Posted on 09/11/2007 3:14:02 PM PDT by Global2010
Ok before ya'll freak out listen.
Anyone that knows us OP and King Vanity I will not have to explain this too.
Others I am a Medical Care Provider and my work requires complete cordination;innovation;skill and my rule is "everythng has its place".
That is great when doing pricise procedures and having medical supplies all packed in orderly packages, shifts run in compliance to the shift before.
Organized down to when vendors come and meds are ready each month all to stock.
Almost as if military.
Here is the issue that has me in a frustrated avoid the task issue.
In the Last year I have lost my laundry room folding employee and at $15 an hour we are not only needing a laundry folder (no laundry wash or dry I do that) and a medical supply stock person.
We are looking at ( I use a nationwide reputable temp service we do background/drug ect at our expense) advertizing for migrant (name your country) workers. The locals who show up can't pass drug tests or just lack of whatever to secure a job with us and yes we do require employees with secure backgrounds more then your local hosp. does. I can bet a pony on it.
Bottom line I have been doing the stock and it can't sit there as we live in a rain forrest so it has to be brought in to the house ASAP and well then I just stock it.
Laundry I have a system down but a few to fold loads (tons of laundry in a medical care home) may sit out for a few dayz. I have cringed but can handle that my biggest and most PMOff issue is I cannot figure out how to fold the TWIN size Fitted sheets.
I can't just ball them up and stow them. Can anyone tell me how in the heck do you easily and neatly fold these monsters.
I have matching flats and like to keep them together to save time.
Yes dumb vanity but I would get the laundry folded ( waiting for a replacement) more timely as it came out if I did not have these fitted twin sheets to deal with.
I don't care if you guys make fun of me.
Yet I know 1 FReeper will help me deal with this one stupid thing that PMOff.
KV keeps me busy and so when he takes a nap or a volenteer comes to read/visit I am down the hall trying to tackle the laundry folding issue.
There just has to be a trick to folding the twin fitted sheets.
You think you got problems ping...
Let me grab my socks!!!!
BRB
Do what I do.
Look totally helpless. The wife sighs loudly and folds them herself.
Problem solved.
When my wife get home from bringing my daughter to dance I'll ask here advice.
FReegards, Yankee.
You know how hard it is to fold the fitted sheet with those elastic corners?? Well here’s the step by step (video) to a neat sheet!
http://viewdo.com/now_viewing.php?id=140
Q: Do you also have to deal with storing pillows as well?
LMAF Thanks T_Slim
Crud I should of remembered her screen name and PM’d her.
Dang.
Thanks for Pinging her.
Mrs. Doomonyou does those, I don't get involved.
if you hold a fitted corner over each hand and then place the fitted corner from the other end over the first fitted corner you will have the top folded in half with the sides of the fitted sheet turned in accross the top you are holding up and down each side..
Lay on a flat surface and finish folding.
Imagine that the sheet is a rectangle, and that the points on each corner where the seam to fit the corner starts (toward the center of the sheet, not the the edge) are the corners of the rectangle. Spread the sheet out, folding about 6” all around “in,” as the sheet would naturally tend to go because of the corner seams, making the sides into straight lines. It should now look like a rectangle; you can fold the corners over like wrapping paper on the end of a package, if you want to be really tidy.
Now you can fold the rectangle easily into the size you want, and it will be relatively flat when you put it on the shelf.
On the other hand, if you have the kind of cheap sheets that have elastic all around, that you can’t ever figure out which is the long side and which is the short side ... as far as I can tell, there’s no way to fold those neatly without a commercial steam press. I suggest washing them and putting them right back on the beds :-).
KV is a quadroplegic and the other 3 in the house have white/yellow coats on with paws aka Labrador huntin’ dogs.
I am on my own.
Webtv users here. But thanks for the help.
the link at #6 shows in video what I tried to say in text at #10...amazing a video for everything....now if I can just find the one for a Democrat loss...
Especially if pressed for time.
I am not an expert but this works well enough for me.
Have the sheet open (flat) and fold in half lengthwise (or width wise up, I haven’t folded a twin in ages) over with the corners tucked into the other corners. Now it looks like two layers lying flat. I move the ends opposite the corners in so it makes a straight line that looks like a regular sheet. Now you can fold the entire length over again and then up in halves or thirds til you get a nice little rectangle.
It’s hard to describe without pictures or doing it in person. Once you get the corners tucked into each other you can fold it down to whatever size you like.
You are indeed on your own.
Sorry.
Best I can do:
Fold the sheet in half the same you would the top sheet, then tuck the corner elastic into the other corner elastic, matching it up. Hold onto it and fold the sheet in half again. And again, until small enough. The trick is holding onto the elastic corners.
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