I've had enough of this sheet

[penfield]

Why the hell do we bother trying to fold fitted bedsheets? It never works. Sure, you can get a team of four to try and match up the corners, but no matter what you do it always comes out as a crumpled, irregular polygon. I don't understand why we can't just wad it up into a ball and shove it in our linen closet. It's going to get wrinkled anyway. If you're the type of person who cares about wrinkled sheets, you're probably going to care enough to make your bed, in which case the fitted sheet won't even be visible. I would estimate that I've totaled at least a few hours of my entire life trying to fold fitted bedsheets – time that could have been better spent talking to my mother, or eating an ice cream sundae, or picking my nose. Well, I'm done. I urge you all to join me in this boycott and savor how much sweeter your life can be without this simple low-level frustration.

Comments

Re: I will not join!

[hbinc.livejournal.com]

ERD has not endorsed Marnie's School of Sheet Folding. In fact, I fully support Enchanted Pants' position that it's useless trying to fold fitted sheets. Village_Twins pimp-folding technique for t-shirts, though, is a winner.

Re: I will not join!

[enchanted-pants.livejournal.com]

I thank the gentleman for his support. While I think Village Twins' t-shirt folding technique is fairly nifty, I am too accustomed to my own folding procedures to incorporate it into my laundry regimen.

Which gets me to thinking: why do people bother to fold things at all? Let's look at this logically:
- a folded shirt should theoretically contain no less volume than a wadded-up shirt; the mass and material are constant. We can therefore stipulate that it is not a space-management issue.
- no matter how you fold a shirt, it is going to have creases in it. Folding is merely a way of formalizing and standardizing creases. Conventional thinking suggests that these formal, well-defined creases are better than lots of little tiny creases (as might be obtained by the wadding-up process). But I see no real reason why this conventional wisdom should hold true.

I think, in a perfect world, the ideal clothing storage system would allow us to lay all of our clothes perfectly flat, with no folding necessary, or allow us to hang our shirts without getting the little bumps in the shoulders where the sleeve starts to droop over the hanger. I hate that.

Re: I will not join!

[(Anonymous)]

A folded shirt does take up less room than a wadded-up shirt. Anyone who has packed a suitcases knows this to be true. Fewer crumples mean fewer pockets of wasted air. In addition to saving room, the idea of folding is to minimize creases.

Also, Marnie will advice you to use the proper hanger for each item to avoid having the "little bumps in the shoulders where the sleeve starts to droop."

Re: I will not join!

[smithie98.livejournal.com]

I had no idea that my school of Sheet Folding had hit such a nerve. Clearly a mandatory class needs to be implemented for all visitors to the Leavidefer B & B.