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A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are sitting on the opposite ends of a mattress, with a scrungled-up fitted sheet resting on top of the mattress between them. The foxes look at each other, full of confidence. Green: Ready to tackle putting on the fitted sheet? Blue: Yep!
Blue and Green begin to struggle with the sheet, stretching it over the mattress. Blue: Is it still on right? Green: No! The left corner escaped!
After great painstaking efforts, the foxes succeed. Standing on the opposite sides of the now sheet-covered mattress, they admire the fruits of their hard work. Green: Phew! Finally!
The foxes draw back in surprise as the mattress suddenly gives in under the strain of the bedsheet, folding nearly in half into a banana shape, as the corners of the mattress are pulled up by the corners of the sheet.
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Pro Tip: put the sheet on opposite corners first. Bottom left corner, then top right corner
This keeps tension on the sheet and prevents it from slipping off while you’re finishing the other 2 corners
Fitted sheets are a sign of civilisation’s hubris.
Putting them back on the bed is easy; it’s folding them for later that’s black magic fuckery
I swear I’ve seen the exact same YouTube video tutorial on how to fold them multiple times, incorporated it into my routine, only to forget the technique entirely within a day or two.
It is almost as if a wizard is preventing us from remembering this skill. what does it meeeaaan
What? people fold them?
I store mine as a big ball in a dedicated bin.
Storing? They’re on the bed or in the washing machine.
You only have 1 sheet?
Yes?
Sometimes I was too lazy to finish my laundry today, but now I need bedding… Take out the spare sheet and suffer re-folding the one that’s in the washing, tomorrow.
There is actually a very good technique for it, but I keep forgetting it, or messing it up
Here’s what I do:
- Place sheet upside-down on bed (or sufficiently large surface).
- Make sure the elastic bits don’t hang off the side.
- Slide hands under the elastic bits and push out the four corners, so you have a roughly mattress-sized rectangle.
- Grab two of the corners and fold the whole thing onto the other two corners, so that the elastic bits are contained inside.
- Now you can continue folding in half, like you’d fold anything else.
Fitted sheet, other sheet, and one pillow case all get stored inside the other pillow case, none folded.
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I truly wish sheet makers would just mark the long and/or short sides. It can’t be difficult to incorporate and it’d be an awesome QOL feature. I’d buy a brand that did that.
Edit: apparently many brands do do this and I’m not observant. Thanks for the tips everyone!
Beds should just be square.
It may just be coincidence that this works for all of my sheets, but I always put the tag at the bottom right corner and it works every time.
Funny, mine are at the top left corner.
It’s actually not a coincidence! It’s sort of an unofficial (AFAIK) standard to put the tag (washing instructions etc) on the bottom right corner.
Just like how they always put tags on the inner left side of your shirt (which helps tremendously with plain shirts).
Mine actually tells you on the tag itself.
Nice! That’s definitely good to know
Monkeys paw curls…
You get a sheet set that does exactly this, but the quality is so bad that it always feels like there’s crumbs in the bed even though there aren’t.
I found wrapping paper with a lightly dotted grid on the back. So incredibly useful! Whoever came up with that has my eternal gratitude.
It feels like I’ve noticed more and more wrapping paper brands doing this over the last few years and it really is super helpful.
…all of the fitted sheets I get have this. It says something like “head” on 2 small tags.
One of my fitted sheets (The Big One brand I think) has a little tag on the shorter side that reads “TOP OR BOTTOM”, super handy
Oh, I thought that was just a really inappropriate question. I’m always top, and the sheet is always bottom anyway.
Yeah apparently my sheet is a switch
which brand? Where did you get them?
Target. You could probably just use a sharpie and mark the ends on the inside of the elastic
My wife did this. I thought the sharpie would come off in the wash, but last time I looked, it was still there.
Flat sheets crew represent
Putting it on the bed is easy it is folding it that is the trick.
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