The best way to fold sheets and towels is…. not to fold them! That’s right. Don’t fold them! Wash them, dry them, and put them back on the bed. Wash them, dry them, and put them back on the hooks and towel bars. Then you never have to fold them. Get in the habit of doing laundry on the same day each week. For example, I wash all the towels late Saturday night. When I wake up in the morning, all the towels are dry and ready to hang back up before anyone else knows they are missing. On Sunday morning I wash all the sheets and the beds are ready for the kids’ nap- or mine if I were so lucky. I’d rather not spend time folding and unfolding sheets and towels. I have a back-up set should they be needed for guests or someone gets sick. But that back-up set sits on the shelf until needed.

If you are folding your sheets and towels, there are plenty of videos to show you how to do it. But honestly, if you just fold every towel the same exact way you fold the first towel, the stack will look great and be space efficient. It sounds simple, but you’d be surprised how many different ways the same person can fold a basket of towels when they aren’t really thinking about it. If you are folding sheets but get frustrated with the fitted sheet, just do your best and then place it inside the pillow case. Then fold the pillow case in half. The pillow case will make it look cleaner and keep the set together in a little packet.

This plan is not for people who like to rotate linens or can’t wait for the time it will take to launder linens. It is for people who don’t want to spend time folding and unfolding linens every week and can coordinate when they wash them. Keep it easy!