How to Fold a Fitted Sheet
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I am not a cleanie by nature. But, I love to have a clean house. It frees me up to do the things that I do love. However, laundry is one of the household tasks I actually enjoy. Yeah, call me crazy. There is something therapeutic about seeing a mess of stinky Boy clothes transformed into nice neat stacks. Even if the nice neat stacks last about 32 seconds.
A couple things that my mom taught me many moons ago about laundry:
- Starched and ironed pillowcases feel divine.
- It’s better to match socks as they come through the dryer than to let them pile up in number until they fill a duffle bag that could weigh down the brawniest of seamen. Yeah, you make me laugh, Mom.
- Folding fitted sheets is not only easy, but makes your cupboards look so much nicer.
In case you never learned how to fold a fitted sheet, here’s my brief tutorial.
I used a crib sheet in this example, but if you need to see it larger than a baby bed, let me know and me and my trusty camera man will go back to work.
This works for me. How about you?
well, since we have oodles of cupboard space in our bathroom, the sheets get balled up and shoved in to the lower drawers. Towels are folded neatly in the cupboard part on top. Hopefully no one tries to open the bottom drawers 😉
I have read the directions for doing it that way but could never quite make it work. I think I better understand now. I have a load of sheets to go in the wash today–I’ll get to practice now!
Thanks!
honestly, i have ALWAYS wanted to know how to correctly do these! i usually just crumple them up and hide them away! thanks!
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OK, I’m stupid. I have never seen this done and I’m SO glad I know how, now that I’m 47. I always just seem to wad them up, in an orderly kind of way. NOW I’m a real woman! 🙂
Thanks for the demo!
Kelly
Proud to be a part of this rite of passage. 😉
That’s how my mom taught me 😀 It really is easy, isn’t it!
That’s also how I fold my fitted sheets! I saw it on Martha Stewart about 10 years ago when I first moved out of my parents house. It makes the linen closet look so much better. She even showed how to fold towels. Not sure if this explains it right but fold the towel long ways in thirds then fold it over on itself so you end up with a narrow width. I know that makes zero sense reading my explanation. Just wait for the new video tutorial.
I’m a laundry freak too!! I guess I learned how to fold sheets when I was younger from my Mom.
Looks like several people will have better looking linen closets now 🙂
I tried doing this from a description I read, which I *think* was trying to describe this but didn’t quite succeed. 🙂 I’ll have to try again after watching the video. However, I usually grab the corners of the sheets ABOVE the elastic (where the corner stitching is) and let the elastic part hang down and sort of tuck it under, then fold it that way (you have something resembling plain, i.e. non-elastic, corners). That’s super easy too.
I love the video!
That is exactly how I learned how to fold a fitted sheet- except I learned from Martha and not my mom. Martha folds a wicked nice towel too.
How do you fold your towels?
Bravo! It is so impressive to see someone do that correctly and calmly!