What is folding laundry?

Tops and jumpers all get hung in the wardrobe. I hate drawers full of clothes all folded up, they all come out when you pull one thing and as most of my clothes are black, I've no idea what is what. Wardrobe rail essential.

Jeans get folded as I put them onto the shelf in the wardrobe. I don't own joggers... closest I suppose would be gym clothes and pyjamas, which do go into a drawer quickly folded as I put them in. They don't crease/doesn't matter if they're creased.

My son's clothes I fold in half and then roll and they go in baskets in his drawers. I think I got the idea from Marie Kondo? Or someone similar. Anyway it works for now while his clothes are small, they don't look creased and it takes seconds. Plus he's four, it doesn't matter if he looks disheveled. I suppose I fold as I go, but it's very quick.

Eh? I don't iron 😂😂😂

I mean the plastic baskets you transfer clothes around the house in. We have a few Ikea Blaska ones.

Isn't a laundry basket for dirty clothes?

And an ironing basket for clean clothes 😂

Clothes here come out of the drier or off the line/airer and get put away immediately. I don’t iron so it is all just put away. I’ve never had any piles of laundry around.

Same @AlltheFs. I fold them straight out of the drier or airer or else they get creased in the basket, and I can do this with a flat surface. Do not know the last time the iron saw the light of day. Maybe once a year maximum.

I do however have piles of folded laundry laying around 😁

Because they're folded ready to go away? Rather than banging everything into a basket and then re-folding!

I don't really fold anything. But I do grab laundry off the line when I have a couple of minutes while working at home, or when my child is in bed, and chuck it all scrunched up into a laundry basket where it will sit for 2-7 days before I get around to actually putting it away. I take clothes out of that laundry basket when I need them. Currently there are two laundry baskets in the living room and one in my child's room.

I hate putting clothes away.

My tumble dryer is in a dark, cold garage/shed on the side of my house where the bikes, lawnmower and other assorted stuff is kept. No way am I attempting to fold everything in there. I usually take it all out of the dryer in one big pile into a wash basket. Shove the stuff from the washing machine into the dryer and then shove a new load in the washer.

The stuff from the dryer is then taken into the house to be folded into the ironing basket in my nice, warm, sunny bedroom.

‘Little mind’ is probably correct then if you find this hard to understand. life must be tricky

My mind is completely blown by this too.

I fold as I take it out the tumble dryer or line, put into different piles depending on who is belongs to. And then put it away straight away or into the basket for ironing.

What a waste of clean laundry throwing it into a basket not folded!!! My ocd would go mental 😳😳😳😳😳

I’ve never got it.

Clothes here come out of the drier or off the line/airer and get put away immediately. I don’t iron so it is all just put away. I’ve never had any piles of laundry around.

I hate housework, have really low standards but I’ve never understood the drama around laundry. We do a load most days. It gets washed, dried and put away. At the most it might be on a clothes airer for 24hrs but then put away. Where do the piles come from?

We did cloth nappies and still use reusable wipes and have a nursery age child that uses a lot of clothes.

How do you fold standing up and without a flat surface? I fold mine carefully on a table. I also sort of flatten it as I fold by running my hand quite firmly along it to smoothen it. As a result, it looks almost ironed. I don't have a big table next to my line or rumble drier. How are you folding yours?

People can’t fold things whilst standing ? 😮
If I can fold a king size duvet cover that’s come off the line standing up then surely people can manage t-shirts etc.?

Yes - but, you are 'folding laundry'.

I take it off the line, fold it (which i class as folding laundry) and then it gets put away. Sometimes i do 4 loads a day (bedding, towels and clothes) so i would say - i'm folding laundry as that is what i am doing!!!

I fold items as I get them out of the dryer. If I put them straight in the basket from the dryer, then have to fold them later it feels like I’ve made two tasks out of one.

I agree. I didn't know this was a "thing"!

Take washing out of machine, stick on airer or hang it up to dry, fold when dry and put away eventually, or just wear it from the pile

Note the lack of ironing involved. If it needs ironing, I ain't buying!

Perhaps it's because I don't own a tumble dryer? Though last time I was on holiday and we had one, I took everything out of the dryer and folded it at the same time.

Surely it's not that difficult to understand it takes longer to fold as you take stuff off the line and people might not have time? Laundry is the stuff I quickly squeeze in between other jobs. Last night I had 2 minutes to grab 3 loads off the line before I ran out the door.

Obviously if you have time it's better to fold as you go but that's rare for me during the week.

Cos folding as it comes off the line our out of the dryer takes ages. So I grab it and it goes in a bit tub which I take into the lounge and fold / put into piles while I watch TV.

People who fold each item as it comes off the line - where do you put it once folded? In a basket? On an outdoor table in a pile? Or do you have seperate baskets for seperate people? That sounds like a long time standing up in the garden and walking between baskets / table / piles / house.

I like my way.

Other than listing your laundry I’m not sure what point you’re making. Pointing out that other people wash things less frequently? Yes, I should have included that in my “things I can imagine and therefore don’t start threads failing to comprehend them” list.

You might have less total laundry, but perhaps unlike the OP you can imagine that other people have more/are dirtier and therefore wash more stuff, rather than starting a thread about how you are literally unable to comprehend that other people might do a task differently to you.

The rest of us tend to wash pants, for example, and wear more than one pair of socks a week. But you can always start your own smug thread about how you fail to understand that washing pants is a thing, I guess.

I love folding but I hate ironing lol
i just wish I was faster 😆

Oh that’s great thank you. Now I know what I can get for my birthday 😂

My butler would resign if I expected him to do laundry, that's the house maids job 😱

What's stopping you ? 😁

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I don't iron, I fold when things are dry off the line or from the dryer so there's no need. I don't actually mind ironing, I just don't have the time. I do make sure that the washing machine/ dryer aren't turned on unless I'm going to be there to hang it up or fold it as soon as it's finished though.

Well there's two of us, I do two washes a week. They consist of 2/3 pairs of jeans, 4/5 tops, a couple of pairs of socks and a bra. Bedding and towels every other week. If I've been to an event there might be an extra dress or dry cleaning but that's pretty much it.

I wash things when they're dirty, not when they've been worn once.

I am confused... everyone except the bung it in a drawer brigade are folding their washing. There is the fold it as soon as it is dry & put it away people and the save it and do it in one hit people. The only thing that is different is the point at which you do it. It doesn't save time per se as the activity is still being done it is just a matter of timetabling. You can do lots of 2-10 minute bursts or spend half an hour or hour doing it. Unless there is a special time warp when you stand by the line / dryer that means that it is faster to fold the washing than if it is sat in a basket for a day.

I will say that doing it in one shot saves time on taking multiple journeys upstairs to put it all away. You can also do the 2 second shop fold on t-shirts if you have a flat surface.