AIBU to be slightly annoyed by towel folding

[WholeNutt]

Or lack of, I showed dh how I personally fold our towels so they look neat and fit on our smallish bathroom shelf. He asked how I did it, I showed and we folded the rest together. I already sound a twat

Anyway, I go into the bathroom to find the newly laundered towels stuffed on the shelf in various shapes and sizes, yes it just towels and yes I'm a neat freak but ffs don't put them in the bathroom if you can't be arsed to fold them!

I'm not grateful he attempted to help, he just couldn't be fucked to put them away properly. I have issues don't I?!

Try working in a shop that sells towels and see how much it pisses you off when you spend ages folding them so they are uniform and all facing the same way and someone comes along and messes them up!

My name is iklboo & I'm a towel refolder as well.

Are you me??

So basically, you make towels flat, and then sort of into shapes, and then stack them?

Help me out here I'm struggling with the basic concepts involved. I've put together what I have so far using Google/Wikipedia.

Shelf? folding? towels? just why in Gods name?

Towels = linen cupboard - retrieve one use, wash. No bloody arty farty folding and putting on shelves

'I tried explaining how but he just doesn't get it.'

He does get it. He just doesn't give a shit how the towels are folded. Like me.

OH is the OCD one, I'm the messy one.

He despairs of my towel habits. He rearranges them nicely. Good for him. It makes him happy.

I think his way looks nice, yes, but not worth the effort. It's towels for goodness sake. It's something I'm going to wipe my soggy arse with. Why does it need to look all perfect on the shelf/rail?

I couldn't give a rat's about towels, but ONLY I CAN LOAD THE DISHWASHER so as to achieve maximum efficiency. And I get the stabby rage when people (hello, MiL) try to "help".

YABU for not folding them with the Anthea Turner method

Someone posted a link to her YouTube clip on towel folding with a warning not to watch it if you are in any way a bit obsessed

I stupidly did, and then spent a few hours refolding all the towels. I didn't ever master the tshirt folding trick though

people actually fold towels and socks? who knew...

kentishgirl I'm with you. couldn't give a toss about towel-folding. I even shove wet ones in an unsightly mess on the heated towel rail. OP's DH is a dream to bother folding them at all.

Every morning, after his shower, DP puts the large wet towel on the radiator BUT he puts it on top of the the dry hand towel

I've told him over & over that the wet towel won't dry and it'll make the dry towel wet!

He never listens...is it time LTB?

i can do the tshirt foldy thing

and I'm also a bit towel foldy too. I love it when we have visitors and I fold up their bathsheets, bath towel and hand towel into tidy piles so they have a pile on the bottom corner of the bed.

and I proffer my stolen hotel toiletries and slippers. All laid on top of the hand towel at jaunty angles. or sometimes lined up perfectly.

I am too kind.

It's the Anthea Turner way, boy can that woman fold towels.

oh...the slippers are at each side of the bed, not lined up with the toiletries.

It's not just about towel folding, it's about having some bloody pride! It can't just be me that likes our house to look nice? I'm not that anal surely?!

Cuff me Constable, guilty as charged, all that gubbin's I do all of that too wholenutt (especially the Sleeping with the Enemy towels plus bottles in bathroom cupboard, folding of knickers I'm probably due a twat alert) - so no you are DDDNBU. Very sensible, aesthetically pleasing and all-round naice.

Drives me up the wall on a regular basis when DH and DSS leave things all a-kimbo - men just DON'T get all that stuff whaaaaaaah!

btw knickers, in case you'd like to know, need to be folded sides in first, then crotch, then place in drawer in mini-piles

Ahhhhhh, that feels better.

It's the ATT (Anthea Turner towels) way or the highway!

I... I've tried. I don't understand any of this. What are you people?

Catsmamma, you are my idol

I will endevour to steal more miniature hotel toiletries for the benefit of my future guests

OP, Everyone, I take no responsibility for your actions after you watch this.

If your DCs don't get fed on time tonight, or you LTB after he shoves clean towels back without folding to this method, don't come crying to me.

But there is no feeling like stepping back and surveying your work when you've redone the towel pile...

"Yanbu. Halfs, then thirds then halfs and put on shelf with other equal sized towels with the rounded bit facing out.

Simple.

Those who don't understand are fools."

^ this exactly.

I fear i will never be able to cohabit without being declared a controlling neat freak! Except for the dcs- they're being trained in the correct method of all household tasks

I was going to say YANBU but then you said you have the non folded side to the front . For that alone YABU.

That aside, I am totally with you. In fact after 20 yrs I told DH just the other day that I was still fed up with him not folding the towels properly!!

You have to have no edges showing it's the same with napkins!! I actually found myself saying to dh once I'd discovered the towels 'have you no pride'

I can't get het up about towel folding but incorrect loading of the dishwasher is another matter altogether that may end in bloodshed one if these days

I feel your pain. I have drawer organisers in my underwear drawer and roll my pants up. DH does it but they are all different heights, I gave him a ruler until he gets the hang of it.