What is folding laundry?

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I've seen this on a few threads, AIBU to not know what it means as a task? People talking about great piles of laundry that need to be folded?
I just fold mine when it gets fetched from the line / airer/ tumble dryer.
If it's for drawers it gets put away, of it's for ironing it gets hung up to wait.
I've never once in my life had a huge pile of laundry that wants folded, and can't understand how people do. Do they scrunch it in a ball when it comes on dry or suchlike?

I can see as things come out of the dryer or off the line that regardless of how they are folded, they need to be ironed.

Actually I neither wear pants or socks so washing them is a moot point.

My point is the damage caused to the environment by continually washing clothes that aren't dirty, using precious resources and ruining the planet for our children I guess. That's the bigger picture. Probably not important to a self entitled person but it is to me.

Standing folding washing is such a waste of life too.

Sorry! Just testing posting in the app!

@PrincessofWellies you dint wear pants or socks? Do you wear trousers? They'll need washing more if you don't wear pants.
You don't wear pants or socks?????

@PrincessofWellies the rest of us can only aspire 🤣🤣🤣

I'm struggling to see how a one-touch policy taken very literally would be more efficient. That would mean getting every dry item, taking it to the correct bedroom to fold and put away.

Even if you minimally pull each item out, fold and then put into piles to then put away, that's still adding lots of extra layers of movement. Great if you're adding squats to your life.

I don't see how it's less efficient to pull everything out into a basket and take it to a convenient place to fold.
Sometimes that might get delayed, for instance if laundry is needing swapping between machines shortly before going out. Some washing loads are more efficient to put away than others.

I favour separating a basket of clothes into piles of where they get put away. DS has a sliding wardrobe so one half is done at a time with the obscured half to put away put in another pile, then folded when that side is free. More touches, but quicker than constantly sliding doors and pulling out different drawers continuously.

What's more efficient will depend on the laundry set up, method and clothes storage.

@BogRollBOGOF I totally agree. Bending each time to remove one garment from the dryer to fold whilst standing would be hard on the back and result is substandard folding!!!
I fold and smooth on a table.

Top tip: take washing off the line by "person" (if you're really clever you can also hang it out by person in the first place ) - so unpeg all of your stuff, quick fold in half and half again, and put in basket then unpeg the next person's stuff yadda yadda... it's already folded and sorted in the basket in the garden, take the sorted and folded piles to each room and put away/hang up.

FFS. If I take clothes off the line and bring the whole lot in, it takes me less than a minute. I then spend up to 10 minutes sorting and folding it to put away later.

If I fold the clothes AS I TAKE THEM OFF THE LINE, it still takes me up to 10 minutes to do.

IT TAKES THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME. AND ARGH!!!! Who the fuck cares about how/when people fold laundry. (Yes, I'm commenting, but just because it's such an utterly stupid question and it's enraged me slightly).

I also CANNOT be doing with people who want to show off their housekeeping skills. Who cares. Fold, don't fold. Iron, don't iron. Have a special system for folding fitting sheets or get a life like the rest of us.

There. As you were.

I wash by person- we each have own laundry basket as I find it much easier. DD’s washing is always filthy (nursery) and can all be tumbled so it gets a hotter, longer wash. Mine gets a quick colder wash and never tumbled. DH’s is a mix. Usually one load each a week when basket full, and makes it quick to put away as no sorting.

I bring ours from the line in a basket, unfolded, then have to hang it up or put it in the dryer for a little while because it’s never bone dry (we live by the sea) but then I fold it straight from the dryer/ airer and put it away or into the ironing basket. I have a friend who always has a full couch of clean washing just dumped all over it, and another one who has a full travel cot of it in her living room!