AIBU to have started folding towels the Anthea way?

[Morgause]

I clicked on a link in the Anthea/Grant thread. I knew it was a mistake as soon as I clicked. I emptied the tumble dryer last night and folded the towels the Anthea way. I couldn't stop myself.

There was a link to folding T shirts beside the towel folding video. I'm so afraid I may weaken and find it again.

DH viewed the towel folding with some bewilderment and wondered if we'd suddenly moved to Stepford. 30 years of slatternly house-wifery blown away in an instant. I hope there is a way back.

I have bought a Sheldon T-shirt folder thanks to this thread. I hate you all.

A mumsnetter was on her TV programme and was vile to her off camera. I have never liked her and liked her even less after I found that out !

I've always folded towels like her.

And the lesson to learn here ladies.........it doesn't matter if you fold his t-shirts perfect, and the bath is scrubbed clean......

You're still likely to split up if you're he perfect housewife.

Just clicked on the link out of curiosity and OMG! I already do most of these things and have never even watched any of her TV programs.

I am Linen cupboard Ninja ..............

oh dear, i am a little bit jealous of her airing cupboard! i periodically reorganise mine and can be proud of it for a day . . . until the kids need a hiding place or dh want something from the bottom of the pile!

I think the lesson to be learned also is 'once a cheater, always a cheater and it doesn't matter HOW you fold your bath towels, if your husband left his wife and kids for you, then he will probably do the same again to you at some point.'

But at least if your marriage goes tits up you are safe in the knowledge that everything else is perfect.

Snort

lol ! Folding a tshirt neatly and flatly has always been referred to in our house as the Benetton Fold as they were, I think, the first shop that had piles of immaculately folded clothes here

I once saw a poor Primark employee given the task of refolding all the T Shirts customers had unfolded. It was a Saturday afternoon and she was losing the battle big time.

I roll my towels. they look pretty!

Oh my god you have just made me watch that now. The towel folding is a bit ridiculous. The woman's airing cupboard was just a bit of a mess in the first place and you certainly don't need to go to all that trouble. Although I am feeling rather smug as I already put my duvet on by the method she recommends.

I've realised I fold towels the 'Anthea' way but with an additional half fold at the begining....we dont have an airing cupboard just a small cupboard in the bathroom so they are folded to fit the gap

Now I have just watched that and I imagine it takes extra time, does it not? I fold all my towels lengthways in half and then lengthways in half again. That way, you unfold one fold and they go straight on the rail. I can't understand people who fold in half widthways

That makes no sense at all!

You can make the Sheldon t-shirt folder with an old cardboard box

"ANTHEA TURNER PERFECT HOUSEWIFE - HOUSEKEEPING" what madness is this? i roll my towels, easiest way to store them, when i hang them i fold them as she does so you dont see the edges. and they pay this woman for this common sense article? poor womans Martha Stewart

Without the criminal record you.

I roll hand towels

Nigel I remember those rows of perfectly lined tops so well, this is why I was desperate to find out if there was an "official Benetton" way!

I fold towels like that, my husband showed me how! He is a bit particular with some things, I remember getting back to his mum's house at drunk at 3am and him refolding all the towels she'd washed the night before...

Another vote for rolling towels, then stick them in a nice basket - look good and practical.

I roll ds's t shirts.

Well my t shirts have never looked so good lined up in the drawer.