How to Fold Laundry

How to Fold Laundry
My Favourite Memory
circa 1979

As young housewife and new mother I remember very clearly the turmoil that returning to work caused in my heart and my head! I was very fortunate to hire a grand nanny for our 10 month old son and the return to my career as a nurse educator went very smoothly.

A most vivid memory was going into my linen closet to put something away and noticing that my linen supply had all been refolded. Not only did my grand nanny know how to look after our son but she managed to get all the linen folded and they all ended up the same size! I was amazed and very pleased at the orderly appearance of my linen closet.

Surely one of life's small pleasures is to see a neat and orderly linen supply!!

Question: - Why do you need to know how to fold laundry in order to achieve organized living?

Answer: Well sometimes you don't!

The story of my friend Betty illustrates the point that having a neat underwear drawer is not the measure of organized living. Control is the measure of organized living.

So if you have a method for managing and controlling your underwear socks or even your linen supply without folding you might not even want to watch these videos, however, if you like to have a pleasing orderly appearance when you open your sock drawer or your linen closet then O-M-S offers the following videos for demonstrating how to fold a fitted sheet, a flat sheet, and also socks.

How to Fold a Fitted Sheet

You can even control your sock supply by folding them!

If folding socks is a bit obsessive for your own personal style and you like a more relaxed way of controlling your socks (like Betty) look at this video from our own expert Dianne.

She has given us some great organizing tips for how not to fold laundry such as tea towels, and now she offers some advice on a different way to corral that supply of socks and no folding is required!