As I have said in prior posts, I have been struggling lately. Some of it is internal dialogue I have about falling short of what I expect from myself, and the other is true demands that just happened, and have to be dealt with right away.
One of those minor inconveniences is bedding. I find myself with a new (to my house) overflow of linens, comforters, pillows and blankets. Everything needed to be washed, dried, folded and put away. I do have 2 linen closets in this house, but both of them were already filled and these sheets have to live somewhere until I decide what to keep and what to pass on. Of course, I am not always the most efficient folder because I have 2 closets dedicated to linens and never had to be. Well times they are a changin'.
I decided to tackle the main floor linen closet first, which meant emptying the closet, seeing if I had any widowed sheets that had lost their mate. Those were moved to my fabric cabinet to be used to line chairs for any reupholstering I am doing. (I have one chair in the basement waiting for me to make it look a little prettier). While I was sorting them I noticed what a really bad fitted sheet folder I am. I watched YouTube video after video to see how people do the magical fitted sheet folding. Obviously I am either incredibly dense or terribly uncoordinated, our possibly a combination of the two.
After about an hour of trying to insert my right hand in one corner then using my left hand to "capture " the corner beside it, then do the same with the other two corners (which are master hiders), placing both hands like I am about to clap, then folding over and pinching the corner with one hand while I use the other to straighten it into a rectangle. I never got to the rectangle part and then . . I gave up.
Well I almost gave up until I found Andrea Jean who does not care if I fold them like the experts or not. I am pretty sure I heard the angels sing when I began her video. Finally a really sensible folding plan for a klutz like me. And it only took me until I was this old to find out how to neatly organize my sheets sets.
It is amazing how many set of neatly folded sheets will fit into my closets. I am really impressed and would like to pretend like I had been doing this all my life, but nope. So thanks to AJ for her tutorial that might not have changed my life, but it certainly changed my closet.
I am putting her video here for any of you who might also be sheet challenged.
For those of you who do the incredible finger in, fold, smooth, professional method, I am impressed and am secretly jealous of your ability.
My other beef with doing the sheets is the lack of inner tags indicating the sheet sizes. Unless you have a set nearby for comparison it is hard to tell a queen flat from a king flat. For me the same goes for a twin flat and full flat. Some brands tag both sheets, some tag just the bottom and some tag none. Or maybe I lack a size relationship gene. Who knows? It still tees me off!
I am leaving with an appeal to the powers that be, to nominate Andrea Jean for Sainthood.
Have a great day and I hope none of you are stuck in the laundry room! Tomorrow__ the upstairs linen closet and figuring out what to do with extra towels! Did I mention I have about a dozen extra towels now?
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