Posted on March 30, 2019
Don't know why folding laundry warrants a special day, but I happen to not mind this task too much. I definitely wouldn't want to buy an expensive, bulky machine to do it!
I have my own way of folding laundry that is pretty simple and that is designed for the storage I have for clothes and linens. But there are a lot of good ways to fold laundry, and here are a BUNCH of ideas.
If you don't mind a slower video and want more explanation of the hows and whys of folding, check out this video.
If you don't mind a slower video and want more explanation of the hows and whys of folding, check out this video.
Or go with the Tidying Up lady, Marie Kondo, and her many, many videos about folding laundry. Here is a one that is folding-in-general. You will see that her basic idea is used by others in the other videos - but many people find her videos calming and happy-making!
Folding laundry can be a relaxing task, something you can do while talking on the phone, something you can do while listening to an audio book or music or a podcast, even something you can do while watching TV or Netflix!
By the way, some people people just don't bother to fold laundry, but not only do clothes get wrinkled, it's super hard to find particular items, or two matching socks, and bunches of rumpled piles of clean clothes take up a lot more room than folded laundry properly put away. Not to mention the fact that it's harder to keep track of what is clean and what is not when everything looks like this:
So save time AND help your clothes look better by folding and putting away laundry!