The irony? Fitted sheets were undoubtedly invented to make bed-making more efficient. We can thank Bertha Berman for patenting the fitted bed sheet back in 1959. The original patent application even ...

We have come to terms with the fact that some of life's tasks are more difficult than others. One of the more common challenges is how to fold a fitted sheet that fits snuggly around your mattress.

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Folding a fitted sheet is one of those chores that feels impossible to master — no matter how hard you try, those pesky elastic edges never seem to line up. We’ve all been there (and I'm sure we've ...

Lora McLaughlin Peterson with Lorafied has a tip to help us fold that tricky fitted sheet. Lay out the sheet, elastic-side up. Fold in the ends to make a square. Continue to fold like normal. Watch ...

It's never too late to tame the closet chaos — and finally learn how to fold the dreaded fitted sheet Clothes balled up in the back of your drawer? Not anymore! PEOPLE tapped two folding pros to teach ...

If you’ve gone your entire life not knowing how to properly fold a fitted sheet, you’re not alone. Throwing a sheet straight from the dryer into a heap in the closet is many people's go-to method of ...

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We all know the horrors of folding a fitted sheet for the first time. It goes a little like this: violently folding and refolding the sheet, sighing in frustration, cursing and eventually balling it ...