mia700•11d ago

Vent: That time I realized I was folding my fitted sheets completely wrong for 28 years

Used to just ball up my fitted sheets and shove them in the linen closet. Thought that was normal. Then my mom visited 2 years ago and showed me how to actually fold them with the corners tucked in. Took maybe 3 minutes to learn, and now my closet actually makes sense. But the real eye opener was realizing I had been doing it wrong since my first apartment in 2016. Has anyone else had a basic skill totally flip their perspective like this?

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parker_palmer4411d ago

Oh man, that hits hard. I was 32 before someone told me you're supposed to let the sheets cool down before folding them.

grays1311d agoMost Upvoted

Heat is what sets the crease, so fold them warm for crisp lines every time.

corablack11d ago

My grandmother had a set of linen sheets from the 1960s that she swore by. She'd pull them off the line at exactly 2 PM on a sunny day when they were bone dry but still radiating heat from the sun. She'd fold them right there on the back porch, no cooling down at all, and every crease was razor sharp. Then she'd stack them in the cedar chest and they'd stay pristine for months. So I've got one person saying cool them down and another saying heat sets the crease, and then there's Grandma just doing her own thing in the middle. Makes you wonder if the whole argument is missing the real trick, which is probably the humidity in the room more than the temperature of the fabric.