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Know why I hate laundry day?
 
It's not the folding of socks.....I like matching them up.  Even the ones that look like they don't really match except for the wear and tear---at least they sort of look like they've been worn together at some point.
 
I don't mind the T-shirts because I get a kick out of rolling them.
 
(side note:  All his T's came out pinkish this time.  I think a new washcloth got detained in the first go-round)
 
I don't mind the pants because I know how to shake and fold them with creases and stick them on a hanger.
 
I like folding the boxers into a neat little square.
 
Towels are a piece of cake....
 
But I for darn sure hate making the bed with a fitted sheet.
 
I have to psyche myself up for the chore and remember that I may want to sleep here later.
 
How come no matter how much you pull, a sheet that came off the bed an hour earlier will not fit on the mattress after the laundry is done?
 
I start with one corner, then go to the end.
 
Next time, I start with one corner and go to the oposite corner.
 
Then I find a sock that matches one lone one hiding in the folds that I had given up on as a mate for Match.com.
 
Take a breath and try this again.....
 
Lift up the mattress and hold it up with my knee....there you go.  I got it!   Go to the other side before it rejects the operation!
 
Ok, now I have the fitted sheet on, and hopefully if it pops off it will pop off on his side first.
 
I'm the one who did the laundry.   I'm the one who put a square peg in a round hole.
 
If it pops off, You sleep on the bare mattress.
 
And I get a few new pink nightshirts to sleep in!  At least until I buy some bleach.
 
Sheet....this just ain't right.....


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  • Lucytorial said on Feb 17, 2008....
    tee he heee you know what I hate that too... I hate more having to fold the damn things... so I never do, I wash and then re make the bed before I have to fold any sheets, as for fitting them, you know I don't think there is any way around it but to grunt and growl and pull your way through it....

    By the time I have it done I sit down and promptly make myself.......

    ***drum roll*****

    Three sheets to the wind!


    haaa hahahaaaaa (is it right to laugh at your own jokes like that?)
  • wombat said on Feb 17, 2008....
    There is no human way to fold a fitted sheet.  I thought if we had more it would help, but you still gotta wash 'em from at least week to week...
     
    Three sheets to the wind--now that's one Aussie saying that we have over here....but I bet we got it from you guys!
  • Lucytorial said on Feb 17, 2008....
    No actually I think its an old Irish saying from the docs in the US... kind of like..

    Aye Mr. O'Learey, he's three sheets to the wind, dare say he won't be rising this day

    The only way to fold a fitted sheet like a normal sheet (yes I tried this, I am particular about washing, folding stuff) you fold it in half, lay that on the floor then you have to fold it over itself again (over half way) then keep folding it over half way until the odd bits don't show, then you get a nice little oblong... but who can be fucked taking half an hour to fold a fitted sheet!
  • wombat said on Feb 17, 2008....
    Lucy:  Well, I have been in good company with Mr. O'Learey....
     
    Maybe he will help me lie down and fold my sheets next time.....ha...
  • MissMimi said on Feb 17, 2008....

    I'm with Lucy -- I don't even bother folding them.  They just go right back on the bed.

    Then I have trouble figuring out which is the end of the sheet and which is the side.  Ya can't win no matter what.

  • wombat said on Feb 17, 2008....
    MissMimi:  I have some help there--one set of sheets we have has a little stripy pattern to it.....but I remember plain white sheets that were hit or miss...
  • wombat said on Feb 17, 2008....
    Just realized that those sheets sound pretty good.  Night all!  And thanks for commenting......
  • D6fer said on Feb 17, 2008....
    Maybe your fitted sheets aren't deep enough?....get em with 18 inch corners.....we just bought some tonight....otherwise I wouldn't have a clue on the subject.....mrs 6 educated me.
  • Lucytorial said on Feb 17, 2008....
    isn't that edumacated????

    You feeling better D?  I hope so, you were real flat last week... anyway I have deep ones too when was the last time you made a bed?
  • D6fer said on Feb 17, 2008....
    4 or 5 days maybe.....I always have to put the fitted sheet on.....mrs 6 is a weakling!
  • Lucytorial said on Feb 17, 2008....
    tee he heeee to get help I always wait until Mr lucy has to go to bed... nasty hey!
  • dailyachesandpains said on Feb 18, 2008....
    I'm with Lucy...HATE FOLDING the fitted sheet!  I actually ordered sheets today :-) 
     
    My Mother told me to go first corner then the next diagonol corner and then finish up the others.  I've not had an issue since, lol! 
     
    Sorry you had to deal with all that Wombie. 
    Daily
  • destinydiva said on Feb 18, 2008....
    lmao!!
     your funny wombie, i hate hate hate matching socks!!  I quit buying fitted sheets for the same reason, and bought valence sheets :-)
    hows about we swap? I'll make the bed if you sort my odd socks!!  I had a count once and had 70 something odd socks in my odd sock basket! :-) xx
  • quietone said on Feb 18, 2008....
    fitted sheet.....fitted to what?  I hate absoluetly hate trying to fold them...so yes, they usually end up either in a ball, or right back on the bed in some form or another!! It almost makes one fit to be tied~
  • skald said on Feb 18, 2008....
    lol Wombat. I bet when you say a fitted sheet it is one of those that look like a bag. I stopped buying them for some reason years ago and I just buy the flat ones that I tug under the mattress. I like them better and I thought I was a weirdie for that. 

    By the way it is funny how one always looses socks in the laundry.
  • capital said on Feb 18, 2008....
    It sounds like you need to rotate the bedsheet 90 degrees... I usually need to turn them one or two times before I figure out which way it goes. If you don't like taking the bedsheet off you can just vacuum it :-D
  • uniquely-ironic said on Feb 18, 2008....
    I do the diagonal corner thing to.  When forced to fold fitted sheets they usually end up all balled up and shoved in the linen closet.  I like folding everything else, though if someone offers to help I have to turn them down.  No sense having my picky little system destroyed by do gooders! ;)
  • Alyss said on Feb 18, 2008....
    I hate laundry and doing the bedlinen especially.
  • pickersplock said on Feb 18, 2008....
    I know how to fold a fitted sheet!!!!!!
    Make sure you click on skip this ad.
     
     
    And Voila!!!
  • crybabylu said on Feb 18, 2008....
    On the fitted sheets, there is always one corner that doesn't want to lay down so I end up laying on the bed stretched across it, and picking up the corner and trying to get the sheet over it. I have often wondered how it would look on video.^
  • dailyachesandpains said on Feb 18, 2008....
    Pickers:  I will come back to this post on laundry day to watch that video again!  He makes it look so easy.  I'll be getting wrapped up and in a fight with the fitted sheet by the time I'm halfway through...watch, lol!
  • wakingharmony said on Feb 18, 2008....
    LMBO.... your too funny  Yep should try the deep pocket ones and did you know they also have suspenders for sheets... 
  • wakingharmony said on Feb 18, 2008....
    oops.
  • husbandhater said on Feb 18, 2008....
    I hate laundry day so much that my house looks like a couple of bags exploded in it. And they won't help me with it. I work 16hrs aday come home and do laundry that I must fold and put up too with a couple of hours to spare befor I have to go back to the job? Huh?
  • travelr712 said on Feb 18, 2008....
    when i did laundry yesterday, i actually ended up with an extra sock that matched the lone one that had been sitting on top of my dresser for a month, pining away for it's mate. did the sock gods take pitty on me for once? and yeah, fitted sheets suck!
  • CreativeWoman said on Feb 18, 2008....
    I'm not fond of the fitted sheets either.  I don't mind doing the laundry.  It's the putting away that I don't like.  Can't clean laundry just be happy in the basket until I want to wear it again?  lol

    CW
  • Lucytorial said on Feb 18, 2008....
    CW, your after my heart, generally I have a clean laundry chair, there it stays and gets rummaged through until such time as the dirty laundry chair has more on it...

    I also don't iron... well not much, I have 1 dress I have to iron and even then I've taken to sending it to the dry cleaners I'm such a lazy cow...
  • travelr712 said on Feb 18, 2008....
    i too draw the line at ironing lucy. but i've found that if you let the laundry complete the 'cool down' cycle in the driar, and then take it out while it's still a little warm and hang it right away, no ironing needed. god, should a man know this much about laundry?
  • Lucytorial said on Feb 18, 2008....
    well lets say that at least you don't have smelly clothes and rely on a wife/mommy/girlfriend/friend to do it for you.. can't behalf bad and the little man will also get a good wrap when he grows up knowing how to do it.
  • travelr712 said on Feb 18, 2008....
    well, yeah, i don't feel bad about it really, i guess i'm just a bit 'old school', was raised in a different world and all that...
  • CreativeWoman said on Feb 18, 2008....
    Lucy,
    There is a product here that is a spray on wrinkle releaser.  You spray the piece of clothing, smooth it out and let it dry.  No ironing.  I could kiss the person who invented that.  :-)

    CW
  • wombat said on Feb 19, 2008....
    Well, once again, I get behind....sorry I disappeared....
     
    D6fer:  We have the deep fitted sheets, but I think the mattress is still deeper!
     
    Daily:  I seldom have to fold fitted sheets, but when I do, I just go with the "tuck and good luck" method!
     
    quietone:  I'm with you...and that was funny....fit to be tied....!
     
    skald:  No, you aren't a weirdo.  Flat sheets are definitly easier!
     
    Capital:  What a "capital " idea!  Ha....I often get crumbs in the bed!
     
    pickersplock:  How cool!  That works!  Thanks for the link--that's man's got it going on!  I recently saw a lady folding a T-shirt on video, and when I tried that, it worked also!
     
    wakingharmony:  We do have the deep pockets--I think they "shrink" when they are fresh from the dryer though.  No suspenders, however!
     
    husbandhater:  I'm sorry you don't have help with the laundry and such.  Maybe it's time to set up some new ground rules?
     
    CreativeWoman:  When I lived alone, I kept my laundry in a basket for the most part!  But then, I had to go to the laundromat in those days.
     
    Lucy::  I like the "laundry chairs!"  I hate ironing, too--but find myself doing it.  (On the floor!)
     
    Travelr712:  You are right--If you do the laundry right, it cuts down on ironing.  And yes, a man should know about laundry, too!
     
    CreativeWoman:  I've seen this stuff advertised and wondered if it worked.  Thanks!
     
    All of you--thanks.  I don't mean to write posts, then not answer.  I was surprised to see the number of "looksies" and comments!
     
    wombat
     
     
     
  • wombat said on Feb 19, 2008....
    I didn't mean to leave out a couple:  Then I hit "edit" and missed the mark--I hit "wombat" and it took me off the page!
     
    uniquely-ironic:  Hope you looked at pickersplocks video.  I usually just ball up the sheets, tooo.
     
    Alyss:  I don't like doing laundry that much--but there are worse chores.  Cleaning the bathroom and vacuuming!
     
    Thanks again!
  • travelr712 said on Feb 19, 2008....
    well wombie, for 5 years it was just me and my daughter. have you ever seen an 8 year old do laundry? i had to learn all about keeping a house in that time. turned out to be valuable experience in my later life :-)
  • wombat said on Feb 19, 2008....
    travelr712:   You are to be commended......I didn't mean anything by the comment.
  • travelr712 said on Feb 19, 2008....
    oh i know wombie, i didn't take it as you did. sorry if i sounded like it. and thank you for the condeme... err, commentat... err, commence... oh hell, you know what i mean! :-)
  • Lucytorial said on Feb 19, 2008....
    actually wombie I like cleaning my bathroom (how weird is that!) I also don't mind doing the dishes, laundry just sucks at the moment because I DONT have a washing machine, laundromats are expensive so I'm playing that "hand wash maid shit"
  • crybabylu said on Feb 19, 2008....
    You got quite a list of comments, are you getting writer's cramps yet? {smile}
  • Lucytorial said on Feb 19, 2008....
    hello Dee, did you know that writers block has a proper word?? I found out today its called mogigraphia... and I'm trying to use it 10 times in comments, thats number 2.  *-}
  • Lucytorial said on Feb 19, 2008....
    wombat

    Wombat... I just found the cutest photo of you as a baby!!!!!!!! here look isn't it cute!


  • wombat said on Feb 20, 2008....

    travelr712:  Ha......ok.  All good. You are hereby "condemmed."  Ha....No, I mean commended......

    Lucy:  While I like a clean bathroom, I hate having to do it.  I don't like washing things by hand because I hate wringing them out enough to dry.  Going to the laundramat sucks, so I feel for you there.

    crybabylu:  I know....alot of people interested in sheets?  Go figure.  But I appreciate it all.  I have been in a "hit or miss" mood lately.  I have scanned around, commmented here and there, and I know I have missed some posts--probably yours....  I've been in a weird mood.

    Lucy:  Aww.....my baby pictures.......I miss my mommie......I would write something more profound about my childhood here, but I am suffering from mogigraphia......

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