[HN Gopher] Ratfactor's illustrated guide to folding fitted sheets
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Ratfactor's illustrated guide to folding fitted sheets
Author : zdw
Score : 116 points
Date : 2025-08-09 11:58 UTC (11 hours ago)
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| jakubmazanec wrote:
| I fold my fitted sheets in half and then few more times, in my
| hands while standing. It doesn't look good, but the sheets are
| always stored out of sight, so I don't care.
|
| But the article is great, especially the ghost joke.
| AvAn12 wrote:
| An excellent explainer article!
| baxuz wrote:
| I just roll em up
| jonstewart wrote:
| Just wad it up and throw it in the closet.
| abakker wrote:
| Jam all the sheets in one pillow case for the set. Folding
| is...not my thing.
| ctippett wrote:
| This is _perfect_!
|
| Every time my wife and I fold our fitted sheets after a wash,
| after we've fumbled our way with folding it, I say "one day I'll
| lookup how to do this properly."
|
| Imagine my elation upon seeing this on HN. The article captures
| the exact level of snark too.
| navigate8310 wrote:
| I don't fold my clothes because they'll eventually be worn out.
| SilverElfin wrote:
| I'm not into the repeated cycle of folding clothes or sheets.
| Just leave them in hampers.
| snozolli wrote:
| My mom scolded me when I was young, telling me that I needed to
| know how to fold fitted sheets because women care about that sort
| of thing. This made me dread washing sheets.
|
| Turns out that no woman I've dated has cared about whether fitted
| sheets are folded properly, nor have any of them known how to
| fold them. You know what they do care about? Cleanliness of
| sheets.
|
| Bookmarked anyway. Maybe I'll ingrain the method before reaching
| my deathbed.
|
| Bachelor hack: you don't need to know how to fold fitted sheets
| if you only have one set of sheets.
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| I could not give less of a shit about folding fitted sheets. I
| ball 'em up individually, and toss 'em into the drawer where they
| live, next to the folded top sheets.
| SoftTalker wrote:
| One of the times where a video is worth a thousand words and
| drawings.
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| https://youtu.be/ckTCocBCUN4
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| Also, how to fold a tee shirt:
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| https://youtube.com/shorts/L6HpOO7MlcI
| marai2 wrote:
| ratfactor - you're doing God's work by teaching us how to tackle
| the demon that is the fitted sheet!
| Moru wrote:
| My trick is to wash the sheets, run in dryer and back on the
| beds. No folding involved :)
| chasd00 wrote:
| Why would you wash a fitted sheet if it was not immediately going
| back on the bed? I don't think I've ever had to fold a fitted
| sheet...
| hansvm wrote:
| It's easy to accidentally accumulate more than you need. E.g.,
| when I got married we each were previously living our own
| lives. Big things like mattresses we consolidated, but an extra
| set of sheets is zero maintenance.
|
| It's also nice to be able to make the bed right away. Maybe you
| want to take a nap while the clothes finish. Maybe you have
| time now and not later (and can defer the folding to "later" as
| well). You could have one of those shitty high-efficiency
| dryers that incorrectly detects whether your clothes are dry
| and doesn't have an override to apply heat anyway, requiring
| 12h of air drying to actually have dry sheets. You could not
| have a dryer or otherwise prefer air drying more generally.
|
| You could also have an extra set of sheets for a pull-out couch
| or other sort of place where you don't normally waste the space
| having the bed always down on the ground.
|
| Etc. Life is complicated. There are 8B of us, and we're not
| clones.
| cossatot wrote:
| Because it's for your kid's bed. At 3 AM the previous night,
| they peed the bed, so you got the other one out and put it on,
| throwing this one in the laundry room. Then, today you washed
| it but the one on the bed already is still in good shape.
|
| Or, you have sheets of a few different colors, each paired to a
| comforter with a different weight that is changed seasonally,
| or biweekly, depending on the preferences of you and your
| bedmate.
| colechristensen wrote:
| while not at all complete advice, the short version is "put the
| 'fitted' corners into each other then fold as normal"
|
| all four fitted corners need to be nested inside each other, you
| do this by folding in half one direction then the other popping
| them inside out as necessary
| binarymax wrote:
| Really enjoyed the article and the illustrations. Lots of care
| went into publishing this.
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