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Airing cupboard management!!!

28 replies

marmadukescarlet · 25/02/2008 22:05

OK this is a really dim question...

All my sheets are white, egyptian cotton and fitted. By the time I've given the the Anthea treatment, apart from the SuperKing which is bulkier, how am I supposed to tell them apart?

I have a not very bright Au Pair at the moment who has caused mayhem in my normally ordered space (I bet you all fell really sorry for me now!)

When I iron, I keep the single bedlinen in one pile (kids) and the double in another (hers) and the sk in another, they are supposed to have their own spaces on the shelves, but this previously AP proof system is failing.

I unfolded 3 sheets today before I got the right size!

What do you all do?

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posieflump · 25/02/2008 22:07

oh so many things worng here...

  1. you iron bedsheets? why would you do that? Isn't life short enough?

  2. all the bedsheets are the same colour? madness...

JackieNo · 25/02/2008 22:07

I have airing cupboard envy. Sorry, no help. Unlesss you can label them on an edge/corner?

Pannacotta · 25/02/2008 22:08

Divide the shelves up and label them according to size.
Well that's the theory in our house anyway, the reality is another matter!

luciemule · 25/02/2008 22:10

mmmm don't have this problem as don't have an au pair (but would really like one!) but couldn't you stitch a K, D or S on the corner or something. Or put each set away in the appropriate room if you've space?

Don't you just hate folding fitted sheets - I try to do it all properly then just mangle them around and shove them in!!!

Original poster
marmadukescarlet · 25/02/2008 22:12

Yep, labelled shelves, but the reality seems to be she can't be arsed tell which is which by the time she gets them upstairs.

posie, they just look neater and fold smaller but you do have a point! As for the all white sheet thing, that is the next option pink for girls, blue for boys and white for me.

jn, sorry about the frivilous dilemma - it is a great thing to have.

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marmadukescarlet · 25/02/2008 22:13

luciemule, most are more trouble than they are worth - hang around the AP, childminders and nannies section for a few minutes, you'll be put right off!

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Pannacotta · 25/02/2008 22:18

Yes you could always store the sheets in the relevant rooms?

Do think this is a job I wouldn't delegate, prob easiest if you put away the sheets straight after ironing, otherwise its not really saving you time is it?

mammatulip · 26/02/2008 20:49

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Kindersurpise · 26/02/2008 20:53

Wow. Mamatulip, that is a good idea.

Off to sort the linen cupboard. Well, the shelf in my bedroom

mammatulip · 26/02/2008 20:56

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Monkeybird · 26/02/2008 20:59

Ohmigod, in (slightly uncomfortable) awe/envy at ironing sheets, not to mention having all Egyptian cotton... ho hum.

But anyway do tell us what the Anthea is exactly?

Kindersurpise · 26/02/2008 21:07

How to fold a fitted sheet

This is from Martha Stewart, Antheas way is I think similar.

Monkeybird · 26/02/2008 21:12

That. Is. Genius.

You see I knew I had nothing in common with the helmet-headed embezzlement queen of clean and chief witch of smuggery. I'd never have thought that up in my disorganised slattern's palace in a million years. But more than happy to hoover up such tips cos I really need help (can you tell?)

mammatulip · 26/02/2008 21:14

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Wallace · 26/02/2008 21:15

You would faint with horror if you saw my linen cupboard

On a sidenote, do you just use your airing cupboard for linen, or do you also use it to finish of not quite dry washing?

This is the first time I have had an airing cupboard and I find it is fantastic if you fold your washing and put it in overnight. When you take it out to put it away it is nice and dry and warm, and also almost looks as if it has been ironed

Wallace · 26/02/2008 21:17

finish "off" not "of"

sweetgrapes · 26/02/2008 21:30
specialmagiclady · 26/02/2008 21:30

When I am rich... rich beyond my wildest dreams, I will have a walk-in linen cupboard. The shelves will be labelled with tin labels... "blue room", "pink room", "red room" etc. The sheets will all be white linen - properly white, not my current shade of chewing gum white. They will all be ironed and folded on the appropriate shelves and interleaved with large flat muslin lavender bags.

I will have fresh sheets every 2 or 3 days (every day if I'm obscenely rich) and exquisite pyjamas, also ironed.

orgasm

sweetgrapes · 26/02/2008 21:35

peeps in... feeling dizzy now...

Just looked at kindersurprises 'How to fold a fitted sheet'

That. Really. Is. Genius.
(c) Mokeybird

sweetgrapes · 26/02/2008 21:36

Oops

(c) Monkeybrid

sorry

sweetgrapes · 26/02/2008 21:37

offs

(c) Monkeybird
There... [satisfied emoticon]

(Really sorry.. you can tell I'm still dizzy)

JingleyJen · 26/02/2008 21:39

not read through all the thread yet but what we do is I iron our sheets whilst they are wet out of the washing machine then when they are dry match them with the duvets and pillow cases so that it is easy to store them.

Special magic lady, when I win the next 95 million on the euromillions I will have someone to change my bed every night, I love getting into a fresh clean bed, crisp sheets.. Blow the environmental impact!

Monkeybird · 26/02/2008 21:40

SML - you forgot about the army of oompaloompas to iron, fold, sniff and interleave for you

Califrau · 26/02/2008 21:42

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specialmagiclady · 26/02/2008 21:45

No no no. I shall have a strict housekeeper in a starched white apron.

And an army of oompa loompas for tending my walled garden and feeding me peaches fresh from the espaliered peach trees on the southern wall.