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Thanks to this topic on Mumsnet I am starting to get my house in order (Flylady). I think I might be a bit obsessed though. I have just watched this and am so excited. Have I lost it completely??

hey hey... brill.. I am going to try this..

personally I like this handy hint [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5AWQ5aBjgE&feature=related here]

here

That is cool

Well that is 2 1/2 minutes of my life I will never have again.

How I do it works just as well.

you've definitely not lost it! I'm abit anal when it comes to folding stuff, have always wondered how to fold them properly but could never figure it out! now I'll be able to have a super neat airing cupboard! thanks for posting the video!

wow!!! I am impressed with both of them I must get out more which is very unlikely.

it takes him two and a half minutes. where tf in my hectic schedule am i going to find two and a half minutes to do a job that can be done half arsed in 10 seconds?

I was doing something like this for a while, but it's a bit of a faff. Now I roll them, which has the added advantage that you can tell easily which are the doubles and which are the singles.

Just back from shining my sink. The t-shirt one is cool. We have a talent show for our work christmas party, shall I demonstrate my two new skills?

I tend to take my fitted sheet, fold it in half and then sort of whirl it about madly in the air until it forms some kind of ball shape and then I shove it in the linen box under the bed.

But I'm going to try this.

THAT is impressive.

The way I do it is take it off the bed, wash it, dry it and put it straight back on the bed thereby avoiding folding or ironing.

I like your style, ABD.

I must be quite sad because I actually watched that and found it interesting - attempting to fold fitted sheets has always been a bugger. Not saying my life has been transformed or anything, but you know, I am going to try it out!

I can fold a fitted sheet in about 30 seconds, but that's because I keep having to rebag the ones that irritating customers take out of the packaging at IKEA... *glowers at guilty parties*

I have exceedingly nicely folded towels as well

lol i can fold a sheet of A4 paper precisely in thirds thanks to admin job and can tie parcels beautifully thanks to a stint wrapping speciality bread in a boulangerie summer job.

that is wondrous - previously followed MarkStretch's technisqe.

I loved that tshirt thing and now have a perfectly folded tshirt beside me because I was sad enough to watch it over and over again until I'd mastered it

Thanks for this - although it looks like it's a bit fiddly. I'm sure I'd need to practise loads to get it right. All my fitted sheets end up screwed into balls in a drawer. Will try next time

Oh, he's very slow! My old cleaner showed me how to do this. She had previously worked in a 5 star hotel and everything to do with beds was a speciality of hers. She does it the same way, but standing up with the sheet hanging down until the final folding, so you just bring your hands together inside the corners then flip them over - way faster!

yes I roll them too (fitted sheets) - didn't know there was a folding method!

bonfire you made me lol because I too can fold a piece of A4 paper in seconds into perfect thirds to fit into an envelope - I had never thought about these skills I was picking up while working in an office

Despite being borderline OCD my fitted-sheet-folding tends more to the MarkStretch school than the YouTube version - however I think I may be converted.

(And I am enthralled at the Japanese T-shirt folding!. I thought I was pretty good at knowing how to iron and fold everything A4 (military training!) but that is much more impressive

Impressed at T-shirt folding technique, not so much the fitted sheet, takes too long, surely!

Exactly, that's how to do it (but obviously I'm faster)

Wondering how to get DH to watch it without him thinking it's a criticism of his "style".

The t-shirt one is fab, almost wishing I hadn't folded all the laundry already. Will be practising tomorrow.

i'm sorry but life is way too short for this kind of guff

Im terrible for taking off, washing and rying and puttng back on bed before the end of day just eaiser that way imo