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bbernardini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 12:16 PM
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How do you fold fitted sheets?
It's always been a problem for me. What's your method?
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King Coal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 12:18 PM
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1. Scissors
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 12:18 PM
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2. I usually wash them and put them back on the bed that day
But only because I love sleeping in freshly washed & dried sheets.
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 12:18 PM
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3. I try my best. Then I crumple them into a ball and scream.
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Guy_Montag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 12:18 PM
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4. I don't, but then I'm a bloke, I don't fold anything
:shrug:
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pocket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 12:18 PM
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5. well
lay it out as flat as I can, then fold the edge section over on all sides to make it as square as I can. Then I fold the square (rectangle really) like I would a normal sheet.

It's a little lumpy but fairly neat.
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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 12:21 PM
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6. I try and fail.

Just a lumpy kind of rolled up/folded thing is what it turns into . Oh well! :D
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LuminousX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 12:22 PM
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7. I know this
Works best with two people....

Put your hands in the fitted corners, index fingers deep in the corners, and then touch your index fingers together. Fold one side over the other, so one corner is tucked inside the other. From there you can fold the sheet normally.

*this information was attained by countless hours watching Clean Sweep on The Learning Channel.
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 12:23 PM
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8. Can't I use my middle fingers instead?
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No Mandate Here. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 12:24 PM
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10. Only if it doesn't work... <nt>
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 12:25 PM
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11. works ok if you have a table too
once you have all four corners tucked into one, the natural fall of the sheet is so that the "overage" is folded over onto the rest of the sheet. After that you can fold it normally.

I've got it down to a science--when I take my sheets out of the linen closet I actually have to unfold them to determine which is the flat sheet and which is the fitted sheet.

That's one of the things my mamma taught me.
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bullimiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 12:24 PM
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9. ok
fold in half, tuck the corners inside each other.
fold in half the other way, tuck the corners in again.

now all of the fitted corners will be together in one corner.

lay out flat and fold the sides and corners flat.

fold up the rest of the way.
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DarkPhenyx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 12:27 PM
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12. by stuffing them in the bottom of the closet. n/t
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 12:28 PM
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13. roll them up and stick
them in the closet-there`s no way to fold them evenly....
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 12:33 PM
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14. It's a topology issue--other dimensions are involved
aka roll 'em into a ball
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Southsideirish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 12:47 PM
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15. I had a friend who could fold one perfectly while standing up. (I have
to lay them on the floor). The trick is to, by folding under the corners, magically "turn" the fitted sheet into a flat sheet - then proceed to fold it as if it were a flat sheet.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 12:57 PM
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16. There are endeavors at which mankind is not meant to succeed.
Fermat's Last Theorem? Done 10 years ago.
Manned Mars mission? Piece of cake.
Cure for AIDS? Just give us time.
Time travel? We can do it, just after we get that superstring thing right.
Determining whether P=NP or not? We just need tons of paper and pencils.

Folding fitted sheets? No way.
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 01:00 PM
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17. Roll 'em up into a tidy cylinder shape. (nt)
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qb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 01:47 PM
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18. I used to manage quite well with the "ordinary" fitted sheets
(the ones with elastic only in the corners). The new king & queen ones with elastic all the way around are hopeless.
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