Folding Sheets

/ roughwighting

Particular I am, about how to fold sheets

Angled into a square, or a rectangle but I

Muddle along realizing sheets, and life, don’t fold neatly because

Energy, which surrounds all – from creating, behaving, Being,

Loving and longing – is wild and messy and never

A straight line, which makes life a vibrant complex puzzle.

How do YOU fold your sheets?

88 thoughts on “Folding Sheets”

  3. I am fussy about folding sheets as well. I lay them out on the bed and make sure the ends all line up nicely. I have even mastered folding fitted sheets. Does it matter? Probably not, but it makes me happy!

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  4. Flat sheets get folded into nice squares or rectangles. Fitted sheets? What is this “fold” of which you speak? Those get flopped over this way and that, and then shoved into the drawer. The better part of wisdom is knowing which technique is best for which chore!

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  6. My arms never seem long enough to fold sheets well, and as for the fitted ones . . .😂 The way I get around it now, as long as we don’t have guests, is to wash the sheets on the bed and then take them from the dryer and put them right back on. However, i can’t fold tablecloths either.

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  7. I’ve always wanted someone to ask me how I fold sheets! So here you go: I start out determined to fold the fitted sheet into a perfect square and about halfway through, I just bunch it up and flatten it out and then I stuff it into the closet! 🙂

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  8. The flat sheet is easy: Just following the rectangular lines.

    The fitted sheet? I once saw a video on how to do it right, and it seemed easy, but . . . .NOT! Often Hubs, who usually makes the bed, just put the laundered fitted sheet right back on, so it matters not.

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  12. Dear Pam
    We are helpless folding fitted sheets. We gave it up after seeing the instructions online. We just kind of roll them. Not elegant, but the only practical solution we found.
    Wishing you a happy week
    The Fab Four of Cley
    🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  13. Love this! And the timing! Arriving as I’m staring at a fresh pile of sheets…still warm from the dryer. I’ll fold the pillowcases with care but I’ve learned. The blasted fitted sheets get crumpled and compressed and I masquerade my mess by placing sharp-edged pillowcases, neatly folded on top. Good enough! LOL! 😂 ❤️😂

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  15. I have been banned from the laundry room (An issue with red shirt and white towels years ago.) so folding is not how I can relate. I do like the idea of having many ways to fold as a metaphor for many approaches to life. If I were still in the folding business, I think I would just go from the dryer to the bed and skip the folding part. In college that always worked. Fun post, Pamela.

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  16. i have made a decision not to spend one more minute of my time, trying to fold them correctly. this has given me back minutes i can spend doing anything else. no more stress and they’re in a sort of mashed up pile )

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  17. I’m with you. Folding sheets is my least favorite thing to so. I try getting them folded into a square but there are always pieces hanging out. The WORST are the king-size sheets. I get a real workout folding those.

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  20. I wish I’d paid more attention to my mom when she explained how to fold fitted sheets. I love a neat and well organized closet and in order to have that the sheets must be neatly folded! I am better at all of it the older I get, I think. I hope!😂 Love your poem!

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    • Thanks for liking my little acrostic. It’s fun to use our name because as we follow the letters of our name, we find out what we’re thinking about. My closet doesn’t look as good as yours, I’m sure!!! 🙂

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    • Haha. Yes, yacking, yapping and yelping occurs in our household when we try to fold and store our fitted (and even flat) sheets. Let’s say my guy and I come from different perspectives on “neat.” 🙂 🙂

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  24. lmao! This one was priceless. Yes Ma’am, I fold my sheets with great care because they are fitted sheets and always resist folding!

    Actually, I fold my sheets /on the clothesline/ before I bring them inside. It’s a lot easier wrestling with them whilst they’re still hanging than when they drown me in fabric. 😀

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  25. This is too funny (and the comments hilarious)!

    I am one of those who can actually fold a fitted sheet. Not saying it is perfect, mind you, but the finished product is a neat square (who really needs to see the inside, right?)

    Guess that means I am calm and serene on the outside and a mess on the inside!

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    • Aha! You’re the first one to bring up the idea that we can psychoanalyze a person with how they fold their sheets. I like your take on your own folding, but seriously, I don’t think there’s a chance in h— that you’re a mess on the inside. So, that psychology goes out the window (with the sheets??). 🙂 I agree, I thought I’d written a serious poem, but the comments have been extremely entertaining.

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  26. What a lovely thought! Some of the most delightful things in life are messy and usually unplanned, even unimagined. They come from someone or somewhere else. Thank goodness for other people and the world beyond our front door.

    I fold sheets neatly when I do, but I have only one set of sheets for my bed, she I wash and dry them and put them back on.

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    • Hi and thanks so much for your comment. As much as we THINK we want to have our life organized and neat, sometimes the unexpected and even chaotic give us the most pleasure. Great perspective. And smart to only have one set of sheets!! 🙂

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