Tuesday, February 01, 2011

T-Shirt Folder

My brother-in-law announced one evening that his two youngest boys are in charge of folding clothes nowadays. (The boys are 7 and 10.) He had found a youtube link on how to make a T-shirt folder and had made two for home use -- one for the adult-sized shirts and another for the kiddie-sized ones.

The below is not the version they have but I think if ever I venture into making such a contraption, I would use this particular version, mainly because it lays flat and has the option for portability.



When I mentioned this at home, GI immediately referred me to Sheldon of The Big Bang Theory. (The Big Bang Theory is a funny TV series. We enjoy watching this even if it is rated PG. ) He showed me this clip which introduced me to the commercially available T-shirt folder Flip Fold.


(Gosh, the inventions people think up. Wish I'd cooked up something like that.)

Yes, one might think this product is something people can live without, which in all honesty IS something people can live without. However, having such a contraption is quite cool.

I found out from Z that Eldest Sis has something like this. She had gotten it when her two kids were much smaller and unable to fold clothes on their own. By getting the Flip Fold, her children were able to help her with the chores. (My sister has always been a smart one.)

Call me weird but having a perfectly aligned stack of T-shirts, folded in practically the same manner all of the time, goes with my grain. I like there to be order (even if the house is an absolute mess). If I could get all the clothes, towels and linen piled up perfectly ... wow! ... I'd be impressed at myself.

Anyway, since I didn't see myself buying a Flip Fold nor constructing a home-made one any time soon, I settled for the next best thing I could think of ... a placemat.
I mean really, when we buy t-shirts from the department store, it is just a piece of cardboard that comes with the t-shirt. I didn't see any reason a placemat couldn't do the trick. The placemat I picked had the advantage of rigidity, in fact.

Yes, since MacGyver purchased a new set of plastic placemats for us, the set we had with flowers on one side and "cork"on the other has been laying idle in the dining room. I pulled the one I used to use (the one with the tulips) and folded shirts that had been washed earlier that day. It worked great as a guide for foilding the t-shirts. The only problem was that our drawer space is too narrow for the now perfectly aligned shirts.

Not to worry, MyGirl has volunteered to assist me if ever I decide to build a t-shirt folder in the future. Until then, my placemats will have to do.

1 comment:

prinfermin said...

Yes, we do have 2 of that in fact since I wanted to have one for each of them. Although they hardly ever use it (I still do sometimes when I try to make my towels look nice in the linen closet), at least they are now used to the idea that folding clothes is one of their tasks and they do it without a quibble. They even load and unload my dryer :)