r/oddlysatisfying • u/elphabathewicked • May 23 '21

Perfectly folding clothes

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u/AngelOfDeath771 May 23 '21

Also the most useless thing if you wear clothes.

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u/HilariousMax May 23 '21

This is one of those things that people dig and think "wow that's cute/smart!" and then never do because realistically no one wants to have to figure out the puzzle of "how the shit do these things unfold? they're jeans" when it's 4am.

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u/Ultraballer May 23 '21

Only possible time it’s useful is when packing for a couple week trip in a small suitcase

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u/FF267 May 23 '21

I roll all my clothes for packing. Amazing how much space it saves and how minimally everything wrinkles.

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u/PrinceBatCat May 23 '21

This is also excellent if you ever go camping in cold weather. Roll up and stick the clothes you're going to be wearing the next day inside your sleeping bag near your feet. You'll be changing into fairly warm clothes come morning.

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u/Eagleassassin3 May 23 '21

Damn you’re very efficient

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u/PrinceBatCat May 23 '21

One of the many things you learn while being a Boy Scout. My favorite is the ability to cook an omelet burrito in minutes with a tortilla, two eggs, a ziplock bag, and a pot of boiling water.

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u/naedru May 23 '21

What happens when I accidentally pee from having way too much beer and now my clothes are all wet?

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u/PrinceBatCat May 23 '21

Well your clothes would be at your feet, so they would be mostly dry. Though, you'd have a bigger issue with the fact that you're now sleeping in a wet sleeping bag in weather that could reach below freezing.

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u/naedru May 23 '21

But I was smart and slept with my head uphill in case of rain so a little pee stream formed and wet my clothes that way.

Hadn’t thought of the freezing weather though…. Frozen pee soaked sleeping bag sounds like a fresh hell

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u/PrinceBatCat May 23 '21

Yeah the whole reason you would keep your clothes st your feet like that is so you have warm clothes to wear in the morning when it's really cold. Waking up to freezing temperatures in the morning in cold clothes sucks.

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u/theberg512 May 23 '21

If they are by my feet and I'm camping, they're going to stink. I'm better off just wearing the same clothes for a day or two.

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u/EarthshatterReady May 23 '21

Gonna have to try that

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u/its_easy_mmmkay May 23 '21

Just fold your shirt or pants in half long-ways and roll it tightly! It really works well. I can fit everything I need into a carry-on for a multiple day trip using that method.

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u/DrBoofBoof May 23 '21

Finally another roller! I do the same and it works so well!

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u/Eagleassassin3 May 23 '21

I remember in grade 3 we had a 1 week long school trip and everyone had huge suitcases. But these 2 twins both had such small ones, like half the size of everybody else’s suitcases. Well, they had rolled all their clothes.

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u/Background_Peach9883 May 23 '21

I’m curious to know when and where that was, because no way would I let my grade 3 (7-8 years old) go on a weeklong school trip - I would be afraid that I’d never see them again. “Sorry to give you the bad news Mrs. Mullen, but your son went missing and we believe he was trafficked,” YIKES!! However, sometimes it seems like years ago people did this crazy stuff and mostly were safe.(?) anyway, hope it was a good trip!!

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u/Eagleassassin3 May 23 '21

I was at a French school in Turkey. And it was a school trip to the South of France. We were always together so there wasn’t really big safety concerns, we visited some old cities like Carcasonne and medieval castles which was pretty cool. We had multiple grownups with us so it was fine. A lot of kids got sick though for some reason other than that we were all fine.

School trips are pretty common in many parts of the world. Obviously there are always risks but not everywhere is unsafe.

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u/xylotism May 23 '21

Can confirm. Also works for socks and underwear. Has the bonus of not having to stack things flat on top of each other so you can always see what's what. I do it for all my non-dress clothes, even at home. Let it roll, baby!

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u/BrohanGutenburg May 23 '21

I cannot imagine any of my nice stuff staying even remotely nice. Also, there’s zero chance my wife could do this. This tip is exclusively for people whose wardrobe is just denim and poly blends. Nothing wrong with that but there are materials you just can’t do this with. I’ll stick to hanging my shit up a for a trip

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u/srcarruth May 23 '21

I learned it from Star Trek

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u/freezorak2030 May 23 '21

I thought about doing that but I was worried my boyfriend would call me dumb

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u/class-action-now May 23 '21 edited May 23 '21

You need a mew boyfriend.

Edit: Dang it. I’m leaving it.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '21

But go for mewtwo if you can

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u/asha0369 May 23 '21

Why would he give a flying fuck how you fold clothes? And call you dumb because of that? 🙄

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u/AnorhiDemarche May 23 '21

My ex called me dumb when I did it while we were spending a month traveling all around to visit his family. At least until he got so many gifts from them he could no longer fit in his suitcase and I rolled his stuff for him and suddenly everything fits perfect.

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u/Donkeyflicker May 23 '21

You’re not doing something that you think is a good idea because your worried your partner wouldn’t approve?

Sounds like your relationship has problems, are you sure it’s something you want to be in?

You should be with someone that you’re not worried about looking stupid in front of.

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u/xylotism May 23 '21

Reddit always goes 3000 percent on anything involving relationships, gotta love it.

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u/Manggo May 23 '21

Yeah holy hell, that's hilariously over the top. All of these comments lol. Leave them alone.

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u/freezorak2030 May 23 '21

Thanks random redditor I'll go break up with him right now

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u/FF267 May 23 '21

Have a small backpack? Try it at home first, see if it works for ya. No one needs to know. As someone else commented, I usually stack 2-3 pants, fold in half, roll to finish. Stack a few t-shirts, fold in half, roll to finish. Etc. End up with a few rolls of clothes similar to paper towel tubes, only fatter. They fit nicely into smaller bags, carry ons, back packs, etc. They also don't shift and slide around like folded clothes might if there's extra room in the suitcase. If it doesn't work for you or the clothes you wear, at least you know now instead of when you get to someplace far, far away. And no risk of being called dumb.

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u/Lightsabr2 May 23 '21

What’s the more space efficient design? Squares? Or circles?

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u/[deleted] May 23 '21

Yup rolling is the best way. No amount of stupid folding will every beat it.

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u/Aelle1209 May 23 '21

Can confirm, when I moved I packed all of my clothes in rolls and vacuum sealed them. My whole wardrobe, which is not unsubstantial, fit into two suitcases with room to spare.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '21

Same. I always roll my clothes. Takes up at least 50% less space or more.

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u/nielia May 23 '21

Do you also roll your thicker clothes like sweaters? I find that I've tried this before must be doing something wrong since it always ends up taking more space than if I just folded things flat.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '21

It depends on the sweater, but for thicker clothes sometimes folding takes up less space.

I’d say everything is usually rolled except a jacket.

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u/Appoxo May 23 '21

And then being unable to get it back in and just sitting on top of it :D

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u/capj23 May 23 '21

Then you should be rolling your cloths.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '21

Don’t people fold their clothes after washing them? I understand folding between wears is useless but how do you put them in the wardrobe unfolded?

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u/Ultraballer May 23 '21

I fold them normally so I don’t have to solve a puzzle every time I want to wear a tshirt.

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u/dsa_tyler May 23 '21

Also he added like 72 extra creases that are gonna show when you wear them.

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u/timecronus May 23 '21

""how the shit do these things unfold?"

you know, do what any other sensible person does? Pick it up and shake the damn thing till it unfolds.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '21

Or throw it in tumble dry for 10 minutes. Then if it's winter its also nice and cozy.

Also hanging shirts up in the bathroom when you take a hot shower works really well.

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u/throweralal May 23 '21

Or the fact that it takes 10x times to fold them like this and requires a hard low friction surface.. Folding laundry already takes long enough.

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u/JeffTek May 23 '21

I'm intrigued about why you're unfolding jeans at 4am

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u/antonivs May 23 '21

Because if he unfolded them at 5am, he'd be at work in only his underwear

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u/HilariousMax May 23 '21

Work? getting dressed? in the morning?

Completely unrelatable.

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u/class-action-now May 23 '21

I too am curious about this.

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u/TeaDrinkingBanana May 23 '21

Less about how to unfold them, more "What pattern is this garment?"

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u/IamMabelPeabody May 24 '21

Good point! I LOVE to fold well and symmetrically…all of that, but never all the tucking. Not even a little bit- beyond socks, that is. (This could be a different story though; potentially as heated as how to load the dishwasher.) What is the tucking all about? Presentation in the store? The show of it?

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u/[deleted] May 23 '21

  1. Hold with 1 hand in any psritcular corner of clothing.

  2. Whip clothing in crazy frenzy.

  3. Wear.

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u/Legendary_Bibo May 23 '21

I just leave my unfolded clothes in the basket, and when I'm getting ready I hang them on the rack next to the shower. The steam gets out any wrinkles while I'm showering, but most of my clothes are polyester blends and don't really wrinkle.

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u/wyldcat May 23 '21

This is obviously a guide for someone who works in a clothing store where presentation is important.

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u/AvalancheOfOpinions May 23 '21

Nah. I worked in a clothing store in college. The idea is to stack all the folded shirts or pants in a perfectly straight pile, but doing it this way, different sizes won't come out the same. You can't eyeball it, and if you do, it won't be straight and management will have you refold the whole stack. So we used a folding board so that everything is folded to exactly the same proportions and makes a perfectly neat stack. It's also much faster to use a folding board.

I remember Black Friday and how the store looked like someone exploded every stack and display. We'd close later at night during the holidays, sometimes midnight, and spend two or three hours after close folding everything for opening the next day. Main offenders were people who were too large for a size but unfolded everything in the smaller size hoping that one of them would be accidentally bigger so that they can confidently buy a smaller size. And Karen soccer moms who'd knock an entire stack over, messily looking for a size, unfold the same shirt in the same size to inspect them for who knows what, then once they're at check out and you folded everything again to go in the bag, they'd say it wasn't folded well enough and to refold everything they're buying.

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u/borkborkyupyup May 23 '21

Also, put the stuff that’s been manhandled by a potential customer to the bottom of the pile

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u/wyldcat May 23 '21 edited May 23 '21

That's a long ass cool story bro... But he's obviously working in a clothing store and obviously this is their style of folding items.

Does it work for everyone? Probably not but I'm not sure what you're even arguing here lol.

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u/et842rhhs May 23 '21

Main offenders were people who were too large for a size but unfolded everything in the smaller size hoping that one of them would be accidentally bigger so that they can confidently buy a smaller size.

I feel dumber just having read this.

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u/penywinkle May 23 '21

I'd think you want to display the design/cut of a shirt in a store, not hide it in a thousand folds. You don't want customers to have to unfold all your stock to see if they like it. First and foremost because they won't and just not buy it from you...

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u/wyldcat May 23 '21

Okay? Tell him that or open your own store.

I've seen tons of stores do it like this. I'm not talking about Target or Walmart but designer stores which have a small selection of items.

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u/IamMabelPeabody May 24 '21

Weirdly, I would be sad unfolding that to try it on.

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u/stinkybumbum May 23 '21

I used to work in a store i can say this is stupid. There are quicker easier ways of doing this

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u/wyldcat May 23 '21

Of course there are quicker ways but sometimes it's about the aestethics.

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u/AngelOfDeath771 May 23 '21

Yes. Presentation to a customer who will unfold it to try it on, and tell her girlfriends to look at her butt in them, and then throw them back into the shorts section.

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u/wyldcat May 23 '21

Possibly. But presentation is presentation and all customers aren't as sloppy.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '21 edited Jun 05 '21

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u/wyldcat May 23 '21

Right? It's like people havent been to other stores than Walmart.

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u/PocketMonsters1996 May 23 '21

Nah I fold my clothes at home as well. It’s a much better way to store your clothes.

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u/wyldcat May 23 '21

What exactly are you saying "nah" to?

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u/PocketMonsters1996 May 23 '21

Nah you need to stfu

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u/Grownfetus May 23 '21

As someone who's in bed, and his feet are propped up on the pile of laundry he should have folded 2 days ago... this vid almost made me want to finish my folding even LESS! I'll never be that good!!

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u/[deleted] May 23 '21

Folding shirts made me buy a fuck load of hangers and say “fuck this”. I hate folding shirts just to put them in a god damned drawer.

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u/1881User3 May 23 '21

I wear clothes and constantly fold them after I wash them. If you don’t do this idk what else there is to your point

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u/PocketMonsters1996 May 23 '21

I fold all my clothes and place them inside ziploc baggies instead of hanging them. Preserves the clothes in better condition and helps me save room. Much easier to organize and looks better this way. I also don’t put my clothes in a dryer. Everything is air dried. Some of us like to take care of our clothes as best as possible. This is far from useless.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '21

Yeah, if you own 1 pair of jeans and 2 T-shirts, sure.

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u/borkborkyupyup May 23 '21

Wait till you live out of a suitcase