Step 1: hold up by a short edge, fold vertically. (In half or thirds, your choice.) Step 2:tuck short edge under chin, reach down and grab edges at hip level. (For my body that’s dead center of the towel length, but I’m short. You might have to grab waist-high. Check in a mirror and from then on you can do it by feel.) Step 3: Let go with chin and raise center, creating a folded edge. Step 4: reach out over a surface, touch down the unfolded edges and lower the folded edge towards you until it’s halfway, then push the folded edge away and lower it atop the other edge.
Why do that at all instead of just… you know, folding it in half? Bonus points, if you’re tall and have the wingspan to literally just hold it open longways.
I have several towels to fold and put away each time so they at least have to be folded in half lengthwise and twice the other way to make a nice square stack. And I’m 5’1", having lost an inch from my younger height. I only use one towel a week myself but it’s not just me. Now, washcloths I do only fold in half. I used to do fourths, but it made two stacks, that took up the same space as one stack of single folds.
It only takes me a few minutes to fold and put away two large loads of laundry, even when the cat helps. It’s one of the few household chores that’s actually satisfying instead of drudgery.
I’m also good at folding fitted sheets into a nice tidy unwrinkled square despite the fact a queen sheet is well beyond my wingspan.
Yeah, I think your height is the main reason to choose this convoluted (but functional) method. I’m not even tall by modern standards, only 6ft (183cm), but that’s still enough to fold a queen size bed sheet in quarters without having to hold it at a third point
Yes, unlike your old bedroom which is the same size, your mom has very likely shrunk a little from when you were a little kid. We lose bone, and we’ve carried a lot.
I grab two corners along the long edge and pinch with one hand, and slide my other hand along the length until it’s tight in the middle, then I just meet that to the corners in my other hand, then turn it to the side and fold in half
I think I can transalte: “How can he fold towels if he doesn’t have a chin?”
Cause most people hold the middle part of the towel with their chin when folding.
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But why?
Am I secretly a towel folding genius? I don’t see how that’s remotely required?
It’s usually blankets that are folded using the chin. Maybe they have gigantic towels.
Those are the best towels. See also “hang-dried floofy towel bliss”.
I have ratty towels, they dry the best.
Nah you probably just use momentum to whip it into the half-folded position. Do you also drape it over your knee?
You don’t need to use momentum, but I realized it might be impossible unless you’re tall enough.
Step 1: hold up by a short edge, fold vertically. (In half or thirds, your choice.) Step 2:tuck short edge under chin, reach down and grab edges at hip level. (For my body that’s dead center of the towel length, but I’m short. You might have to grab waist-high. Check in a mirror and from then on you can do it by feel.) Step 3: Let go with chin and raise center, creating a folded edge. Step 4: reach out over a surface, touch down the unfolded edges and lower the folded edge towards you until it’s halfway, then push the folded edge away and lower it atop the other edge.
Why do that at all instead of just… you know, folding it in half? Bonus points, if you’re tall and have the wingspan to literally just hold it open longways.
Cause it’s easy and it does a lot of damage
I have several towels to fold and put away each time so they at least have to be folded in half lengthwise and twice the other way to make a nice square stack. And I’m 5’1", having lost an inch from my younger height. I only use one towel a week myself but it’s not just me. Now, washcloths I do only fold in half. I used to do fourths, but it made two stacks, that took up the same space as one stack of single folds.
It only takes me a few minutes to fold and put away two large loads of laundry, even when the cat helps. It’s one of the few household chores that’s actually satisfying instead of drudgery.
I’m also good at folding fitted sheets into a nice tidy unwrinkled square despite the fact a queen sheet is well beyond my wingspan.
Yeah, I think your height is the main reason to choose this convoluted (but functional) method. I’m not even tall by modern standards, only 6ft (183cm), but that’s still enough to fold a queen size bed sheet in quarters without having to hold it at a third point
No one’s bringing up the missing inch?
Let’s send out a search party!
Yes, unlike your old bedroom which is the same size, your mom has very likely shrunk a little from when you were a little kid. We lose bone, and we’ve carried a lot.
Some people are slow, so they have to rely on friction rather than inertia to bend the towel.
I needed your explainer and then I laughed.
I find this concept incomprehensible
To fold towels, I hold them up, fold them hotdog, then let go and grab the middle. I guess you could lay them down and fold them that way
Your image doesn’t load for me, but I can’t imagine how my chin could possibly come into play…
You have to hold the center with your chin so that you fold it straight
I’m honestly not sure how you fold towels without it lol
I just tested how I told because I wasnt sure
I grab two corners along the long edge and pinch with one hand, and slide my other hand along the length until it’s tight in the middle, then I just meet that to the corners in my other hand, then turn it to the side and fold in half
No chin
I’m honestly impressed
Also thank you for testing it lol I needed to know!
I’m so confused… You hold the long, floppy cloth perpendicular to gravity when you fold it?
Yes. I also have to stand up lol