Pickles by Brian Crane for August 04, 2024

I fold them somehow, not pretty but it works!

Imdaboss less than a minute agoI strip the linen from the bed … wash it … dry it … put it back on the bed. I don’t worry about folding the fitted sheet.

I fold mine with no trouble at all. I also know how to make the bed because fifty years ago this summer I was one of two male candystripers in a class of about twenty, and it’s one of the things they spent a lot of time training us on.

Including how to make the bed without having the patient get out of it. The training also taught us how to put a fresh pillowcase on a pillow without holding it under our chin. And to fold square corners, because they didn’t have fitted sheets.

Threatening sheets is a sign of early-onset senility, Earl….

There are YouTube videos that teach you how to fold a fitted sheet and it really does work.

I usually wash and dry my fitted sheet, then put it back on the bed. But if I do need to fold one, I don’t find it difficult at all. I even know how to make hospital corners using a flat sheet for the bottom sheet, although I don’t do that. I use fitted sheets.

I have two techniques. One’s almost easy and you can do it standing by the bed. The other involves duck tape and driving over it with your car. No “sproing” effect… but a LOT more work.

why wash em?

just gonna get dirty again

I once saw an internet video on how to fold them. I need to see it again.

Sweet revenge.

Every time I buy a set of sheets, I wonder how they get them into that little plastic bag!

Just Say “NO” to the Fitted Beasts … ;-)

I just put them back on the Bed

I don’t let my husband fold sheets!

Why didn’t they fold them TOGETHER?!

My wife can fold them and fold them quite nicely. My daughter says it is some sort of witchcraft.

I use the bedposts to hold 2 corners; then 4 corners; then all 4 corners on one post. Works.

I launder all the towels and sheets in our house. I like them a certain way because when finished I feel like I’ve accomplished something. I realize how the law of diminishing returns is playing a larger role in my 75 years, but I take good feelings where I can.

My sister knows how to do this. . .I always “let” her fold the fitted sheets. It’s her speshul talent. . .

It’s really simple: Find a corner and put it over one hand. Move along the edge until you find the next corner. Match it to the first corner: inside to inside, outside to outside. Once all four corners are stacked, shake it out and fold.

I’m afraid threats won’t work, Earl! Just throw it in the drawer!

I slit the sheet

The sheet I slit

Upon the slitted sheet I sit

(say this three times fast, preferably before the first cup of coffee)

My way isn’t perfect, but it’s better than looking like a wadded up pup tent. Which, not coincidentally, is how mine used to look.

I don’t fold them, just put them back on the bed.

I’m more of a towel folding kinda guy lol

I don’t even TRY to fold them. I just ball them up, literally, and put them on the shelf. The saying “That shirt looks like you slept in it”, is true. Your going to sleep on them and wrinkle them up, so why bother folding them nice? Plus, when you pull them tight, most of the wrinkles disappear.

While I had three sets of sheets, I washed the set I had been using then put them right back on, therefore no folding necessary.

Earl, Earl, Earl. You rolled the towels because they take up less space when rolled instead of folded. It works for sheets as well.

And, they’re the best when you refill oil in your car, but forged to install the drain plug first.

I just take the sheets and stuff them into the matching pillow case

Been there, screwed that up. :)

Well, that’s why they are called fitted sheets. They give you a fit.

Folding fitted sheets is yet another case where the harder you try the less successful you end up.

Just shows to go ya, Earl needs more practice.

Mine are “fitted” but they don’t stay that way. Sloppy.

I roll the sheets up and put them in a pillow case. If the linen closet police take away my folding privileges, that’s OK with me!

SHE probably can’t do it EITHER

I agree. Fitted sheets can be a real PITA to fold because they have no corners like regular sheets.

Our headboard has two cubbies with sliding doors. They are perfectly sized to hold sheets. The folded flat ones & pillow cases go in one cubby. The balled-up fitted sheet goes in the other.

It is not as difficult as everyone makes it out to be.

I tried it a couple times and gave up

Stuff the fitted sheets into their drawer a few times, and having failed appreciating your mate’s folding preferences, you will receive either acceptance or a beatdown…it’s your call.

I fold about 3 times, then wad them up into a ball. Too much bother! LOL

I just fold and fold and fold and it still looks like its never been folded.

You dodged a bullet there, Earl. If you would have succeeded in folding that fitted sheet, then sheet folding would be you responsibility from now on.

I have a dirty laundry basket and a clean/dryer basket; after that rotten sheet is washed/dried, I keep it in the bottom of the dryer basket til the next sheet day. Ergo, no more frustration of the non-foldable sheet!

If it isn’t going right back on the bed after being washed and dried, then I fold it into something resembling a rectangle without too much excess sticking out. Life’s too short!

Folding anything is a waste of time. Even if it needs to be put away in a drawer just roll it instead. Quicker and no creases.

Back in the old days, being able to fold a fitted sheet was proof of witchcraft.

Fitted sheets are the worst invention ever. As a well-known Tolkien character once said, “we hates them, Precious!”

Come on Earl. Break the fourth wall. Tell Opal to look at panel #4. >:-D

I don’t fold. I wash, then out of the dryer, back on the bed.