Did u master folding linen already?

I never did. I fold it a dif way each time, I find it so hard
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Yes! I figured out how to fold it so that it fits on the shelf perfectly! More of a science than an art. But like art, I'd find it hard to explain, right side of the brain. or is it left? Confused

My trick is after folding it the regular way, meeting the corners in the length, then again in the width or opposite, , I fold it in threes- one flap in to the half mark, the other flap in to the half mark, then fold both flaps together, I do this in the length and width too. Much neater and more manageable.

The same for towels.

It's neat how I can fit the linens to a narrower shelf area, it just piles a bit higher, but my shelves have too much height, so fits nicely.
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Diamond Member Joined: Apr 16 2007 Posts: 2952

I bought a book that details every aspect of organizing. There was a pictorial step by step for folding linen. When I first gto married, I used to fold laundry with the book open in front of me, now it is second nature. (I also had to follow directions for boiling eggs, I was that undomesticated.)

Don't laugh, but I did a google search on "folding linen" or rather "folding fitted sheets" and took my instructions from there... It gets better with every time, but it's a big pain in the neck especally as I have to iron my linen as it creases quite bad.... But at least my linen closet looks more or less oranized.

Diamond Member Joined: Apr 23 2007 Posts: 3308

My sister uses a trick that she saw in the Hamodia. After folding the sheets, put them into a matching pillowcase so that your sets stay together, and look neater on the shelf.

But doesn't the pillowcase get all bulky then? and how do you fold the pillowse with a sheet inside?

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it took me a while to figure out how to fold linen. My friend and I experimented one night, till we got it down pat. Once all is folded I take one bed of linen (sheet and 2 pillowcases) and kind of fold the quilt cover around it. If you wanna be real fancy then you tie the whole thing together with a ribbon (I don't, not my type. I go for the simple and clean look) But it looks gr8 in the closet, cuz all u have is 2 quilt covers w everything in it, instead of everything piled ontop of eachother, w pillowcases and all...

Posted: Thu, Jan 10 2008, 9:36 am Post subject:

I think I figured out how to fold sheets when I was 10 ... never been a problem for me - although the fun used to be with having 2 of us and meeting in the middle ...

the harder of peices is the fitted sheet ... which I fold in half and then flip in the fitted part one inside the other ... after making that fold, I simply fold that as if the folded edges were the real edges ...

then piled up with the closed/folded edge come the set - neat and tidy ...

now if only I didn't leave em in the laundry basked Shocked

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Platinum Member Joined: Mar 07 2007 Posts: 10429

Green, you an me both--I never considered this a problem. The only problem is that other family members fold stuff any which way (on the rare occasions when they fold at all) and then I refold them to be consistent with e/t else in the closet. Recognizing this as a bit too broomstick-up-the-back for perfect health and fearing eventual descent into madness manifested by such behavior as attacking the newspaper boy with an axe for dropping the paper off at an acute angle to the door rather than parallel to it, I try to resist the impulse but always fail miserably. Knowing that some of the towels are folded in sixths to fit perfectly on the shelf while others are haphazardly folded in fourths and hang over the edge is as distressing as having a bit of underwear stuck in a body crevice.

Sheets are more difficult b/c my wingspan is less than the width of a good-quality flat sheet, and there is usually no one around to help with the folding. Occasionally I dragoon ds into participating in the charming domestic dance of grab this corner, grab that corner, step back and back and back, arms out, shake! Corners together, shake and turn! Meet yore pardner in the middle, I grab the top, you grab the bottom. Swing yore pardner, dosido! Well, maybe not the dosido, which would get the sheets in a twist. Smile

I would like to thank my camp counselor summer of 1968 for teaching me the secret of stacking items on a shelf with the folded edge facing outwards.

The most obnoxious household encyclopedia I ever read was Home Comforts by Cheryl Mendelson (that’s her husband’s surname-- she spent her childhood slopping pigs on a farm in Appalachia.) Not that she doesn’t have some excellent advice, but her tone throughout is” my way is the ONLY CORRECT way”.If there’s a universally correct way to fold underwear and towels, it’s news to me. Seems to me ‘twould depend on the dimensions of your shelves and drawers. Her book is chock-full of papal edicts such as “household cloths must be bleached perfectly white. Cloths with faint stains are acceptable only for cleaning the floor and only if the stains are so faint as to be imperceptible from a distance.” Rolling Eyes

I had to stop reading the book because when I would read it during my daily commute, my growls of outrage and snorts of contempt were alarming the other passengers.

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This is the book I used.

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I fold the linen and leave the fitted sheets for dh to do....I dont think I'll ever get that
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Senior Member Joined: Jan 31 2008 Posts: 248

Its not that its a prob, I just happen to be pretty short. Its kinda hard to fold the quilt covers when your a shrimp!!!! Very Happy