this is my mother. everything is so neat and well placed. been trying to learn from her since i was a kid but everytime i do it, it is just crooked! >:(
Yes! Especially with fitted sheets. My mom can fold them into a perfect little rectangle every time, despite the round corners and elastic, but when I try they just become a shapeless blob.
Thank you. My wife has taught me several times and every time I forget immediately afterwards and now cannot admit I don't remember how to do it & have to carefully time laundry folding to make sure she's there to "help make it easier". I shall save this and study it on my day off tomorrow.
What you really need to do is fold, and then purposely unfold/mess up, and then fold, a single sheet about 10 times over.
Then set a timer, come back again in half an hour, and do it all again.
Learning once and being like "aha! So that's how I'll do it in 2 weeks!" is a recipe for failure
Thank you for this.
That’s a useful guide. Though I personally found this guide more attuned to my abilities.
When you cover your mattress with the sheet, the top corners of the mattress form a rectangle. Thats the rectangle you are folding.
You gotta fold based on the corners of the bed, not the lining. Match up the points where the stitching ends, and use those as the corners to fold normally.
Keep spouting those funny words magic man!
Stupid science bitch can't even make I more smarter
No, it's actual magic.
For me it's those foldable little bags for shopping, how can she make them so neat? I mean I can watch her doing it and still am not able to do the same
Fold once in half and then roll.
Put one rounded corner into the other corner. Your brain will see the sheet afterwards and immediately know what to do.
You’re welcome.
Fold from the stitch ends, not the elastic.
Then the elastic will be hidden inside an otherwise square sheet that can then be folded.
I don't even care with fitted sheets, its going to get stretched out flat mostly anyway.
I'm sorry to tell you this, but your mom's a witch and we need to burn her.
The ability to properly fold a fitted sheet is evidence of witchcraft.
Fitted sheets are the invention of Satan. Literally unfoldable. They can go where all the missing socks live.
You don't have to use fitted sheets. In Italy they just tuck in the flat sheets, and put another flat sheet and/or just a duvet on top.
You only say that because you've never had to deal with properly tucking flat sheets and dealing with the inevitable shifting on a regular basis.
I did flat sheets for my elderly parents. Those suck slightly less but still suck.
I’ve even tried these elastic bedsheet clips from Ikea.
she is perfect in this
His mom is a great lady, isn't she?
Because your mom has done that thousands of times. She's literally an expert.
10,000 hours tshirts.
That's why I don't fold, I just hang them in a wardrobe on coat hangers.
I stopped folding things. The last time I’ve folded something it turned into a knot that I couldn’t untie.
Beidou spotted
Try changing your name. That’s what worked for me.
My husband watched a bunch of folding technique videos 😂 and anytime someone is folding at a clothing store, he watches for a second to see how they do it - always says “the best way to learn is to watch a professional” lmao
How are you at wrapping presents? That's the real test.
I've never been able to get my bed set up the way my mother did it. She was in the army and IDK they know how to make a damn bed.
My attempts have never managed to get the sheets to just stick right. I'm a tosser so the sheets tend to get yanked and pulled and I have to fix them every few days to straighten up. Never happened when I lived at home. Those corners were armor. They didn't budge and I have no idea how she did it.
Beidouuu
Watch some YouTube videos
Why iron then fold, when you can tuck and roll?
Most modern fabrics don't even wrinkle anymore
Everything from dress shirts and dress pants only buy if it’s the kind that all I gotta do is throw in the dryer to get perfect results. I will never go back to the military lifestyle of ironing shit ever again.
This.
Buy one shirt of a certain brand and test how it looks and feels after a trip through normal wash and the dryer.
If it sucks, never buy from there again.
If it is good, but every variety that you could conceivably use for he next 5 years and don't go shopping for shirts again until they wear out!
This has been my strategy for years - which is necessary because shirt fashion for some strange reason favors "ugly" most years, so I have to buy when there are finally some decent colors/patterns available.
See also: Dishes that don't survive the dishwasher
That’s a generations old thing. My grandparents met when the world realized that dishwasher safe dishes was the way to go.
Also, who irons a t-shirt? I'd understand if you took it out of the drawer and it were wrinkly but just fold them out of the dryer and they'll be fine.
Fuck folding laundry. All my homies hate folding laundry.
Everything on hangers except for socks & underwear
And shorts. It's easier to fold in half than hang.
Are you… me?
I also choose this guy's me.
It's easier to fold in half than hang.
What about folding in half THEN hang...
If you hang it as soon as the wash finishes, you can just take it straight from the line and it goes straight into a drawer.
Our iron is getting rusty in the loft for the last 10 years. The only time I used it was on my wedding shirt.
If it's gym shorts I roll them, if it's khaki shorts or something like that I fold them once or twice and put them on the shelf.
Shirts all get hung everything else gets randomly thrown in the drawer
All socks go in the sock box. All underwear go in the underwear box.
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🎶Stuck in the middle with you🎶
Gotta at least pair the socks first, unless you have all the same type of socks. Speaking of I need some new socks.
Maybe if my wife alloted me more than 12 inches of space on the rails in the walk-in closet! 😭
This is the way.
Must be careful not to stretch collars on the hangers and though
I roll everything up - it stays less wrinkly, stores well, takes 2 seconds.
Roll up how? I need a system or I'll just be balling shit up, and it'll be super wrinkly
My two reference points for rolling are joint and burrito. Which is your method closer to? Have you considered rolling entire outfits together?
For shirts, I fold in half, tuck sleeves, roll. For pants I fold in half, roll. The way I roll them is just grab at the top and spool them upward kinda alternating hands.
I've never done anything fancy with it like put together an outfit.
Bro you're still folding laundry you're just doing it military style
Yeah, soon as he said tuck sleeves, his method was just as hard as regular folding. Sleeves are part of what makes folding awkward for me.
Tank tops 24/7.
kinda yeah, but I could never really get any fold other than first fold to work, so I ended up rolling them. It's just easier and faster for me... If you got like really good at flat folds you could probably do it that fast but I feel this is way way easier.
So burrito, gotcha. (I make bad burritos.)
For real tho, thanks! I just did laundry today and haven't felt like folding. I'll give this a go.
This is why I use a clean basket and dirty basket system.
Same, and by clean basket, I mean bedroom floor
Nah man, dirty clothes go on the floor. Clean clothes go on the bed or other surface "to fold later" until you wear them.
I hang all my shirts and fold my pants. Easy day.
I hate folding laundry, my wife hates doing laundry. We have an amazing system. I do it, she folds it.
We both feel guilty as shit because we feel we’re each getting over on the other one lmao
I have almos never folded laundry unless it’s Nicole clothes. 90% of my shit is just shorts and tank tops and they’re never wrinkled from some reason. When I was single and living alone, I just left all my clothes in the dryer and put my dirty stuff right in the washer.
Folding laundry > ironing cloths
all day everyday.
Ya!
And who irons cotton t-shirts?
I pay to have my laundry washed and folded for me. It is the first thing i promised myself i would do if i “made it.” I am so happy to have that gone from my life, and i have a great relationship with my laundry people, too! Enriching all around!
As a man who takes care of his own laundry and knows how to do all the things… I found this fairly correct. At least as far at what I see in my two boys who are adults. 😂
Its funny because in my house it's the exact opposite. My clothes are all neatly folded, all socks paired, organized, everything fits perfectly.
My wife...no paired socks, underwear all in balls crammed in to the point where they're jumping over the back of the drawer and end up inside the back of the dresser behind the drawers...about three times a year I have to pull all the drawers out to fish it all out. Half her jeans are hung, the other half are in drawers, and the only differentiation between the two is whether there is room in the drawer or empty hangers available when she's putting the clean clothes away. Tshirts, long sleeve shirts, sweaters, button downs, hoodies...just shoved in wherever there's room, no rhyme or reason whatsoever.
It gives me serious anxiety but I gave up long ago trying to fix it and instead we just have an agreement that I dont fuck with her "system" and she doesn't fuck with mine. I fold her clothes and put them neatly in the basket for her to put away later. I know they're just going to end up in a ball but hey, I tried lol
Sounds like you are describing my recent marriage of 28 years! 😂. I blame it on the US Army
You know now that you mention it, I was an Army brat...guess all those weekends I was ordered to field day my room before doing anything else rubbed off after all lol
You should see her car! It ain't dirty really, but so much shit just everywhere lol. God forbid you have some sort of drink you'd like to place in a cup holder, you're going to spend the majority of the trip relocating shit first, all the hair and makeup accessories, sunglasses (so many sunglasses like WHY), 40 half empty bottles of hand sanitizer, unopened snack packs of nuts and crackers, dog treats...and that's just like, in the center console. I opened her glove box once and it was like that scene in Willy Wonka on the truck with the foam except instead of foam it was a mountain of random paperwork and restaurant menus and books and mail and 645 pens and packages of chopsticks and prewrapped plastic cutlery that exploded into my lap...took me a ridiculous amount of time to shove back in and get the door latched.
I love my wife with all my heart and wouldn't change a thing about her but holy shit her 'organization style' gives me severe panic attacks when Im forced to interact with it loooool
Say what you will, I bought one of those laundry folding flipboards off Amazon after seeing a character on Slasher dorkily use one. It’s incredibly satisfying to get all your t-shirts folded the exact same way.
I’ll have to try just chucking them into the drawer afterwards next time to see if the feeling sticks.
Using these so much in retail actually taught me how to efficiently fold by hand.
Bought one of those, worked wonders.
In that it annoyed my wife so much she now does all of the folding.
Just the sheer existence of the board, or all those perfectly folded clothes?
I made one of those out of foam-core presentation board, from an article on Instructables (search for: shirt folder). I've had it for years, and it still works perfectly, except that my shirts still look like the 2nd phase of the video...
I made one out of cardboard and duct tape. Works a treat!
This is my wife and I.
However, roles are fully reversed in the kitchen. She can’t scramble an egg, while my kids think I’m Gordon Ramsey’s (more handsome) sous chef.
I'm just gonna leave this here. It won't help with the ironing, but it's great at the folding part.
OH MY GOD IT WORKS
AFTER A FEW TRIES IT WORKS WITHOUT EVEN HAVING A SURFACE TO LAY IT ON
It works just as well if you skip the ABC malarkey and just fold it along that line first, and then fold the bottom part of the shirt towards the collar, then do the last fold of the remaining half of the shirt. I tried learning this "trick" and realised it's straight forward to just fold along the lines.
Can confirm that this works well. You can also change the orientation if that makes things easier. Normally place it like you would do and use your left hand to top-left and fold to bottom left. And use your right hand to go to middle-left. So your left hand folds over your right hand and then you pull the right hand up. It takes a few tries to get it right since your clothes might be wider or longer, but overall its an easy way that works for most shirts.
People iron their t-shirts?
People iron?
I don't even own an iron or ironing board...
I'm 2 years off iron AMA
I own an iron, but it's for crafts.
Maybe stay at home folks or something lol. Nobody got time for that
Omg I feel this in my soul, not right. I still have a soul?
You soul haver you
I appear in this post and I don't like it. (Seriously, why does this happen to me?)
I sent this to my husband and he said "fuck that's too real".
Man i dont care what anyone say.... folding cloths is magic.
Not the slow ironing. Watching this makes me never want to iron again. I see my aunt looking at me iron and now I know what she's thinking.
My ex-wife used to work in retail. She doesn't even have to use the iron. She just tosses it across the room and it lands perfectly folded and wrinkle free.
That's a proper superhero skill, imo.
Shit this is way to close to home
Shoutout to the twin sisters from Kubrick's The Shining
Was just folding clothes and I'm incapable of having a shirt fold the same. I just squish down the pile so it looks a little better.
I think mines defective then because I seem to be the one following her around the house re-folding everything because from what I can gather my missus has absolutely ZERO concept of 'order' and neatness and as much as I love the woman with all my heart it fucking drives me insane!
What sorcery is this
No but this is actually like so weird. Whole life it’s been like this and then suddenly one day nothing changes about my approach and I can do it?? Like the skill was unlocked just by aging???
I'm in this video, and I don't like it! 😠
That little tap at the end got me. XD
My laundry stays in the basket like God intended.
As with most skills, experience trumps all.
This is why I do not bother with ironing T-shits... 😆
Yeah T-shirts won't crease unless you left them in the dryer and didn't fold them while hot. Hang drying they won't crease because... they're already straightened by hanging.
And that is exaclty how I do it! (We do not belive in dryers here, in Poland...)
Same, but I do use a dryer in Australia for stuff like underwear and socks. Everything else it's just a waste of electricity, and it ruins the clothes over time. I know some people who put their jeans in the dryer 💀
Witchcraft is an art.
...and witchart is a craft 😆
I am reporting this video, because I am in it and I don't like that. lmaooooo
I know this is a joke, but do people iron tshirts?
lol come to my house and see what a woman with adhd can’t do.
Is it just me or am I hearing a very faint Discord notification sound around 5-6 seconds in?? Is that just part of the song?
Yep, definitely the Discord notification ding! Maybe whoever added the track didn't bother to add the soundtrack properly, and just recorded it with their phone.
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What sorcery is this.
I've seen a few people do this sketch, I would feel weird basically stealing someone else's idea and posting it.
What’s the soundtrack?
Yes that’s the one! Thank you.
Practice makes perfect
I'm just like that man rn
That's why I stopped caring and just do it. Looks however it wants it doesn't matter, it's either hidden in a drawer or something or on me. Nobody sees it like that
i'm a woman and I have th same problem bro :( why does it not look neat.
And this is precisely why i dont even own an iron or an ironing board.
this must be magic
Dude, just throw it in the dryer while you're taking a dump
Exactly right media ✨
Nah, rolling is the way.
This is why my missus does the ironing, it takes me ages and needs doing again lol.
Haha, all men are dumb and incapable of chores.
Who irons their T-shirts??
Ironing really isn't that difficult.
It is boring as fuck though, which is why as soon as I found some non-iron shirts that actually lived up to the name, my ironing board was consigned to the darkness and never to be seen again.
What's with the idiotic music?
I thought people with kids just live out of the laundry basket 80% of the time?
Skill issue
All this does is confirm that men are pathetic.
This is my gf, everything I do is never perfect. I try but what are you going to do. I did my best.
If you find yourself living a life where you're ironing t-shirts, then you've done something horribly wrong. Time to re-evaluate your life decisions.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
How do they stay flat?!
Holy shit that's funny!!
Is it just me, or does Hank Green look like a male version of her?
I taught my man how to iron 22 years ago. I have the board and iron set up. He irons the hanger mark out of his pants
My husband is the lady and im the dude😭 i can’t fold to same my freaking lifeeeee
This is so true!!
What is the name of song?
LMAO!!! This is so my wife and I.
Visual proof!
Weaponized incompetence
Perpetuating pointless stereotypes
Exaggeration for comedic effect.
Women when it has been five(5) seconds since they pathologised a man not being a perfect emotionless gendered silhouette:
If a shirt I own gets wrinkles when I just throw it in the drawer pile of other shirts I get rid of it lol
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