# Fold Your T-Shirt Like a Pro **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 7, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fold-your-t-shirt-like-a-pro/244051 "2004-05-07T18:33:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fold-your-t-shirt-like-a-pro/244051/1 "2004-05-07T18:33:38Z")
I am a single guy who folds his t-shirts, but only marginally so. This is pretty cool, I haven’t tried but the person who sent it to me says it works, your t-shirts end up looking like they are straight off the store shelf: [http://cooler.irk.ru/pic19/2.mpg](http://cooler.irk.ru/pic19/2.mpg) ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fold-your-t-shirt-like-a-pro/244051/2 "2004-05-07T18:51:16Z")
Color me relieved! All this time I thought a machine had taken over that job. My husband probably won’t care about the “cool fold”, but I’m willing to give it a try. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fold-your-t-shirt-like-a-pro/244051/3 "2004-05-07T18:56:10Z")
Fold Your T-Shirt Like a Pro, Doo daah, doo daah, Fold Your T-Shirt Like a Pro, Oh, de doo dah day. Ha ha. Now it’s in your head too. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fold-your-t-shirt-like-a-pro/244051/4 "2004-05-07T18:56:46Z")
It’d take me longer to smooth my t-shirts out flat than it takes me to fold the way I usually do. That is kinda neat, tho. maybe if I get really bored… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fold-your-t-shirt-like-a-pro/244051/5 "2004-05-07T20:04:37Z")
Once in a shop, I don’t recall which one, I was a little amazed and disappointed to see the worker folding shirts using a plexiglass as a guide. The shirt just wrapped around the guide and you slid the guide out and tucked in the sleeves. ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fold-your-t-shirt-like-a-pro/244051/6 "2004-05-09T01:18:52Z")
There’s an infomercial item called a “Flip-fold”, that you can buy so that you can fold your clothes evenly. You’ll have to go to [www.asseenontv.com](http://www.asseenontv.com) so you can order one online. But why would anyone want to? Isn’t it enough that you can’t turn your clothes inside out to get another wearing before washing the garment? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fold-your-t-shirt-like-a-pro/244051/7 "2004-05-09T02:11:21Z")
When the Internet runs out of room, that video’s the first thing to go. > [@Jenaroph](#): > > Ha ha. Now it’s in your head too. Bastard. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fold-your-t-shirt-like-a-pro/244051/8 "2004-05-09T11:20:05Z")
I have the ‘Flip-Fold’. Some may call me lazy for using it, but I have never been able to properly fold a shirt. The cost has more than been recouped in contrast to the time and frustration of me trying to fold laundry. And dagnabbit, my shirts (t-shirts, polos, sweats) finally fit in the drawers and look good to boot. screech (just call me ‘domestically challenged’) -owl ---
**Author:** ![ReuvenB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@ReuvenB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReuvenB)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fold-your-t-shirt-like-a-pro/244051/9 "2004-05-09T11:48:09Z")
I can’t do it. I’m just that incompetent. ---
**Author:** ![Low\_Key\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@Low\_Key\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Low_Key_1)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fold-your-t-shirt-like-a-pro/244051/10 "2004-05-09T12:02:07Z")
Learning to fold t-shirts seems like as good a way to not study as any. Perhaps I’ll use this skill (once I learn it) as a pickup line… “I’ll fold all your t-shirts for you in a really cool way if you let me come home with you…” …or, I’ll just stick to studying Cournot duopoly’s and whatnot and try to pass my exam tomorrow. (I’m pretty sure I know which one I’ll end up choosing…at least my t-shirts will look nice even if I fail…) ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fold-your-t-shirt-like-a-pro/244051/11 "2004-05-09T12:16:33Z")
I lay my t-shirts on the bed, place an A4 size clipboard down on top [of the t-shirt] so that the “clip” end of the board is where the collar of the t-shirt is, then fold the bottom of the t-shirt up over the board, fold in the sleeves, then fold in the sides [of the t-shirt], slip the clipboard back out and _voilà!_ a neatly folded t-shirt. That way all my folded t-shirts take up the same amount of space and can be stacked on a shelf. Took me 6 months to develop this method 😃