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Can you fold a fitted sheet?

April20

April20

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Random question, I know. But I just changed the sheets on our bed. When I got the clean sheets our of the chest and saw the fitted sheet it got me wondering how many people can really fold a fitted sheet. I can't. DH can. His grandma taught him. When he folds a fitted sheet, it looks like it just came out of the package. When I fold a fitted sheet it looks like I folded a fitted sheet. So DH folds all of our sheets. I mean, they wont even fit properly in the drawer when I fold them. It's awful. He's tried to teach me on several occassions and I always try, but they always look awful. I'm beginning to think fitted sheet folding is an art.

Can you fold a fitted sheet or am I just in the minority of those not able to do it well?
 
When I was younger everything in my life had to be perfect.

Today IMHO it is not worth the trouble.
I just wad them up and put them in the cupboard.
Somehow the world does not come to an end.

Frankly, it feels wonderful and liberating to not care about certain things any more.
If you care, so be it.
Some people even iron their sheets.
 
No I cannot do it properly. My MIL can do it perfectly however. ;))
 
I truly didn't know it was possible until I read this post. I just always thought everyone sort of wadded it up... Now I want to see a picture. Of one that a real person folded!
 
I have my own method that usually looks okay, but my king-size sheets are still a struggle.

I wish I could act with Kenny's reckless abandon (really, I do!) but I'm so anal about folding. Some day I will get over it... But I don't think the nightmares of my mother visiting and critiquing my messy drawers will ever go away :errrr:

Martha Stewart has an interesting method. I have some sheets to fold today. I may give it a whirl. http://www.marthastewart.com/article/how-to-fold-a-fitted-sheet

REPORTING BACK: King-size fitted sheet folded in about three minutes... and it looks decent! Not as great as the link, but better than if I had used my standard sheet-folding method.
 
I can because Martha taught me. I have her Homekeeping Handbook and she has the same guide to folding fitted sheets in there that Pils just posted. It works!
 
I roll them up like newspapers and store them in a pillowcase.
 
I used to do the wad it in half, sling half of it over your arm and roll it up and then shove it in the cabinet and pray it didn't fall out when I opened the door.

I should have taken a picture of the one I just put on the bed. Perfection. I'll take a pic of the sheet I stripped off today folded once I get it washed.

I can fold the heck out of a pillowcase though!

ETA: I just went and looked at the link to folding... that's basically what DH does.
 
Great thread!!!!


And Kenny, was it a certain event or a certain age that allowed you to 'let go' of the perfectionism? Mine was the magical age of 40! :bigsmile:
 
Mom can. Sometimes I figure out somewhat how to do it and then can't remember what I did to get it to look somewhat decent. I don't bother messing with making it look nice anymore-it's getting put away until it's time to be put on the bed so I don't care what it looks like!
 
I used to be able to fold a fitted sheet perfectly, but then when I started teaching we hired a 'cleaning lady' who does a remarkable job. :appl:

Oh, I just thought I'd mention, for kenny's benefit, the fact that when we were first married I ironed everything - underwear, towels. You name it, I ironed it. That was very important to the home makers of the 60's and early 70's.

Don't tell anybody that I was crazy enough to fold diapers. :eek:
 
I'm all right at it, but they definitely don't look like they just came out of the package. Our linen closet is tiny so I have to fold sheets into "packages" or they won't fit -- I fold the fitted sheet and pillowcases, then fold the flat sheet into a long strip and wrap it around the rest of the set. Hubby is of the wad-and-stuff school of thought, it drives me crazy. It takes up twice as much space and then they fall off the shelves and stop up the linen closet door so I can't open it. Did I mention that it drives me crazy?
 
Uppy said:
Great thread!!!!


And Kenny, was it a certain event or a certain age that allowed you to 'let go' of the perfectionism? Mine was the magical age of 40! :bigsmile:
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Around age 40 spent a few years in psychoanalysis.
Best gift I ever gave myself. (Who knows, maybe it was just turning 40.)

My spices used to HAVE to be in alphabetical order. :roll:

For me it was . . . Keeping order on the outside to compensate for the chaos inside.
You work on the inside stuff and the outside stuff falls into place, or just matters less.
I'm sure there are some folks who are at peace with everything and still fold their sheets.
 
Not at all but my husband can.....he's in the military and he can fold or iron anything :twirl:
 
kenny said:
Uppy said:
Great thread!!!!


And Kenny, was it a certain event or a certain age that allowed you to 'let go' of the perfectionism? Mine was the magical age of 40! :bigsmile:
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Around age 40 spent a few years in psychoanalysis.
Best gift I ever gave myself. (Who know, maybe it was just turning 40.)

My spices used to HAVE to be in alphabetical order. :roll:

For me it was . . . Keeping order on the outside to compensate for the chaos on the inside.
You work on the inside stuff and the outside stuff falls into place.
I'm sure there are some folks who are at peace with everything and still fold their sheets.
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:!: Yep, at 40 I sought out a psychologist to help me come to peace with several personal issues too. I fought doing it for about 10 years, but it was the best year and a half of growth!

Kenny, I think you need to be my gay husband! Would your partner haver a problem with that? Use the factor that I'm into vintage cuts diamonds, not step cut, so I'll be no competition there. :naughty:
 
Uppy said:
Kenny, I think you need to be my gay husband! Would your partner haver a problem with that? Use the factor that I'm into vintage cuts diamonds, not step cut, so I'll be no competition there. :naughty:
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Hahaha. :bigsmile:
 
kenny said:
Uppy said:
Kenny, I think you need to be my gay husband! Would your partner haver a problem with that? Use the factor that I'm into vintage cuts diamonds, not step cut, so I'll be no competition there. :naughty:
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Hahaha. :bigsmile:
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Is that a YES or NO? :bigsmile:
 
I do it the Martha Stewart way and it still looks like a mess. Oh well! We don't really have extra sets of sheets, so most of our fitted sheets are on the two beds, and not folded in the closet anyway.
 
I cannot fold anything. I try, I fail, my undies end up wadded in a pile in my drawer. DH takes pity on me and folds most everything else and makes the bed (another thing I am really terrible at- usually when I make the bed the cats end up under the blankets and everything is all askew). So no. I cannot fold fitted sheets.

DH doesn't fold fitted sheets either. He is of the wad & stuff mentality with the sheets, they live on a shelf above the washer & dryer in a pile like that.
 
kenny said:
My spices used to HAVE to be in alphabetical order. :roll:
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Kenny - NOTHING in my house is in apha order, or much order of any sort, truth be told.

But I CAN (and usually do) fold a fitted sheet, thanks to Martha.
 
I think Martha Stewart is the third best thing that ever happened to the psychotherapy industry, the top two spots being held by the P-word and the R-word.
 
Ugh, no I cannot! It kind of bothers me, but the only time I really need to fold our sheets is when I'm transporting them. I've tried watching videos on how to do it and I still can't hack it!
 
Why do you transport sheets?
 
I'm not great at folding fitted sheets. I've tried tucking one corner into another one and then folding over the sides, and that helps make the sheet look a bit better.
 
I need a video reference. I read the MS directions but I don't get it... :confused:
 
I can't fold anything neatly.
I blame it on being left handed.
 
PilsnPinkysMom said:
I have my own method that usually looks okay, but my king-size sheets are still a struggle.

I wish I could act with Kenny's reckless abandon (really, I do!) but I'm so anal about folding. Some day I will get over it... But I don't think the nightmares of my mother visiting and critiquing my messy drawers will ever go away :errrr:

Martha Stewart has an interesting method. I have some sheets to fold today. I may give it a whirl. http://www.marthastewart.com/article/how-to-fold-a-fitted-sheet

REPORTING BACK: King-size fitted sheet folded in about three minutes... and it looks decent! Not as great as the link, but better than if I had used my standard sheet-folding method.
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I can now! Thanks for the link.
 
MissMina said:
I can't fold anything neatly.
I blame it on being left handed.
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That's funny.
I can't fold anything neatly either and I blame it on being right handed. :lol:
 
Nope never could fold a fitted sheet.
 
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