’t put a mint on the pillow.”

Silly rat, there is nothing like a clean well made bed and room to go to at the end of the day.

I don’t care for bedmaking either…

A lot of young adults tell me, “Well but you’re asleep in bed anyway, why bother.” But making up the bed even if you just smooth the sheets and blankets changes the aspect of the whole room.

What’s Goat doing in Rat’s bedroom anyway?

When you get old you don’t give a Tinker’s dam so you end up living in a pig sty, with no regrets I might add. LOL.

Based on an average life expectancy of 77.5 years, that comes to 6.8 hours spent making the bed every day. I’d quit doing it too, if it took that long.

I get out of bed, and I do not return to that room until it is time to get back into bed. So what is the point of making the room look nice while no one is in there?

Probably less in Rat years!

Apparently we spend a month watching adverts.

It feels like that every day.

Big Lol to the last panel.

One reason to make my bed is so my cat sleeps on the covers instead of under them. Actually, he likes to sleep on the body pillow I bought, so I put a furry pillowcase on it for him. In my home, I guess the phrase “Master bedroom” refers to the room of the cat who is my master.

Rat’s new math!

You make your bed when you get up, it gives a good start to your day as you already accomplished something!

Hummmm …. I use an NCIS Gibbs Bed. Fold up the Afghan in morning ;-)

I can’t stand leaving an unmade bed! All those years of having a strict mom, boarding school, and the Army, left me with a lifelong habit of always making my bed when I first get up. Yes, I even do it in hotel rooms when I travel!

My wife, on the other hand …

MAKE YOUR BED ! Admiral W.H. McRaven , usn

It’s best NOT to make a bed, so the sheets air out. Making a bed traps moisture and dust mites. Allowing them to air out kills off the dust mites.

10 demerits.

Age has its benefits, and not making your bed is one of them!

If you get a bed at IKEA, you will really have to make your bed.

I once put a cherry on my pillow. Then she got up and left…

It takes me about 5 minutes because of all the pillows I have to arrange. I don’t make the bed on Sundays. Day of rest :)

Rat’s brain works in very insane ways.

Let the sweat & drool dry out a bit before you seal it down.

Since I don’t use a top sheet any m ore, I just straighten out the blankets.

I have heard (truly I did) that you shouldn’t make your bed as leaving the blankets pulled down off the part your body touched all night lets that area “air out” a bit. As I am a hot sleeper, I felt this was good advice. Doubly good advice, as I do not enjoy making my bed.

Assuming it takes you 5 minutes to make your bed and you make it every day for 80 years, you will spend about 100 days making your bed.

Takes me about two days to make a bed. More if I whittle designs on the headboard.

Making my bed is one of the first things I do EVERY day. No exceptions – even during my two bouts of COVID. Lessons learned in the Army run deep.

That’s the great thing about having a comforter

Rats got a point

I’d have to do the math. On average, how long does it take to make a bed in the morning?

To save 22 years at one minute (to make the bed) per day, you need to live how many years?

You save 365 minutes per year, ignoring Leap Years. There are 14,400 minutes per day times (22 years times 365 days) divided by 365 days, gives (14,400 time 22), or 316,800 years!

Did I do that right?

Always made my bed, right through my college days. After that, I didn’t see much sense in it. Sometimes after washing the bedclothes, I’d just dump them on the bed and sort of nest in them for a while. Then I got married, and I’m back to making the bed. Sort of. Wife makes it properly.

Math is hard.

I know Rat and Pig live together. But I thought Goat lived elsewhere. Oh well, whatever makes the gag work.

Must let the B.O. air out … I often also turn on the ceiling fan for that.

I make my bed every morning. Can’t stand a messy bed.

P.S., my Mom would be shocked if she were here to see it.

I learned some 54 years ago how to make a bed in under a minute with hospital corners that you could bounce a quarter off of.

2025 – the year of whatever – the year of anarchy

When I was in college, my roommate made his bed once per morning, and I made mine once per semester….,

My unmade bed is directly behind me so I can’t say anything.

A mere 2 minutes a day brushing your teeth (recommended by my electric toothbrush) adds up to a solid 12 hours after just one year.

“I’d question the math” … depends on how long you live, now doesn’t it?I’d question the assumptions made when doing the math

And?

At that point the idiotic stupidity begins.

I sleep on the floor. It is important that my mattress pad gets a good airing all day long.

I didn’t make my bed this morning either. I usually do, but not today.

Also, how did Goat notice? He’d presumably have had to go into Rat’s bedroom, and since they’re both adults and are not lovers or anything, that would be kind of weird.

Rat sleeps in a bed ?

Married 38 years so far, and I doubt we’ve made our bed that many times. I love my wife.

What? Me worry? Yeah!

I can’t stand sleeping in an unmade bed!