Just came up from the basement from doing laundry…
OK, folks –
raise your hands if your fitted bottom sheets go into your linen closet looking like a wad of discarded rags!
Now, those of you who DIDN’T raise your hand, assuming you aren’t cheating by having a more laundry-proficient spouse or spousal equivalent or mommy or laundry service to do it for you, HOW THE BLOODY HECK DO YOU FOLD THE DAMN THINGS???
This is just about impossible to explain verbally but look at the folds of a department store gift box and copy that. You’re basically masking hospital corners for a mattress of zero thickness. Once that’s done you can fold normally. Personally I don’t go to the trouble. Have a beer and get a grip.
Mrs. Cal knows how to fold fitted sheets. She has been trying to teach me, without measurable success.
Take one “pocket” and fit it over your hand (like a glove). Take the other "pocket from the same end of the bed and put it over your other hand. (You can now do a Punch and Judy show). Transfer the pocket on one hand OVER the pocket in your other hand. Now you’ve got both pockets on one hand, one of them inside-out.
Smooth out the sheet and bring up the other two corners, and put them over the same hand “in turn”. You’ll know you are doing this right if the rest of the sheet is relatively neatly folded.
(Mrs. Cal has just left the room. "It’s easier if I do this for you, she said. So all of you out there sit and watch.)
Hold the fitted sheet up and let the elasticized edges fold in. You now have a rectangle supported at one upper end by four “pockets” on one hand, your other hand partway in, with an elastic edge running horizontal. Another elastic edge runs vertically down from the hand in the pockets.
Now fold the rest up with the elasticized edges on the inside.
That’s OK. I can’t do it, either. Just keep trying