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Back by popular demand, another homemaking vlog. This time: how to fold a bath towel, according to my dear Aunt Cass. It definitely works for me.
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My mom folds your way and I did while growing up. 🙂 I like mine folded differently because they fit on our shelves better.
Either way is great as long as the fold faces outward! People wouldn’t dare NOT put the fold facing out, right?! 😉
-Lauren
I fold my towels in thirds but lengthwise and then I take that and fold it in half and in half again (for the bigger towels). This way there is still a nice fold to grab onto and pull out from the shelf like you do but you can hang them directly on the towel rack without having to completely unfold and refold.
So proud of you! 😉 Its how my Mumsie taught me, and how I’ve been doing it ever since. I get frustrated when I see my towels folded otherwise. 😉 LOL
I fold towels just like you! My father was the linens & housewares buyer for a major department store for years and that is how he taught us, and how they did it in his store.
I fold ’em just like you! And if you notice, bath stores have their towels folded the same way on the shelves, so we must be doing something right!
In the guest bathroom, I do towel rolls instead because they’re “on display” on glass shelves, and towel rolls are the only way they fit neatly.
I fold my towels just like you do. That is how my mom taught me
I must say that your way is nice for sitting on the shelf, but I have to do mine differently. I hate having to re-fold my towels to get them on the rack, so I fold mine in half lengthwise first and then in half and half again. This way I can just unfold it part-way and it is already in half to go on the rack. My husband does it more like you and I have been complaining for 5 years that he makes more work for me when I put them on the rack. I will hide this post from him 🙂
I worked for 4+ years in the bed/bath department of a department store, so I had plenty of practice folding linens. I learned how to fold towels there, and your method is exactly how we would fold the bath-size towels. Hand towels are folded in thirds lengthwise and then folded in half. That is still how I fold towels, and after almost 10 years of marriage I think my husband finally is getting the hang of it! :o)
Love this post! I have used this question as a introduction to classes where we discuss everyone’s gifts and talents. Basically, I ask a few people to demonstrate how they fold their towels… usually there are different ways in the group. Then I go into how we all accomplish the same task – folded towels – but in different ways. None are “right or wrong” just different. Same as using our gifts and talents to accomplish a goal… it may be done a different way by someone else on a committee but the outcome is what is important.
As for how I fold my towels… I fold them the best way to fit in my linen closet! Thanks to some of the responses, I am going to have to try rolling my beach towels to use less room.
I was taught by my mother when I was young (I noticed that she did not fold her towels the way her mother and sisters folded theirs so I asked her where she learned – she was at a friend’s house and liked the way her towels looked and asked her friend to show her). My mother folded her towels opposite way that you do (1/3 long ways, 1/3 again, then 1/2 and 1/2 again). So that was the way I was taught and I still do it that way to this day (and always will). They look very nice on a shelf (no raw edges showing), they stack very well and it is so easy to grab the fold.