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I’m terrible at cleaning, laundering, and it takes me 7-10 days to fold freshly washed clothes. 😅 I normally don’t blog about this kind of stuff, so don’t expect any future laundry tips from me.

However, there’s one laundry nuisance that I excel at, and so I must share.

STEP-BY-STEP

HOW TO FOLD A FITTED SHEET:

Lay out your fitted sheet as flat as you possibly can, with annoying crinkly elastic side up.

Identify the corner seams. If your sheet doesn’t have a corner seam, typical of jersey sheets which tend to just be gathered all around, fold in the sides and establish “corners” from there.

Grab the two bottom corners and walk them up to the top corners. It’s best to do this flat on the floor or on a bed.

*Having someone help you by folding the sheets together is a no-no for fitted sheets. It will surely make the sides pop out and give you some weird parallelogram shape that’s the most frustrating part of folding fitted sheets.

Now your top and bottom corners are overlapping and you have one folded edge.

Fold the bottom UP again to create a long rectangle. You may need to make more upward folds when folding a larger sheet.

FLIP your sheet over.

Find the mid point of the sheet and fold the sides in towards the middle. Again, larger sheet sizes my require more folds to get to the center, but you just want to fold the two sides towards the midline.

Your sheet should now look like a book and just fold it in half.

✅ Done! You have successfully folded a fitted sheet!

Now, just fold the matching flat sheet and tuck this baby inside.

This folding method can be done with ANY size fitted sheet. We chose a crib sheet for ease of taking full length photos, but you can see how I used the same method to fold full-size bed sheets!