Folding Sheets, or, My Idea Of Hell

[HarleyNana 10]

Why would you fold sheets?????????? :omg: I wash my sheets every Friday, then when my home engineer gets here she puts them right back on the bed....no folding involved.

Look at all that valuable time you're wasting folding sheets, what were you thinking Donna , LMAO.

[the best me 6]

I fold the sheets because it takes me 2 weeks to do the laundry and get the things back on the bed. Me and hubby would end up on the floor with my daughter if I didn't have more than one set!

I had a cleaning service every other week for months when I lost my head and went back to work a few years ago (this didn't last long) and I had to clean before they came! You gotta get your stuff out of the way! It WAS wonderful though. I'd come home and the floors would be clean, the bathrooms, I'd be dusted, wiped down, wiped off, wiped up and it would smell so gooooooood! I'm a stay-at-home mom of 2 now, and I give up on keeping the house clean. It's almost easier when you are gone all day...nothing happens when you are gone! It's when you live in your house 24/7 that things get constantly messed up. Especially with a 3 year old. Dishes 3 times a day are a booger. Even with paper plates! There's always SOMEthing in the sink!

[TexasTerry 0]

Wow, I thought I was the only person that hated folding laundry and never ironed my husbands shirts! Now, the cat on the other hand thinks I'm wonderful 'cause he has this super comfy basket to lay in with soft materials!! lol You all have helped lift a terrible guilt load off my soul! roflol!!

[NJChick 3]

I work full time and my weekends are always cleaning cleaning cleaning which I HATE!!!! so during the week when I get up at 4:30 am I do a load of laundry, every day, yep every day this way at the end of the week I am not cussing everyone in the house out.

When the sheets are done, I roll them in a ball and throw them in a drawer...... yeah I know but nobody was looking

[Marimaru 7]

I hate laundry like almost nothing else. Doing the dishes is second, but at least I have a sink in my house to do the dishes in. I live in an apartment with no laundry hookups, and there's not community laundry. I have to drag all my crap to the laundromat. That seriously happens every couple of weeks, usually when my fiance and I start to wear shirts that we don't usually wear. "Hun, we really need to do laundry tomorrow..." and tomorrow is usually 3 or 4 days after that.

THEN, the laundry comes out of the dryer, we look at eachother funny, then SHOVE it all in the laundry bins with an agreement that we'll fold it and put it away RIGHT when we get home. That works about half the time.

I own an Iron. My mom bought it for me because I didn't own one and I wore a wrinkly shirt in front of her. I've used it exactly once, to appease her. If I have something that I want to wear that is really wrinkly, I'll use it again, but only in that case. I don't Iron things just so that they are ironed. That's why I TRY to put clothes away right when we get home... so they aren't wrinkly.

But I'll agree that clean towels really are the best.

[FunnyDuddies 6]

ok...y'all are gonna hate me. My OCD is really bad when it comes to closets and clothes and sheets. I am the type that needs to have everything folded correctly, placed folded side out, on the correct shelf, in the correct color corordination. I have this folding pallet that i keep under the bed. It folds eveything, and I mean everything, so that it is the same size on the shelf and fits properly, and lays flat. I Iron the sheets, and fold them, and the fitted sometimes takes me 30 minutes, but it is done and when you open the closet for towels and sheets there is no confusing anything. Dark blue towels and light green towels on one shelf. Kids towels and junk towels on another shelf. Sheets and linens and extra pillows on the third shelf. Extra blankets on the last shelf.

and yes, I fold tshirts so they are perfect and do not get wrinkled. like I said tho...its one of the areas where my ocd takes over badly. LOL the rest of my house is insane. the areas where there is a military sense of order is in the kitchen with the food in the cupboards and the dishes, how the dishwasher is loaded, and the clothes and linens.

Kathy....your daughter would love me LOL Emily is a 5 outfit a day girl too. And when she looks for a new outfit she goes through and messes up the drawers like crazy. So what do I do? I dump them out, every time, and start over. I get my little folding pallet out and refold all of the shirts and pants. lol

and no, i am not coming over to anyone's house HA!

[GrizGirl 0]

Give me a ticket on your crazy train funny duddy. I take perverse pleasure in folding sheets, t-shirts, dishtowels.. I don't go so far as to Iron the sheets though. Growing up, one of our chores was to help mom Iron. I can iron the heck out of nearly anything.

I did however, introduce my husband to the joys of the dry cleaner. To me it's worth the 1.49 per shirt to have them cleaned & pressed.

[FunnyDuddies 6]

To me it's worth the 1.49 per shirt to have them cleaned & pressed.

See...another part of my OCD. I can't stand to have anyone else touchmy clothes. I have this weird fear that someone is wearing them when I drop them off. Stupid I know, but it keeps me from sending them in. I will if I have something that jsut can't be cleaned by me, but I hate to do it. LOL

[Stitchy 0]

Amy - ROFL- you need to get a life! I mean, ironing sheets?:omg:

What's a folding pallet?

I love poly-cotton blend shirts. For some reason, the daughters give their dad all cotton shirts. I'm sure they feel great, but they are really wrinkly when he wears them. I Iron about once every 6 weeks.

[barbara465 2]

Oh this thread is funny. I must ask if anyone has heard of the cleaners? They do tablecloths as well as regular laundry. I have a folding board for packing T-shirts and blouses. Is there one for folding sheets? I have two irons and an ironing board. However, I NEVER use them. I send clothes to the cleaners to get them pressed. I have a friend that says I Iron more wrinkles in then I take out and with that its the cleaners for me!

[FunnyDuddies 6]

a folding pallet is this thing that is used predominantly in clothing stores. It is this fabulous partical board contraptionthat you can put clothes and sheets and towels on and it has "wings" to it that you use to fold over the edges of your clothes and linens. It folds everything the same, nice and simply, so everything is the same size,and is flat so there are no wrinkles. It is the greatest invention evar!!! LOL

[barbara465 2]

I went to Yahoo and did a search. There is something called FlipFold that aids in folding clothes. I used something very similar for the first time on a recent trip. I had given them to everyone for Christmas. It made packing really easy. I never thought of using it for towels, sheets, etc. I can't wait to go home and try it to see if it works. Still not sure about sheets, but I'll give it a try.

[MyKdsDad 1]

Donna, do you see what you started?? LMAO

[the best me 6]

and no, i am not coming over to anyone's house HA!

Crud. That was my next question! I can't WAIT till Paula sees this thread. She's OCD about stuff, too. I just wish it for myself! I like to have things folded properly, and not wrinkled, I have just found a way, I guess, to make things "good enough" and run with it. I really do enjoy ironing but it's an hour or two ordeal! So I compromise and fluff the laundry in the dryer so it comes out warm, then hang it or fold it flat. I always fold the towels. At one time I had my linen closet nice and neat. Then hubby never put away the towels according to my plan, and now it's a mess again. I'd imagine I'd let myself have my home exactly in order if I lived alone. It's just hard to do that with so many other people "ruining my groove" (yeah, right, blame them).

Can someone inject the OCD gene in my DNA somehow? I'll never forget the day I realized that "I'm always organizing, but never organized." I was so dissappointed!

My daughter just came into the office and said, "Mom, when are we going to do my bed?"

Here goes, gang. I'll post an updated picture when we are done. Next week, maybe? LOL

[Jachut 487]

I need a shot of that too. Honestly my life is chaos and its all because I'm sitting here and talking to you, not doing what I should be and getting the lunches made for school. I just hate the day to day drudgery.

Oh for a cleaner! Siiiiiigh. But with 3 kids in the house there's always so much stuff I would have to clean anyway before he/she came. I used to pay a lovely lady $24 a week to do a once over, and it did keep me slightly more organised by having to have the house ready for her. But the kids would just come running on through, dirty feet, smearing handprints along the walls as they went, shedding schoolbags, clothes and socks on their way. Out would come the crackers, the spreads, the fruit, before long there'd be crumbs, butter smears, drink spills etc (oh, and they cant get their pee in the toilet for love nor money, I swear they just wave their willies in the general direction as they run by). The clean lasted literally 3 hours.

I'd never find someone else so cheap, it'd be more like $50-$60 a week now. I also used to have a really nice local ironing lady who charged me between $10 to $20 a week, and Mr Accountant made me give that up too, now he bitches that his shirts are never ironed. It'd cost double now!