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Please help.

I don't care if you guys make fun of me.

Yet I know 1 FReeper will help me deal with this one stupid thing that PMOff.

KV keeps me busy and so when he takes a nap or a volenteer comes to read/visit I am down the hall trying to tackle the laundry folding issue.

There just has to be a trick to folding the twin fitted sheets.

1 posted on 09/11/2007 3:14:10 PM PDT by Global2010
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To: tiredoflaundry

You think you got problems ping...


2 posted on 09/11/2007 3:15:13 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Global2010

Let me grab my socks!!!!

BRB


3 posted on 09/11/2007 3:15:28 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: Global2010

Do what I do.

Look totally helpless. The wife sighs loudly and folds them herself.

Problem solved.


4 posted on 09/11/2007 3:16:42 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Global2010
I know this isn't an option, I hate these things myself. (For folding that is.) It go so I contemplated cutting the corners off so I wouldn't have to deal with it.

When my wife get home from bringing my daughter to dance I'll ask here advice.

FReegards, Yankee.

5 posted on 09/11/2007 3:18:52 PM PDT by #1CTYankee (That's right, I have no proof. So what of it??)
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To: Global2010

You know how hard it is to fold the fitted sheet with those elastic corners?? Well here’s the step by step (video) to a neat sheet!

http://viewdo.com/now_viewing.php?id=140


6 posted on 09/11/2007 3:19:32 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Global2010

Q: Do you also have to deal with storing pillows as well?


7 posted on 09/11/2007 3:20:28 PM PDT by #1CTYankee (That's right, I have no proof. So what of it??)
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To: Global2010
I feel your pain, those bottom sheets are a bastard!

Mrs. Doomonyou does those, I don't get involved.

9 posted on 09/11/2007 3:20:52 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat lead.)
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To: Global2010

if you hold a fitted corner over each hand and then place the fitted corner from the other end over the first fitted corner you will have the top folded in half with the sides of the fitted sheet turned in accross the top you are holding up and down each side..
Lay on a flat surface and finish folding.


10 posted on 09/11/2007 3:21:45 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: Global2010

Imagine that the sheet is a rectangle, and that the points on each corner where the seam to fit the corner starts (toward the center of the sheet, not the the edge) are the corners of the rectangle. Spread the sheet out, folding about 6” all around “in,” as the sheet would naturally tend to go because of the corner seams, making the sides into straight lines. It should now look like a rectangle; you can fold the corners over like wrapping paper on the end of a package, if you want to be really tidy.

Now you can fold the rectangle easily into the size you want, and it will be relatively flat when you put it on the shelf.

On the other hand, if you have the kind of cheap sheets that have elastic all around, that you can’t ever figure out which is the long side and which is the short side ... as far as I can tell, there’s no way to fold those neatly without a commercial steam press. I suggest washing them and putting them right back on the beds :-).


11 posted on 09/11/2007 3:22:17 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Says the text so divine, 'What is life without wine?' ")
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To: Global2010
http://interiordec.about.com/cs/howtos/ht/foldfitted.htm http://www.ehow.com/how_6067_fold-fitted-sheet.html
12 posted on 09/11/2007 3:23:10 PM PDT by Teflonic
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To: Global2010

the link at #6 shows in video what I tried to say in text at #10...amazing a video for everything....now if I can just find the one for a Democrat loss...


15 posted on 09/11/2007 3:24:58 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: Global2010

I am not an expert but this works well enough for me.

Have the sheet open (flat) and fold in half lengthwise (or width wise up, I haven’t folded a twin in ages) over with the corners tucked into the other corners. Now it looks like two layers lying flat. I move the ends opposite the corners in so it makes a straight line that looks like a regular sheet. Now you can fold the entire length over again and then up in halves or thirds til you get a nice little rectangle.

It’s hard to describe without pictures or doing it in person. Once you get the corners tucked into each other you can fold it down to whatever size you like.


17 posted on 09/11/2007 3:26:27 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah (Catholic4Mitt)
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Best I can do:
Fold the sheet in half the same you would the top sheet, then tuck the corner elastic into the other corner elastic, matching it up. Hold onto it and fold the sheet in half again. And again, until small enough. The trick is holding onto the elastic corners.


20 posted on 09/11/2007 3:37:45 PM PDT by RDTF (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but Democrats believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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To: Global2010
I saw something on a television show about how experts fold the fitted sheet. But, it didn't work for me. I still can't fold those things.

I know I'm not any help ,but how is the King doing?

21 posted on 09/11/2007 3:40:09 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: Global2010

http://www.ericsiegmund.com/fireant/archivesmt/001246.html

Here are a bunch of suggestions. I think you could have written this New Level of Hell entry. The comments are hysterical, too. Good luck! I just ball mine up.


25 posted on 09/11/2007 3:50:53 PM PDT by A knight without armor
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To: Global2010; Allegra; Tijeras_Slim

I’ll be in the shower.

Washing my socks.

Let me know if anything happens.


27 posted on 09/11/2007 4:03:33 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Global2010
The wife says.

I can't help, I hate them.

So much for the master. ;-D

28 posted on 09/11/2007 4:05:38 PM PDT by #1CTYankee (That's right, I have no proof. So what of it??)
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Folding Shirts

(It's in Japanese, but you get the idea)

29 posted on 09/11/2007 4:05:54 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Ancient Ninja T-Shirt folding technique
30 posted on 09/11/2007 4:07:26 PM PDT by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
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What is wrong with folding it the same way as a flat sheet?
This has got to be a female thing.
37 posted on 09/11/2007 5:01:41 PM PDT by SGCOS
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