Every time my wife and I fold our fitted sheets after a wash, after we've fumbled our way with folding it, I say "one day I'll lookup how to do this properly."
Imagine my elation upon seeing this on HN. The article captures the exact level of snark too.
Turns out that no woman I've dated has cared about whether fitted sheets are folded properly, nor have any of them known how to fold them. You know what they do care about? Cleanliness of sheets.
Bookmarked anyway. Maybe I'll ingrain the method before reaching my deathbed.
Bachelor hack: you don't need to know how to fold fitted sheets if you only have one set of sheets.
I'm married and only have one set, lol. Honestly I can't understand why you would have more anyways. I only have one bed, why have more sheets than I have beds!?
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32...
So we hang clothes outside in good weather, and otherwise use heat-pump washer-dryers to get things partially dry, and then hang them around the house. So you will typically need to sleep while sheets are drying.
Also, how to fold a tee shirt:
It's also nice to be able to make the bed right away. Maybe you want to take a nap while the clothes finish. Maybe you have time now and not later (and can defer the folding to "later" as well). You could have one of those shitty high-efficiency dryers that incorrectly detects whether your clothes are dry and doesn't have an override to apply heat anyway, requiring 12h of air drying to actually have dry sheets. You could not have a dryer or otherwise prefer air drying more generally.
You could also have an extra set of sheets for a pull-out couch or other sort of place where you don't normally waste the space having the bed always down on the ground.
Etc. Life is complicated. There are 8B of us, and we're not clones.
Or, you have sheets of a few different colors, each paired to a comforter with a different weight that is changed seasonally, or biweekly, depending on the preferences of you and your bedmate.
all four fitted corners need to be nested inside each other, you do this by folding in half one direction then the other popping them inside out as necessary
* Stolen from the article, but totally apt.
1) hire a fitted sheet folder 2) buy a supply of new fitted sheets (which come folded) and simply discard the used ones.
Alternatively don’t wash or remove the used fitted sheets, simply keep putting your new fitted sheets over the already-installed ones. When this becomes too bulky, discard your existing mattress and buy a new one and start fresh.
jakubmazanec•6mo ago
But the article is great, especially the ghost joke.