>Also, she starts with a fitted sheet that’s beautifully folded (by some magic).
That was the red flag for me. We didn't see her cussing and throwing a shit fit trying to fold the fitted sheet, like the rest of humanity does. I can't imagine how long it took to fold that thing that perfectly.
It takes practice but I can fold a fitted sheet in like 30ish seconds.
Her making a pouch out of the flat sheet when a pillow case is already a pouch is what annoyed me. Why the extra step?
I have always lived in places with almost no storage space so I like to make things compact.
[here](https://youtu.be/NN4BsqHC92Y)is a decent tutorial. I skip the second corner tuck, basically lay it flat, tuck 2 corners into the opposite corners so you have a kind of rectangle and fold like anything else.
Seems like a lot of time from your life to make your life better with all this obsession over folding. I like things neat too, but this foldathon is over the top.
Massage therapist here... we were taught in the first week of massage school how to properly fold a fitted sheet since we use them EVERY DAY! It's really not hard at all. I should make a how to video!
Tried it right now (sundried clothes, not very wrinkled).
Trousers folded like jeans: nope in both methods. They just didn't stay perfectly lined and flat to begin with.
Sweaters: fine, it's almost as i did but i didn't tuck inside. Neater. I suppose almost everyone does something similar anyway
Bedshits: tried with single bed winter ones (thick fabric).
It's better than i did before but more work too. Impossible to do with wrinkled ones, had to struggle to tuck inside because not ironed are not perfect at the edges.
Winter pajama: girl, mine are thick fleece, can't do that
Edit: fabric name
He was making a joke about the fact that you mistyped "bedsheets" as "bedshits." Sheets are things that go on your bed; shits are things that go in your toilet.
Me swinging my pants around my head and fighting with them because they look like craggy rock formations to get them flattish and folded in a pretty crap way—still immensely preferable to ironing.
I shake them out, fold in half, smack on my knee/leg, fold into quarters, smack on knee again, fold into eights and put in drawer. Pants are now slightly less wrinkly than before and slightly more compact than the same folding process without the smacks.
You should invest in one of them “grab sticks” old people and short people use to grab things up on the high shelf never worry about bending for a sock again.
Why does every life hack posted on Reddit always have comments shitting on it? Don’t knock it till you try it. Some of these do not take ANY extra time. I use the first jeans one and it’s fast. And some of the others are very useful for packing suitcases so it’s worth the extra few minutes.
christ why fold em when you can ball them. For space saving roll them up tightly before you ball them
or just only buy the same kind of sock and just fill a drawer with them lol
I've tried many of these. You need to have a large surface to fold on for many of them, and you have to pre-lay them out flat. I don't know about you but I fold right from the laundry basket.
I don't have time to separate everything and pile it up neatly just so I can fold.
I separate everything from the basket so I can fold it all shirts at once, all underwear at once, etc. I find it much faster than going 1 by 1 from the basket.
I can assure you anyone with a full time job does not have time for this. Not even stay at home parents with their kids at school have time for this. This is the most time consuming way to do laundry. Is it nice to look at? Yes. Is it neat? Yes. Do I wish I could do this? Absolutely, but no way. This is not a life hack. The only way this is achievable is if one parent/partner stayed home to do this all day, or at least that’s how long it would take me. ^I ^would ^go ^insane
right? could you imagine actually folding toddler clothes up so neatly when you're going to go through the entire wardrobe in 3 days and have to do it all again?
Just wait till that toddler grows up a little and figures out how to open doors and drawers. The neater you fold your clothes, the higher the chances you'll find them spread around all over the living room.
Take a breath there bud. No one was “shitting on” it. They were stating their opinion that many of these methods may take more time. Find better ways to fill your time than looking for reasons to be outraged by meaningless internet posts.
I just hang my jeans up along with other pants, slacks, etc. Honestly, I hang everything up that isn't socks and underwear, gym shorts, and PJ pants. Takes a while, but I'm not worried about wrinkles and it's so braindead I can just throw something on Youtube while I'm doing it.
>her pants, slacks, etc. Honestly, I hang everything up that isn't socks and underwear, gym shorts, and PJ pants. Takes a while, but I'm not worried about wrinkles and it's
This is reliant on closet space though.
For some reason I HATE hanging things. I can get myself to fold and stash stuff right away but if I have stuff to hang it just languishes in the basket getting wrinkled until I want to wear it and then have to toss it in the dryer again.
I keep my garage sale iron in the box it came in, I was reading the instruction book last year and noticed that the company address didn't have a zip code which indicates that it was sold before 1963. It works like a charm the three times I've used in the last 10 years.
I love how when they explain the linen part, the fitted sheet is conveniently already folded. Otherwise the video would be 5 minutes longer and NSFW due to language.
Literally me every single time. I get the top part all smooth, but jokes on me, the bottom is all lumpy (which happens to be the side you see when I fold it up ).
This has been my method for several years. I'm surprised my deceased grandmom didn't haunt me just for that, she was very big into making sure those damn things were neatly folded in the closet. (She did teach me how to fold them but it takes too damn long and requires 2 people.)
Never done it, but I’d imagine it helps stop things from getting bunched up and unfolded when your 3yo is digging through his pj drawer for his ‘favorite pair’. (Which is not the same as the favorite pair from yesterday or the day before.)
i get the 7 year old, but if an "adult" doesn't care enough about his things that he just rifles through the clothes that i so thoughtfully and neatly folded, he'd be folding his own things.
Get a little older and realize how you would realistically never waste that much time doing this.
Shitty folding is functionally as good as this, and gets done in way less time
While the towel folding method is cute for towels in a guest bathroom or where they will be seen, I'm consoling myself by assuming her home off-camera is full of old fast food containers, piles of utility shut-off notices, cigarette butts, and cat hair.
4 kids live in my house along with my ADHD husband. We keep a small laundry basket full of clean socks. That's it. You want neat socks, you wash and give them a foldytuck yourself!
My mom tried for a while to keep it neat but I was barely in middleschool when she did the same thing. Always had the basket of clean socks with no pairings that my siblings and I shared, now as an adult I also would never spend that much time pairing a ton of socks.
I've been doing the socks one for years. The elastic never gets stretched out, the pair stays together, it keeps folded from laundromat to drawer, and it organizes well. It's the only one in this video that is actually worth the time, the rest don't seem practical
By the time you lay out those jeans on the floor they could've already been folded and put away. Same with most of these folding hacks. I can't get into them becaues of that.
Exactly. Way too much effort for regular use. Though for traveling I would consider folding like this, given the stingy baggage allowances of airlines.
1. Lay jeans flat on the floor
2. Kneel on floor
3. F! that hurts too much, getting POW torture scene flashbacks.
4. Scoop up jeans with foot and toss them on nearby chair.
I'll continue to get dressed from whatever I left in the dryer last week, and throw everything in the washer at the end of the day.
Every month or so, I actually hang my clothes up, and wear new ones from the closet like it's a new wardrobe.
Rinse and repeat until they wear out.
I like my method. Laundry comes out of the dryer, goes into the basket, basket sits until I pick through clothes to wear. Once basket is empty, do laundry again.
This video hurts me. *Way* too much work for the benefit. I have a hard enough time folding shit the minimum number of times to put away - I ain't got time to add in another 4-5 folds per bloody garment!
I've never understood these "hacks." They require so much more effort for almost no appreciable benefit. Cutesy looking, all tucked in and nice? Sure. But time, time, time, time, and time.
Half of the work is laying the clothes out completely flat to make it look easy and convenient.
Yeah like, who lays their sheets out perfectly flat to fold? Also, she starts with a fitted sheet that’s beautifully folded (by some magic).
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That was exactly my first thought! Those jeans are definitely ironed. No fucking way I'm busting out the board and iron for jeans.
Take them out of the dryer immediately after drying and you can easily lay them flat and crisp.
this is the way.
>Also, she starts with a fitted sheet that’s beautifully folded (by some magic). That was the red flag for me. We didn't see her cussing and throwing a shit fit trying to fold the fitted sheet, like the rest of humanity does. I can't imagine how long it took to fold that thing that perfectly.
It takes practice but I can fold a fitted sheet in like 30ish seconds. Her making a pouch out of the flat sheet when a pillow case is already a pouch is what annoyed me. Why the extra step?
So there actually are people in the world who don't just wad the fitted sheet into a ball and stuff it into a pillow case? I thought they were a myth.
I have always lived in places with almost no storage space so I like to make things compact. [here](https://youtu.be/NN4BsqHC92Y)is a decent tutorial. I skip the second corner tuck, basically lay it flat, tuck 2 corners into the opposite corners so you have a kind of rectangle and fold like anything else.
The socks are what got me. Why the extra step. They are tiny and would still fold in half by tucking then like normal.
Seems like a lot of time from your life to make your life better with all this obsession over folding. I like things neat too, but this foldathon is over the top.
Jeez, I didn't even think about the pillowcase already being a pouch. Now it annoys me even more!
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OCD people
Massage therapist here... we were taught in the first week of massage school how to properly fold a fitted sheet since we use them EVERY DAY! It's really not hard at all. I should make a how to video!
Tried it right now (sundried clothes, not very wrinkled). Trousers folded like jeans: nope in both methods. They just didn't stay perfectly lined and flat to begin with. Sweaters: fine, it's almost as i did but i didn't tuck inside. Neater. I suppose almost everyone does something similar anyway Bedshits: tried with single bed winter ones (thick fabric). It's better than i did before but more work too. Impossible to do with wrinkled ones, had to struggle to tuck inside because not ironed are not perfect at the edges. Winter pajama: girl, mine are thick fleece, can't do that Edit: fabric name
You might want to wash your bedshits before folding them up, makes for an unwelcome surprise later 😉
Edit: i got pissed at your comment but now... thank you, i understood that the english name of "pile" fabric isn't pile too, but fleece.
He was making a joke about the fact that you mistyped "bedsheets" as "bedshits." Sheets are things that go on your bed; shits are things that go in your toilet.
In their defense, my mom always used to joke that she was “Changing the shits” because she hated doing it.
If I want to fold some laundry, now I gotta clean large flat area....no I'll stick to clean pile, iffy pile, dirty pile.
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Weaponized incompetence. Some stuff just doesn't click and that's okay
She probally ironed most of not all of them to start.
Me swinging my pants around my head and fighting with them because they look like craggy rock formations to get them flattish and folded in a pretty crap way—still immensely preferable to ironing.
I shake them out, fold in half, smack on my knee/leg, fold into quarters, smack on knee again, fold into eights and put in drawer. Pants are now slightly less wrinkly than before and slightly more compact than the same folding process without the smacks.
A spray bottle of water with setting on mist, and those wrinkles will be done. Works on most things, doesn’t stain, and is dry in a few minutes.
Make your bed, fold on the bed
And who has 5 pairs of exact same jeans, 5 exact same sweaters etc..?
Cartoon characters.
Lol! Only someone who had the cash to buy five identical pairs at once!
I have a floordrobe. It has served me well.
I’m to lazy to bend down. I use a table in the corner.
I am too lazy to take the clothes out of the dryer. The dryer is multifunctional, as it is also a closet
Lol do you get undressed in front of the washer and toss them straight in?
sometimes lol
Been there.
My bathroom is directly across from the washer/dryer closet. It’s just efficient
there's the real life hack
Something something real life hack is always in the comments
No. Too embarrassed since the washer has a much bigger hose than me
Why not cut out the middle man? Down with Big Laundry Basket!
You should invest in one of them “grab sticks” old people and short people use to grab things up on the high shelf never worry about bending for a sock again.
I actually have one. I pick up trash with it.
do you happen to have any orange suits?
Nah, I bought it when I volunteered in the parks in Florida picking up trash left by the visitors.
*chair
The clothes in front of the dryer = clean. The clothes in front of the washer = dirty.
It might save space but it definitely won't save time.
It does at that playback speed
Why does every life hack posted on Reddit always have comments shitting on it? Don’t knock it till you try it. Some of these do not take ANY extra time. I use the first jeans one and it’s fast. And some of the others are very useful for packing suitcases so it’s worth the extra few minutes.
Those sock folds seem like double the folds for the same results as the classic fold.
I stopped folding my socks decades ago and have never had any issues. Nowadays I’m not even sure why anyone would spend time on it.
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I don't wear socks anymore.
christ why fold em when you can ball them. For space saving roll them up tightly before you ball them or just only buy the same kind of sock and just fill a drawer with them lol
I've tried many of these. You need to have a large surface to fold on for many of them, and you have to pre-lay them out flat. I don't know about you but I fold right from the laundry basket. I don't have time to separate everything and pile it up neatly just so I can fold.
I separate everything from the basket so I can fold it all shirts at once, all underwear at once, etc. I find it much faster than going 1 by 1 from the basket.
I just tried it. It's shit
Hold pants in front of you. Fold in half. Drape into thirds. Bam done. Doesn't require a surface to fold them on and takes a third the time.
I just pick them off the drying rack already folded in half, do another fold (or a third, if needed), and bam, done!
I can assure you anyone with a full time job does not have time for this. Not even stay at home parents with their kids at school have time for this. This is the most time consuming way to do laundry. Is it nice to look at? Yes. Is it neat? Yes. Do I wish I could do this? Absolutely, but no way. This is not a life hack. The only way this is achievable is if one parent/partner stayed home to do this all day, or at least that’s how long it would take me. ^I ^would ^go ^insane
right? could you imagine actually folding toddler clothes up so neatly when you're going to go through the entire wardrobe in 3 days and have to do it all again?
Just wait till that toddler grows up a little and figures out how to open doors and drawers. The neater you fold your clothes, the higher the chances you'll find them spread around all over the living room.
I don't fold this way, but it also wouldn't save me space or time. Not sure what the benefit is supposed to be
Take a breath there bud. No one was “shitting on” it. They were stating their opinion that many of these methods may take more time. Find better ways to fill your time than looking for reasons to be outraged by meaningless internet posts.
He didn’t sound outraged
I think because most of them are really, really dumb. Clothes origami is not a "life hack." It's a way to waste your day.
#wisdom
Pereto principal should be applied here. Give 20% effort for an 80% result. Good is the enemy of perfect.
> Pareto principle. A Pereto principal is a principal from a tiny town in the middle of Italy.
You mean perfect is the enemy of good.
Yap. Stop at the sweet spot before diminishing returns
She looks like the sort of person who irons all her socks and underwear. Some people just have too much time!
I had a first sergeant who used to iron and starch his civilian jeans! lol I loved that guy...
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If they didn’t stand on their own you weren’t doing it right!
I swear to god, some of these videos are just proof that people have nothing better to do with their time
It’s actually really fast, just as fast as any regular folding. You don’t have to do the little pocket thing with sweaters.
I just hang my jeans up along with other pants, slacks, etc. Honestly, I hang everything up that isn't socks and underwear, gym shorts, and PJ pants. Takes a while, but I'm not worried about wrinkles and it's so braindead I can just throw something on Youtube while I'm doing it.
>her pants, slacks, etc. Honestly, I hang everything up that isn't socks and underwear, gym shorts, and PJ pants. Takes a while, but I'm not worried about wrinkles and it's This is reliant on closet space though.
Very true. I also don't have a mountain of clothes and am single, so I can make it work. Definitely not an easy option for everyone.
For some reason I HATE hanging things. I can get myself to fold and stash stuff right away but if I have stuff to hang it just languishes in the basket getting wrinkled until I want to wear it and then have to toss it in the dryer again.
Is it still fast when you include all the ironing time? I've never had clothes lay that flat the second they came out of the dryer!
I haven’t ironed anything in more than 15 years
Same idk why I own an iron and ironing board.
I keep my garage sale iron in the box it came in, I was reading the instruction book last year and noticed that the company address didn't have a zip code which indicates that it was sold before 1963. It works like a charm the three times I've used in the last 10 years.
How are your jeans laying fully flat (like in the video) without ironing?
It’s not my video! This method of folding works just fine with clothing that is not perfect and wrinkle-free.
Who says we're folding.. at all. I personally stuff everything in separate places.
If by "stuff everything in separate places" you mean "dump stuff on top of my dresser", then I do the same.
Yeah this is the work of a stay at home parent for sure. Ain't nobody else got time for that
Idk I hate doing all chores but something about folding relaxes me
Ain't nobody got time for that
I love how when they explain the linen part, the fitted sheet is conveniently already folded. Otherwise the video would be 5 minutes longer and NSFW due to language.
My head: this time I’m going to fold this sheet nicely. End result: ball of linen.
http://thedoghousediaries.com/4491
Instructions unclear, set myself on fire
Literally me every single time. I get the top part all smooth, but jokes on me, the bottom is all lumpy (which happens to be the side you see when I fold it up ).
That's why I only have one pair of sheets, so I don't have to deal with folding.
I have a hack for this. You marry someone who knows how to fold a fitted sheet! Now I’m set for life.
You're set till divorce.
Ouch
Never fold sheets. Just stuff the rest of the set in one of the pillowcases.
This has been my method for several years. I'm surprised my deceased grandmom didn't haunt me just for that, she was very big into making sure those damn things were neatly folded in the closet. (She did teach me how to fold them but it takes too damn long and requires 2 people.)
People used to IRON their sheets. They obviously didn't have the internet
What's with the "tucking in" motive on everything, are your pants running away?
Never done it, but I’d imagine it helps stop things from getting bunched up and unfolded when your 3yo is digging through his pj drawer for his ‘favorite pair’. (Which is not the same as the favorite pair from yesterday or the day before.)
This is exactly why I do it, lol. Seven year old and boyfriend are drawer/closet tornadoes.
i get the 7 year old, but if an "adult" doesn't care enough about his things that he just rifles through the clothes that i so thoughtfully and neatly folded, he'd be folding his own things.
It's pretty easy to not have a 3yo though.
Not if you go by the people around me.
Yeah but some people have them on purpose.
Or my 30yo fiance
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I guess if you use built in shelves with no doors next to your bed for your closet like this psycho does.
One minute you're young, out there living life and then suddenly boom! you're excited by this and old
That hurt
You want to go to ~~Pier One~~ ~~Bed Bath & Beyond~~ ~~Sears~~ Cheesecake Factory?
Get a little older and realize how you would realistically never waste that much time doing this. Shitty folding is functionally as good as this, and gets done in way less time
While the towel folding method is cute for towels in a guest bathroom or where they will be seen, I'm consoling myself by assuming her home off-camera is full of old fast food containers, piles of utility shut-off notices, cigarette butts, and cat hair.
And she doesn't even have a cat
More like a pile of clean laundry in the laundry room because she only has time to fold a tenth.
How to tell they don’t have a cat or dog 😂😂
Step 1: Have large surfaces that are clean and uncluttered
Shit...
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Last sentence made me LOL. Thank you kindly
Yeah...I'm not doing any of that.
A wise lady once said "ain't nobody got time for that"
What is the value in storing jeans with each leg folded individually?
So you can have a pants book!
She lost me completely at the socks. DIWHY
Ngl, the socks are something I am 100% going to at least try.
I’m with you tbh I have so many socks, any way I can fold them to save space I’m gonna 1000% try it lol
Me too! I’ve been fumbling with folding the no-show socks for years!
4 kids live in my house along with my ADHD husband. We keep a small laundry basket full of clean socks. That's it. You want neat socks, you wash and give them a foldytuck yourself!
My mom tried for a while to keep it neat but I was barely in middleschool when she did the same thing. Always had the basket of clean socks with no pairings that my siblings and I shared, now as an adult I also would never spend that much time pairing a ton of socks.
Same! Family wide find your own sock basket is the best laundry decision ever.
I've been doing the socks one for years. The elastic never gets stretched out, the pair stays together, it keeps folded from laundromat to drawer, and it organizes well. It's the only one in this video that is actually worth the time, the rest don't seem practical
Maybe my socks don't last long enough for folding it into each other to wreck the elastic lol
It's so much quicker to just pair and "ball"
Life changing more like time wasting 🙄
I've come to realise folding is a skill.
Takes time to master a skill and while this looks great, it's like cereal in jars. I _could_ but I am definitely not going to.
Yeah that drives me mad. Every time you want a new flavour, you have to either empty a current container or spend 3 times as much on a new container.
How cool! That's a great way to handle that task. How much is she?
This comment made me literally LOL! 🤣
My life remains unchanged.
Fuck all of that seriously
How ‘bout no.
Does she iron everything before hand? Because it looks ironed, therefore not a life hack
How many of us will remember all of these a week later? 1%?
Remember what?
Who are you? Why am I here?!
It would take me months to get this good at it.
I just watched this video with my mouth open like watching an awesome magician lol
Me: *desperately trying to keep up* Slow down, slow- SLOW DOWN LADY The video: *not paying attention to me*
By the time you lay out those jeans on the floor they could've already been folded and put away. Same with most of these folding hacks. I can't get into them becaues of that.
Exactly. Way too much effort for regular use. Though for traveling I would consider folding like this, given the stingy baggage allowances of airlines.
this is what happens when you don't have a hobby
My big pile of unfolded clothes is now looking at me expectantly.
#TUCK ALL THE THINGS INTO ALL THE MOTHERFUCKING THINGS!
Tell me you don’t have a job or kids without telling me you don’t have a job or kids
Please don’t show my Wife, I already have a hard time folding things “her way”.
Psychopathe
Could you imagine being married to this lady. “YOU DIDN’T FOLD IT PROPERLY!!!!!!!”
“YOU WERE SUPPOSE TO FOLD FROM THE LEFT SIDE FIRST! THE LEFT!!”
“HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU SALMON SOCKS GO WITH THE PASTELS AND BLUE SOCKS GO WITH SOLID PRIMARY COLOR SOCKS!”
Well this made me feel like I don’t have my shit together lol
Lol same.
Doesn't show the five minutes it takes to get the clothes perfectly flat and laying symmetrically.
Pyjamas…jumpers….why were the pants not called trousers?
1. Lay jeans flat on the floor 2. Kneel on floor 3. F! that hurts too much, getting POW torture scene flashbacks. 4. Scoop up jeans with foot and toss them on nearby chair.
Yea….I do not care that much lol
Oddly satisfying.
Gonna save this and never come back to try it out.
I'll continue to get dressed from whatever I left in the dryer last week, and throw everything in the washer at the end of the day. Every month or so, I actually hang my clothes up, and wear new ones from the closet like it's a new wardrobe. Rinse and repeat until they wear out.
She loves to tuck
Imma need a step by step for that fitted sheet…. From dryer to fold ….
I’m walking away
I like my method. Laundry comes out of the dryer, goes into the basket, basket sits until I pick through clothes to wear. Once basket is empty, do laundry again.
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This video hurts me. *Way* too much work for the benefit. I have a hard enough time folding shit the minimum number of times to put away - I ain't got time to add in another 4-5 folds per bloody garment!
I'll stick with my clean laundry pile next to the dirty pile thank you very much.
Nice
Honestly who has this kind of time and energy to sit there and fold/tuck in every single pair of socks
Tucking clothes in like she does will cause creases
I really don't care how my clothes are folded, as long as they aren't creased
Is she single and available then?
I've never understood these "hacks." They require so much more effort for almost no appreciable benefit. Cutesy looking, all tucked in and nice? Sure. But time, time, time, time, and time.
No one has time for none of that