S/O YHL. Someone explain this to me

[mrs.jacinthe]

like I'm 5.

Just promise not to compare me to Monica from Friends (I don’t fold my underwear, I swear).

Can someone explain to me why it's wrong/obsessive to fold your underwear? Please? I mean, if Sherry, the doer of all things "right" doesn't fold underwear, WTH does that make me, who has always folded her underwear?

[Deleted]

Aug 30, 2012 14:04:50 GMT -5 mrs.jacinthe said:

like I'm 5.

Just promise not to compare me to Monica from Friends (I don’t fold my underwear, I swear).

Can someone explain to me why it's wrong/obsessive to fold your underwear? Please? I mean, if Sherry, the doer of all things "right" doesn't fold underwear, WTH does that make me, who has always folded her underwear?

Um, twice as right? FWIW, I fold mine too.

I'm confused though - where did that quote about Sherry not folding her undies come from?

[sjh722]

I am an underwear folder too. I never thought anything of it until I went to college and my roommate laughed and told me it was a big waste of time.

[bunnymendelbaum]

I just jam them in the drawer. Especially now that they are tent-size maternity ones. They are all cotton and I don't care if they are wrinkled.

Do you iron your jeans?

[pitterwoo]

I don't understand underwear folding. They just don't really tend to stay folded so it doesn't seem worth it. I fold H's boxers but my stuff just gets thrown in the drawer.

[mrs.jacinthe]

downtonali - It's in the post about spray-painting the stupid hoop.

bunny - LOL! No, I actually don't iron anything. At all. Ever.

[younghouselove]

ha ha, I definitely don't fold my underoos. That is what Lynn the Bin is for. They make these awesome storage bins at a place called Ikea that provide the perfect balance for holding all of your unmentionables with no folding needed. I have a Lynn, Tin and Finn Bin. Here they are all in a row. What a great project, right?

[ssmjlm]

I'm a folder.

Maybe it was in reference to Monica's anal retentiveness and then she had that closet stuffed to the brim in secret?

[darkling_glory]

Aug 30, 2012 14:26:16 GMT -5 younghouselove said:

ha ha, I definitely don't fold my underoos. That is what Lynn the Bin is for. They make these awesome storage bins at a place called Ikea that provide the perfect balance for holding all of your unmentionables with no folding needed. I have a Lynn, Tin and Finn Bin. Here they are all in a row. What a great project, right?

/ded

[emjacobs]

I don't fold my panties, I prefer to keep them in a bunch

[frauschmindy]

I love you, younghouselovetroll.

[emoflamingo]

I'm a folder, so I feel vindicated! (H made fun of me for it once.)

[abeaverhausen]

Aug 30, 2012 14:26:16 GMT -5 younghouselove said:

ha ha, I definitely don't fold my underoos. That is what Lynn the Bin is for. They make these awesome storage bins at a place called Ikea that provide the perfect balance for holding all of your unmentionables with no folding needed. I have a Lynn, Tin and Finn Bin. Here they are all in a row. What a great project, right?

My soda almost came out my nose at the Lynn, Tin, and Finn Bin.

[TBM]

Aug 30, 2012 14:33:56 GMT -5 emoflamingo said:

I'm a folder, so I feel vindicated! (H made fun of me for it once.)

lol

I used to be a folder (I love the nice little stacks), but it never stayed that way so I stopped.

I felt vindicated when I read something from an organizing pro who said it was a waste of time to fold them since they don't stay that way...just throw them in a drawer/bin/whatever and move on.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Ok, question #2, then ...

Why do your underwear not stay folded? Is it because you all have fancy silky underoos? My plain jane cotton ones stay folded just fine ...

FWIW, I'm kinda googly-eyed at myself for having to ask such dumb questions, but please just bear with me. If I asked anyone I know in real life, they'd think I was crazy/nosy/weird. Which is not necessarily untrue, but nonetheless, I feel better asking internet relative-strangers.

[darkling_glory]

I don't fold my undies but I stack them up all nice so I can just grab the top pair of the stack and be done (like at Victoria's Secret). The ones I don't like so much stay on the bottom of the stack. I also "layer" my bras on top of one another by the cups and stack those behind the undies.

My underwear drawer is pretty.

[bethaboo]

I fold mine and, for the most part, they stay folded. I really want some drawer dividers though - I think I might just toss them in the drawer, organized by type, if I had those.

[ssmjlm]

Mine stay folded. FWIW I only fold in half, then just stack in the drawer.

[TBM]

I guess if you wear the top pair they would stay stacked, but I dress like a five year old and wear whatever I am in the mood to wear, which could be the the fourth pair down or something, and taking them out messes up the rest of the pile. I just reach in and grab what I want, and don't want to be bothered making it all pretty again.

I go through phases though. I recently got new inserts for my dresser, and I may go back to folding when I put them in.

[mrssavy42112]

I don’t fold them. I shove them in there too. I’m pretty sure no one will notice if they’re wrinkled under my skirt.

[315bride]

I just stack mine up in my undies drawer, unfolded. But I have folded in half before. I think it's whatever works for the space you're using. If I had to store vertically, in a row, I might even fold in thirds or quarters. Oh yeah.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Just so I'm not being completely nosy about everyone else ...

I'm a folder. Crotch up to waistband, then in thirds. So technically I guess I fold them in 6ths. I do the same thing to H's underwear, although they take up a little more space.

[Deleted]

I fold mine in half and then half again so fourths. And they are plain old boy short Hanes and they stay folded.

How did we go from an ORB kiddie basketball hoop to underwear folding?

[mrs.jacinthe]

Aug 30, 2012 15:11:49 GMT -5 downtonali said:

I fold mine in half and then half again so what is that, fourths?

How did we go from an ORB kiddie basketball hoop to underwear folding?

Well, I guess because I was concerned at being more obsessive than Sherry. (Thank goodness I'm not!) And it just degraded from there.

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Aug 30, 2012 15:13:23 GMT -5 mrs.jacinthe said:

Aug 30, 2012 15:11:49 GMT -5 downtonali said:

I fold mine in half and then half again so what is that, fourths?

How did we go from an ORB kiddie basketball hoop to underwear folding?

Well, I guess because I was concerned at being more obsessive than Sherry. (Thank goodness I'm not!) And it just degraded from there.

As long as you don't walk around pointing a can of spray paint at everyting you see, I think you are fine.

[salsaverde]

I fold too, mostly because I an obsession with buying multiples at a time and our drawers are pretty small, they need to be neat.

[roselis]

I have a bin in my drawer that I just toss them into. When I was married, I folded XH's boxers. It was the only way to get them all to fit.

[peach]

Tomorrow's post on YHL will be how to spray paint your panties.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Aug 30, 2012 15:47:06 GMT -5 peach said:

Tomorrow's post on YHL will be how to spray paint your panties.

/dead

[lemondrop]

Aug 30, 2012 14:32:44 GMT -5 darkling_glory said:

Aug 30, 2012 14:26:16 GMT -5 younghouselove said:

ha ha, I definitely don't fold my underoos. That is what Lynn the Bin is for. They make these awesome storage bins at a place called Ikea that provide the perfect balance for holding all of your unmentionables with no folding needed. I have a Lynn, Tin and Finn Bin. Here they are all in a row. What a great project, right?

/ded

Samesies!