“What shall we do this weekend?”
“I don’t know. What say you?”
“We could organise our linen cupboard. Now Johanna Griggs has showed us on Better Homes and Gardens how to fold our fitted sheets we have no excuse for it to be so unkempt. We can get everything all tucked up into the pillow slips. Peace will reign again.”
“Look, I don’t care if Martha Stewart herself came to town in a spaceship and showed me personally how to do it, I refuse to fold fitted sheets. If you want to, go right ahead. ”
“Why don’t you think of the sheets?! Those poor material scraps thrown in there with no consideration whatsoever. Those poor, poor sheets.”
“And who washes those sheets? And dries them? Along with every other scrap of material that’s worn or torn or used for protective purposes, every day of every month? It’s my imperial right to be able to chose which of those I get to treat like shit, and this year it’s the sheets. Next year, it’s the tea-towels.”
“Right – I’ll get a union together for their cause. Nice and early.”
“You do that, dear. What a productive use of your time. Just like folding sheets.”
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Martial disruption? Is the sheriff in town?
My mum was obsessive about ironing and folding all our sheets, including the fitted ones. I refuse, they get shoved into the cupboard.
Am now however ironing pillowcases in vain attempt to kill nits and their eggs.
I shall join you in your inhumanity to fitted sheets, it seems a good outlet for my time
LOL. I unfortunately caught that snippet too, and came to a similar conclusion about the priority ranking that folding fitted sheets should have in my life. I’m quite content with my unkempt linen cupboard. Thanks anyway JG.
They showed how to fold them on an episode a few years ago with one of the crafty types (Shelley?) and I was thoroughly underwhelmed and left with an urge to bury all my fitted sheets in the vegie garden lol
I can make use of the sheets in the pillow case idea to keep sets together but folding the fitted ones…….. bugga that – they can get stuffed (literally. Into the pillow cases) lol
It took me a minute to figure out which one of you was fighting the good fight for the organised cupboard and which one was declaring the war against the fitted sheets. Amused when I got it sorted…
Hey, I never thought of stuffing them IN the pillowcases, way cool! You should be on Martha Stewart Mistress B
You know, fitted sheets look nice and all, but I am incapable of making it happen. Seriously, I’ve watched Martha and her ilk do it — step-by-step — like 80 times, and I’m still unable to duplicate the results. So screw it. Life’s too short.
Gah. FOLDED fitted sheets look nice and all, is what I meant.
My mum can never find my sheets. She’s often perplexed by all the pillows in the cupboard though. It’s so long between visits that she forgets I fold my sheet sets and store them inside their matching pillow case.