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Well the biggest problem with this that I see is that you're generalizing from one example. If I shave with an electric (which I normally do) I can feel stubble if I touch my face within an hour, if not right after I shave. If I shave with a wet razor, I feel quite smooth for up to 12 hours. So your numbers vary tremendously. The degree having stubble bothers people also varies tremendously from person to person. As does, I'm sure, how attracted any particular woman is to stubble.
I do tend to agree about cleaning, and I think that's far more generalizable. I always used to argue with my mother that there was little point to me making my bed because I would just mess it up again that night. But now that I don't live at home anymore, I always make sure to make it when I leave, since it won't be being messed up any time soon.
I can even after a wet shave.
There's a comic circulating on Facebook of a kid asking his mother that, and the mother answering “why wipe your ass if you're going to shit again?”.
Well, diminishing returns don't set in until the third or fourth or nth wipe - the first wipe removes some quite dangerous and smelly material.
And on the other hand, making one's bed has zero health or smell benefits that I can see, and won't even impress 99% of the people one runs into - since they won't be in your bedroom noting how unusual it is your bed is made and how very Conscientious you must be.
I roll around a lot when I sleep, and I find making my bed daily virtually eliminates my tendency to pull the sheets off completely any given night. Whenever I do pull the sheets off they end up in a tangle that takes a lot of time and effort to get back into any useful state.
Then in that case, you don't need anyone lecturing you - you will do it just to get a better night's sleep. And in my own case, I find 'made' beds much harder to sleep in.
You're definitely not the only one. If I have to sleep in a made bed, I will carefully unmake it first. Bedding preferences are idiosyncratic enough that declaring one style to be Right is obvious hubris.
For a long time I preferred using a sleeping bag for just that reason.
there might be health benefits to an unmade bed. I heard of one study that found that a made bed was more conducive to bacterial growth than leaving your sheets open to the air.
I remember hearing somewhere that bedbugs prefer made beds, too.
This is why I leave the bed fully opened while I get ready in the morning, and make it after it's aired out a bit. Also, this is way easier since switching to just a duvet in a cover rather than multiple sheets and blankets.
I think I can confidently state this is a question to be addressed by experiment directed by considerable quantity of anecdotes.