Can you fold a fitted sheet?

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I know all the necessary steps, tucking the points into one another and such, but I'm really crap at this. I'm always afraid the housewives at the laudromat are laughing at me.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 31 December 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

My wife got the Martha Stewart method down, but I haven't mastered it yet.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 31 December 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

Since I have Martha Stewart sheets, I should probably focus on that method.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 31 December 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/life-hacks/how-to-fold-fitted-sheets-117844.php

― naus (Robert T), Saturday, 31 December 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

Folding sheets is, like ironing underwear and posting to ILX, one of those things that Just Don't Need Doing.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 31 December 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

I don't even understand those instructions.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Saturday, 31 December 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

I just burn mine and buy new ones.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 31 December 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

that link is ass since it doesn't have any pics, aside from one which is just included for *decoration*.

anyway, my reply is: no i can't.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 31 December 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

The Martha Stewart Method

And remember, it's foolproof. So if you can't do this, you're sub-fool. Some serious short bus material.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 31 December 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

bollocks to that.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Saturday, 31 December 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

we only have two sets of sheets. one stays in the hamper until the other one has to come off, then we wash one and put it back on the bed. this keeps us from ever having to fold them. problem solved.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 31 December 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

I'm a sub-fool. I really do not get it.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 31 December 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

I just fold them willy-nilly, any old crazy-ass way, so they get all balled up in a nasty wad. I like 'em that way. [juts jaw and looks defiant]

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 31 December 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that's the best way to fold them.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Saturday, 31 December 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

The Martha method does not work for me. I get so f'ing frustrated folding fitted sheets I nearly tear them in half and fling them out the window. :( compromise - don't change them.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Saturday, 31 December 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

Ball them up and sit on them. Or tuck a flat sheet in as your bottom sheet. My mother used to do that. We never had fitted sheets when I was little. Were they not fucking invented yet?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 31 December 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

When I wash my sheets, I take them off the bed, wash and dry them, then put them back on the bed, thereby bypassing the need to fold them at all. My sheets are one area I sacrifice "variety" for convenience.

― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 1 January 2006 04:54 (twenty years ago)

Fold em as best you can. When they guilt you out is the time to ignore them. Daft Punk is playimg at my house.

― Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 1 January 2006 05:00 (twenty years ago)

Wow, I just recently learned the "Martha method" from a friend who said that was her grandmother's way...until then I gave up and smushed them into a square-shape that I could fit on the shelf.

― Laurel (orion), Monday, 2 January 2006 03:14 (twenty years ago)

I hate fitted sheets, and only buy flat ones - king sized for a queen size bed. They tuck in fine for a bottom sheet and there's less fighting over the covers with the co-sleeper. I'm convinced they last longer this way too.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 2 January 2006 04:40 (twenty years ago)

No.

It isn't possible. Hopeful wadding is the best you can do. Wrap the flat sheet around it and anybody who notices the difference is being too damn nosey.

― Hey Jude, Monday, 2 January 2006 06:05 (twenty years ago)

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