Saturday, September 03, 2005

Domestically disabled

How does one fold the bedsheets with elastic around the edges? They don't lie flat. There aren't corners to match up. My elastic-rimmed bedsheets always just wind up in a wrinkled heap next to the flat foldable ones and the pillow cases. Can anyone fill me in on the proper technique? Perhaps there's trick to storing them neatly without folding?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

this has peeved me for years...best I can do is sort of fold the elasticized edges in. then you have an octagon-esqe thing then go from there. It still aint pretty though and it pretty much takes two people to do it.

Anonymous said...

This is how I usually fold the fitted sheets: Fold the longer sides, putting each elastic corner inside the other. Then combine so all four corners are one. Because there is a thick elastic corner the connecting edges want to fold in. Let them do so because then you'll have more of a square. Continue to fold as desired. Are you a tri-folder or an in-half-folder? Let yourself go!

Anonymous said...

I just kind of haphazardly fold them into a mass of sheet. I figure if somebody has the honor of getting in my bed, s/he won't mind some wrinkles.

RB said...

Huh... I guess dudes don't fold sheets. None of them had any comments to offer.

Why am I not surprised?