Getting the Guest Room Ready for Thanksgiving in an Hour
Someone is staying over for Thanksgiving, and the spare room is currently storage with a bed in it. Think of it less as decorating and more as setting up a good hotel room: a handful of things that need to work. Go through this list in order and it takes about an hour. The bed Clean sheets. Strip everything, including the mattress protector, and make it up fresh. Not the sheets that are “probably fine.” Wash the pillowcases on hot, and if the pillows are completely flat, replace them; a new pillow is about the cheapest hospitality upgrade there is. ...