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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.

Moru · 5h ago

My trick is to wash the sheets, run in dryer and back on the beds. No folding involved :)

jakubmazanec · 10h ago

I fold my fitted sheets in half and then few more times, in my hands while standing. It doesn't look good, but the sheets are always stored out of sight, so I don't care.

But the article is great, especially the ghost joke.

binarymax · 2h ago

Really enjoyed the article and the illustrations. Lots of care went into publishing this.

SilverElfin · 8h ago

I’m not into the repeated cycle of folding clothes or sheets. Just leave them in hampers.

chasd00 · 4h ago

Why would you wash a fitted sheet if it was not immediately going back on the bed? I don’t think I’ve ever had to fold a fitted sheet…

hansvm · 4h ago

It's easy to accidentally accumulate more than you need. E.g., when I got married we each were previously living our own lives. Big things like mattresses we consolidated, but an extra set of sheets is zero maintenance.

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.

cossatot · 3h ago

Because it's for your kid's bed. At 3 AM the previous night, they peed the bed, so you got the other one out and put it on, throwing this one in the laundry room. Then, today you washed it but the one on the bed already is still in good shape.

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.

pavel_lishin · 6h ago

I could not give less of a shit about folding fitted sheets. I ball 'em up individually, and toss 'em into the drawer where they live, next to the folded top sheets.

marai2 · 5h ago

ratfactor - you’re doing God’s work by teaching us how to tackle the demon that is the fitted sheet!

snozolli · 7h ago

My mom scolded me when I was young, telling me that I needed to know how to fold fitted sheets because women care about that sort of thing. This made me dread washing sheets.

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.

navigate8310 · 8h ago

I don't fold my clothes because they'll eventually be worn out.

AvAn12 · 9h ago

An excellent explainer article!

baxuz · 9h ago

I just roll em up

colechristensen · 3h ago

while not at all complete advice, the short version is "put the 'fitted' corners into each other then fold as normal"

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

jonstewart · 9h ago

Just wad it up and throw it in the closet.

abakker · 8h ago

Jam all the sheets in one pillow case for the set. Folding is…not my thing.