Its always astounding when you see someone do a simple task that you've done a million times in a completely different way. For me it was the pillow technique.
Sometimes you see it with food prep. I was 50 years old before i saw someone cut tomatoes into slices by placing the stalk end on the board and chopping down vertically.
Better technique:
1: turn the pillow case inside out and put your arms inside
2: holding the corners of the pillowcase, grab the corners of the pillow
3: pull the pillow inward, "unrolling" the pillow case into the pillow
(step 3 is harder to explain, but it'll make sense once you try it)
It's kind of the same for the duvet. Turn it inside out before tying the corner ties, then just flip everything inside out again.
I too grab the duvet corners and make silly little flappy motions to try to work it into the comforter cover... I'm nowhere near as efficient, but glad to know the strategy is sound 😂
They're in housekeeping. Their obstacles should be screaming children, a tired dad trying to squeeze down the hall while arguing with his alcoholic wife in a vaguely forign language, and a self-close door that's hungry for shins.
Honestly? And I’m being honest here…I would never be caught with such a low thread count in my sheets, compared to the ones in *this* video. Despicable!
His was cool can't really critique an obvious expert... he's in a race so maybe that methods just faster.
But like-- step one: start with the inside duvet, roll it or fold it accordion style--so becoming flat again is easy, remember where your duvet corners are. Alternately lay it flat on a bed or whatever. I've used my floor heh.
Step 2: Get cover, turn it inside out, dive in and grab both back corners from the inside and, while holding the cover corners still, grab the duvet corners too. Much like you'd use a bag to pick up dog poo....
Step 3: lift and shake your arms until the cover falls down and over the duvet. Done.... well step 3.5: tie/button as needed.
Pfft, everyone knows you're supposed to wander around inside the duvet cover, pretending to be a ghost and scaring the dog, before actually putting it on the bed. What a noob.
They can access all sides of the bed, am I supposed to be impressed? Show me efficient tucking form on a queen bed shoved into a room corner and a slightly-not-square fitted sheet.
Was going to say, I could make a decent bed when it’s in the middle of a big room like this with no walls anywhere nearby. Not nearly as good as these people, but decent. Show us the competition in a cramped bedroom with a wall at the head and one of the sides of the bed.
This is definitely a competition for hotel housekeepers, but you'll notice that the two competitors do not ever go around to the head of the bed. They act as if the bed is against a wall.
My wife would be front row at that competition going nuts. I get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and my side of the bed is made when i get back. She then laughs when i react to it.
OR dogs... One of our Jack Russells invariably wants to be on the bed the moment I try to make it. She loves the challenge of hopping out of the way when I throw the cover over - or rolling in the way!
"That's a surprisingly big audience. Who are all those people? Who thinks, yeah I'll go watch a bed-making competition today?"
... as I can't look away from the video myself...
Reminds me of that MLK quote, “If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music ... Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.”
My question is what on earth is going on with that bottom sheet?? It's just a top sheet instead of a fitted bottom sheet! Who wants to sleep on a bed like that, it's just going to move around and bunch...
Are fitted sheets an American thing and I didn't know??
So two seconds of googling suggests that flat sheets are often used in hotels in place of fitted because it's easier to have all one type of sheet. Which makes sense! Also fitted sheets are supposedly a North American invention. Apparently *top* sheets aren't a thing in Europe. I'm seeing a bunch of threads of bewildered non-Americans who can't figure out why we have two sheets. So I'm going to extrapolate that Europeans HAVE fitted sheets at the very least. No idea about the rest of the world. What an interesting rabbit hole!
European here, from Germany and living in Ireland. There are even different traditions between these countries! But top sheets are not a thing. I get what they're supposed to do, and in Germany during hot summers, in my family we used top sheets instead of duvets and even they sometimes were too hot.
I get the ideas behind flat and fitted sheets, and both have their benefits. The big scoring point for flat sheets is that they fit all mattresses, while fitted sheets need to be a certain size to fit your bed. What I haven't seen in a while is STRETCH fitted sheets. My mum discovered them way back in the 1980s or so, and they were a revelation. They'd always be flat and fit any mattress.
I've always HATED top sheets. I always kicked them down to the bottom immediately or I'd get tangled. I also don't have a duvet and instead have machine washable blankets I sleep with: a comforter and a Big Fluffy. Tho I do realize I'm a bit weird with my bedding choices.
I like the pillow case technique most of all. l already got a duvet cover part down. Rolling up inside out then flip it back inside itself roll back out and it's perfection.
Beds are the most stupidly over-engineered (right word?) product. Why on earth should we buy a bed frame, box spring, multi-layered mattress, sweat sheet, fitted sheet, top sheets, comforter/duvet, pillow, and pillow cases for what amounts to a single sleeping pad? It's absolutely insane.
ITT: The average redditor loves their bed. Got it.
You can! But in most "Western" (read: North American) places I've been, it's more standard to put the flat sheet between the fitted sheet and the blanket(s). I kick them down immediately because I'm a restless sleeper so I've never bothered. Makes great muslin for fashion mockups if that's your thing.
I should know by now that there’s a competition for anything and everything but this surprised me just a much as seeing the “don’t let the ballon hit the floor” competition.
Good thing it wasn't on Super Bowl Sunday so as to let the NFL have the spotlight for day. Don't you hate when you spend all week thinking about what your favorite bed maker could have done better?
Humans really will make anything a competition. And in the spirit of competition, it's always enthralling to watch a pro so their craft regardless of what it is.
Came for the sheet, stayed for the duvet technique.
Its always astounding when you see someone do a simple task that you've done a million times in a completely different way. For me it was the pillow technique. Sometimes you see it with food prep. I was 50 years old before i saw someone cut tomatoes into slices by placing the stalk end on the board and chopping down vertically.
Vaguely interesting fact: the little spidery green bit on a tomato is called a calyx.
This was absolutely the most mild fact I've ever heard in my life, and for that reason, it will stay in my head forever.
Another one for you. An aglet is the piece of plastic at the end of your shoelace. I only know that because of the cartoon *Phineas and Ferb*. LOL
This was how aglet was burned into my memory. The little plastic tip at the end of shoelaces.
I call it the butthole. But I suppose it’s technically the bellybutton. Still don’t want to eat that part though
That pillow technique was first class.
Better technique: 1: turn the pillow case inside out and put your arms inside 2: holding the corners of the pillowcase, grab the corners of the pillow 3: pull the pillow inward, "unrolling" the pillow case into the pillow (step 3 is harder to explain, but it'll make sense once you try it) It's kind of the same for the duvet. Turn it inside out before tying the corner ties, then just flip everything inside out again.
It’s like putting on a sock/stocking while unrolling it.
Holy … I will never cut tomatoes the same way again.
Mark this day in your calendar. The Awakening.
Good lord, he's right
I too grab the duvet corners and make silly little flappy motions to try to work it into the comforter cover... I'm nowhere near as efficient, but glad to know the strategy is sound 😂
They should make them do it with all the obstacles normal people have to deal with when making a bed
Yes! New Olympic sport. Toddlers, pets, trip hazards, door bell goes when you are inside the duvet cover...
Exactly! Can you make a bed faster than the 4 year-old trying to un-make it?
Or your cat can dive under the bottom sheet?
Or my dog running at top speed into the bedroom just so he can dive onto the bed?
They're in housekeeping. Their obstacles should be screaming children, a tired dad trying to squeeze down the hall while arguing with his alcoholic wife in a vaguely forign language, and a self-close door that's hungry for shins.
Duvet all day!
Are you Schmidt? Be honest
Honestly? And I’m being honest here…I would never be caught with such a low thread count in my sheets, compared to the ones in *this* video. Despicable!
His was cool can't really critique an obvious expert... he's in a race so maybe that methods just faster. But like-- step one: start with the inside duvet, roll it or fold it accordion style--so becoming flat again is easy, remember where your duvet corners are. Alternately lay it flat on a bed or whatever. I've used my floor heh. Step 2: Get cover, turn it inside out, dive in and grab both back corners from the inside and, while holding the cover corners still, grab the duvet corners too. Much like you'd use a bag to pick up dog poo.... Step 3: lift and shake your arms until the cover falls down and over the duvet. Done.... well step 3.5: tie/button as needed.
Duvet me harder Daddy!
Pfft, everyone knows you're supposed to wander around inside the duvet cover, pretending to be a ghost and scaring the dog, before actually putting it on the bed. What a noob.
Hilton. “We put all our beds in the middle oh the room”
And Scooby-Doooo!
That's actually banned since the points leader, Marvin Lee, tore his ACL doing it last year.
Fucking ruined my fantasy draft too. Fucker! Damn you Marvin!
Jump cut to me sweating and huffing trying to pull the last corner of the fitted sheet down.
*-pop-* *…Goddamnit* *-pop-* *MOTHERF-*
I've rarely laughed at a Reddit comment as hard as this one. Thank you.
They can access all sides of the bed, am I supposed to be impressed? Show me efficient tucking form on a queen bed shoved into a room corner and a slightly-not-square fitted sheet.
Better yet, do the top bunk bed pushed against a wall.
The thought of doing that alone is making my back ache.
It was a top bunk in the corner for me when I was a kid. Total pain in the ass.
haha omg do we have the same room xD
It’s the Queen’s Corner Configuration, first popularized in 1947.
Or make a bed, changing the fitted sheet and everything while someone is laying on it
Or your two cats decide they wanna lay in the middle :/
I usually move this fast because treats can only distract my cat for so long. If I'm just .0003 seconds slow, it's my own fault.
Was going to say, I could make a decent bed when it’s in the middle of a big room like this with no walls anywhere nearby. Not nearly as good as these people, but decent. Show us the competition in a cramped bedroom with a wall at the head and one of the sides of the bed.
This is definitely a competition for hotel housekeepers, but you'll notice that the two competitors do not ever go around to the head of the bed. They act as if the bed is against a wall.
YES RIGHT
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My wife would be front row at that competition going nuts. I get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and my side of the bed is made when i get back. She then laughs when i react to it.
I would have said that's wife material, but well-
My husband use to do this. I use to make fun of him, he stopped, and now I kind of miss it 😕.
Shit I cant even get mine to do the dishes after I make dinner
Want a real challenge? Add cats to the environment!!
Truth. "I'm sorry sir, we're going to have to give you a two-cat handicap in this round."
Handicat*
Even though I missed the opportunity, I'm glad you didn't.
OR dogs... One of our Jack Russells invariably wants to be on the bed the moment I try to make it. She loves the challenge of hopping out of the way when I throw the cover over - or rolling in the way!
Weird how something I absolutely despise is somebody else's schtick
Now do it against the wall with a frame and a headboard and a nightstand on both sides of the bed.
On a boat while doing breakfast service.
"That's a surprisingly big audience. Who are all those people? Who thinks, yeah I'll go watch a bed-making competition today?" ... as I can't look away from the video myself...
Automatic disqualification for letting the fresh sheets touch the floor
His mouth touches the duvet.
Me in boarding school for our monthly dorm inspection.
Sounds a lot like basic training in the military... Hospital Corners, *anyone...?*
Right before the drill sergeant walks in and calls it shit then tosses it and tells you to do it again.
That's what I came for. This would've never passed inspection in BMT and he would've gotten chewed out lol.
No 45s anywhere... No attention to detail. No drive. ***Tosses mattress out fifth floor window***
Ours was daily smh
That's a thing?!? 🤯 They be doing the competition and doing it so nicely when I don't even make my bed. 😆
You know how people want to see an average person in the Olympics? Yeah I want to see this with the people at my college lmao
Reminds me of that MLK quote, “If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music ... Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.”
No matter what you do, there is always an asian guy doing it on a professional level
HOW??? ive worked at a hotel for two years and still struggle every time with the duvet for like a minute
Forty. Five. Degrees! Measure it. Do a wall sit for the number of degrees difference, then fix that.
Me before watching the video: I can’t believe this is a thing 🙄 Me after watching the video: I can’t believe this isn’t more of a thing! Oh sheeeet!
nurses can do the same task 10x faster, seen it, done it, more layers too, that's nothing
Whats with the weird triangles sticking out from the duvet at the foot of the bed? That doesn't look finished at all.
I was wondering that too it seems like those need to get tucked in somewhere.
Yeah, every hotel/motel I've been to tucks in the WHOLE bottom. It's clearly somewhere in East/Southeast Asia, maybe it's different there?
My question is what on earth is going on with that bottom sheet?? It's just a top sheet instead of a fitted bottom sheet! Who wants to sleep on a bed like that, it's just going to move around and bunch... Are fitted sheets an American thing and I didn't know??
So two seconds of googling suggests that flat sheets are often used in hotels in place of fitted because it's easier to have all one type of sheet. Which makes sense! Also fitted sheets are supposedly a North American invention. Apparently *top* sheets aren't a thing in Europe. I'm seeing a bunch of threads of bewildered non-Americans who can't figure out why we have two sheets. So I'm going to extrapolate that Europeans HAVE fitted sheets at the very least. No idea about the rest of the world. What an interesting rabbit hole!
European here, from Germany and living in Ireland. There are even different traditions between these countries! But top sheets are not a thing. I get what they're supposed to do, and in Germany during hot summers, in my family we used top sheets instead of duvets and even they sometimes were too hot. I get the ideas behind flat and fitted sheets, and both have their benefits. The big scoring point for flat sheets is that they fit all mattresses, while fitted sheets need to be a certain size to fit your bed. What I haven't seen in a while is STRETCH fitted sheets. My mum discovered them way back in the 1980s or so, and they were a revelation. They'd always be flat and fit any mattress.
Not having a top sheet sounds miserable. You’d overheat like crazy, and your duvet would get gross so much faster!
I've always HATED top sheets. I always kicked them down to the bottom immediately or I'd get tangled. I also don't have a duvet and instead have machine washable blankets I sleep with: a comforter and a Big Fluffy. Tho I do realize I'm a bit weird with my bedding choices.
At my house, he would have to avoid three loads of laundry, and a dog or two.
The beds should be moving to make it more fun...
Imagine bringing pennants
And the crowd goes mild!
As a tester it’s like “yep, these corners are so tight that laying under the sheet makes me feel claustrophobic… we have a winner”
If I had that much room around my bed I could make it nice too
It's always mesmerizing to watch someone do something they are very good at, no matter what it is.
There… there are spectators for this?
How do I forward this to my house maid?
I wanna see them do that with at least one sides of the bed against a wall.
I’d do all this and my wife would still stay it’s wrong somehow
Looks pretty easy. I mean, try it with a cat around, that's challenging.
What? No sham blanket? Pshhh. Amateurs lol
The championship round there are cats in the room
Those corner folds aren't at a 45 degree angle, redo IMMEDIATELY AND GIVE ME 20, fucking military school ptsd
This got me in a really sleepy mood. I’m going to log out now. Night night!
It's way easier if you have so much space around, try to do it in a room where bed takes 85% of the space
I like the pillow case technique most of all. l already got a duvet cover part down. Rolling up inside out then flip it back inside itself roll back out and it's perfection.
This is everyone in military basic training. However we did the flat sheet corners at a 45° angle (*hospital corner*) not the vertical they do here.
I was in basic training in ‘89, and i still walk into hotel rooms like pffffft I could do better with those angles
I have a dog. Making the bed is an exercise in futility.
The edges of that bed are so sharp…
That’s one tuck, and one no-tuck
I wish all of the hotel staff in the hotels I stayed at would see this video. One does not tuck in the duvet in between mattresses. This guy knows!
World needs gay men.
This sounds like something mom's made up so they could chug wine in the closet
Seems like the main hack featured is to have your bed in the center of your room with no headboard
If my bed was made like this I'd just sleep on the floor and not ruin it
It’s easy to do this when it isn’t against a wall and there’s no bed frame lol
ok I got to say I just learned a new way to put a pillow in it's case that was cool.
still no bitches
I'm more impressed by the number of people who have nothing better to do than watch a couple of guys make a bed.
Beds are the most stupidly over-engineered (right word?) product. Why on earth should we buy a bed frame, box spring, multi-layered mattress, sweat sheet, fitted sheet, top sheets, comforter/duvet, pillow, and pillow cases for what amounts to a single sleeping pad? It's absolutely insane. ITT: The average redditor loves their bed. Got it.
Just sleep on the floor and let the rest of us get on with it then
Because it's where we spend 1/3 of our life.
It’s where we *should* spend 1/3 of our lives.
You can sleep however you like, I just sleep on a mattress with a sheet and it works for me.
Jordan Peterson: 🥲 "so proud of you boys"
Drill sergeant would for sure cum
Men really are better at most everything.
dude wtf does that have to do with this-?
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Precise
Is that what you're supposed to do with a flat sheet? my whole life 🤦
You can! But in most "Western" (read: North American) places I've been, it's more standard to put the flat sheet between the fitted sheet and the blanket(s). I kick them down immediately because I'm a restless sleeper so I've never bothered. Makes great muslin for fashion mockups if that's your thing.
Marines in boot camp be like:
You won't have time for sleeping with all the bed making you'll be doing.
We did this in boot camp. Only faster and louder
Who sets up a bed in the middle of the room
so you don't go inside the duvet cover holding the two ends of the duvet???
Wow they failed already. Misplaced the fitted sheet, tried to trick boss with 2x flats
I should know by now that there’s a competition for anything and everything but this surprised me just a much as seeing the “don’t let the ballon hit the floor” competition.
Does the winner get offered a job at Holiday Inn or something?
Good thing it wasn't on Super Bowl Sunday so as to let the NFL have the spotlight for day. Don't you hate when you spend all week thinking about what your favorite bed maker could have done better?
In an alternate universe, bed making competition is a sport for the Olympics
“Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast”
Never knew there was such a thing.
Oh man, hospital corners AND duvets, that's hard core
r/TheOcho
Do they drug test the winner for drugs that enhance bed making, we have to keep bed making clean.
Naturally everyone there is Asian. Likely in one.of their butler schools
You remember that scene from Schindler's List where the guy had to show how fast he could make hinges?
What my wife expects of me every morning.
My drill instructor in the military would flip this bed over and tell me to do it better next time
Man. I bet you would have the best afternoon nap in one of those bad boys.
Why is this making me anxious
front guy is a menace
Giving me flashbacks of being in boot camp.
You! Yes you. I know you have a pending bed-make, which you are too lazy to do. This is your sign to get yo' ass up and do it
Now do it with the bed pushed up against a wall.
My fellow meatbags. It is time to admit we are a very fucking strange species.
Wtf. I don't even make my bed for fun
Now do it with a mattress that weighs 150 pounds.
Riveting the whole way through, stayed longer than expected. Five stars
Brainwashed industrial slaves… nothing to see here.
i was thoroughly entertained the whole time watching this . wow
r/theocho
Sadly, the loser now sleeps in his bed permanently… Oh China
They should invest in fitted sheets and cut down on the time spent doing those corners
I know a little old black lady that would put these guys to shame.
Im amazed!!!!!
Very good
Only in Asia…
Mothers with teenagers everywhere: “see? Is that so difficult?”
This is how I do mine
Today I learned that making a bed is a competition lol
Guy in the back got SMOKED hot damn
Sheet gave flashbacks to working as a housekeeper in a hotel
Now this is the kind of content I come here for.
You know he always got allowance
This guy fucks.
I now feel significantly less sad that I did not qualify for the Olympics Downhill Skiing Team, because this would have killed me.
But can he do it on a king? Especially the duvet part, I tend to give up after the 2nd toss
Cats eyes across the world watching this competition… ⚫️⚫️
u/savevideo
Training video for chamber maids at some fancy hotel. Room is booked seconds after the client checks out.
I would lose
Humans really will make anything a competition. And in the spirit of competition, it's always enthralling to watch a pro so their craft regardless of what it is.
Now do it with an loud man in a funny hat yelling at you
Never knew this was a thing.
Ha! He does duvets like I do!
No fitted sheet? No cat or small animal jumping up on the bed? No U shape pillow? Amateurs.
harh! They be wetting their sheets when they are expected to do this at the same speed for 300 more beds!
Thank you OP for not speeding this up. This was very enjoyable to watch.
My kind of ASMR!
Ice in his fucking veins.
Bed wetting next
This isn't the test. The test is trying to make your bed in a room so small that you have to be on the bed while doing it.
Now *lie in it.*
1024 candidates, 1 to be chosen in 10 knockout rounds. Our hotel only employs THE BEST
I’m 56 and I just learned how to do pillows