SCIENCE: DON’T MAKE YOUR BED

Science is now telling us not to make our beds. Why? Mites. Dr. Stephen Pretlove of London’s Kingston University’s School of Architecture says that mites can only survive by taking in water from the atmosphere using small glands on the outside of their body. Leaving a bed unmade during the day can remove moisture from the sheets and mattress so the mites will dehydrate and eventually die. Experts recommend leaving your bed unmade for the entire day and making it (if you must) when you get home later on. By that point, many of the mites will have died. (NOTE: Today is ‘Make Your Bed Day’!)
* There are experts on not making beds?
* What am I saying – of course there are. I have kids.
* Great, so we’re supposed to sleep with dead mites now.
* As you go through your working day, try not to think about how you left the mites at home to die a slow, agonizing death. In your bed.
* “Many of the mites will have died.” So it’s the strongest ones that will be still alive when you lay down. Still alive, and angry.
* Not making your bed also gives a chance for the bed bugs to get some sun.
* Oh sure, I’m going to come back late in the day and make the bed then. Got it.
* They even throw in an “if you must” like it’s some kind of burning compulsion.
* Okay, let’s just say this guy is right. Then what’s he doing at the School of Architecture?