On Fri, 01 Jul 2016 09:22:09 -0400, Brooklyn1
> wrote:
>On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 04:21:55 -0500, MaryL >
>wrote:
>
>>On 6/28/2016 2:33 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at 2:39:00 PM UTC-4, Nancy Young wrote:
>>>> On 6/28/2016 11:37 AM, graham wrote:
>>>>> On 28/06/2016 6:08 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> I get the top sheet, the pillowcases and the bottom sheet
>>>>>> into even-ish rectangles, stack them and roll. They fit
>>>>>> into the linen closet that way and they're all together.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All of this might take a minute. What's the big deal.
>>>>
>>>>> Because it is so unnecessary.
>>>>
>>>> Well, I know you're busy inventing the cure for all deadly diseases
>>>> while finding a solution for world hunger, so your days are very
>>>> busy. I can chit chat or watch tv while folding the sheets so they
>>>> aren't wrinkly when it's time to use them. I even managed to fold
>>>> sheets when I was working crazy hours.
>>>
>>> Like washing dishes by hand or hanging laundry to dry, I have
>>> much, much better things to do than fold sheets. Virtually
>>> anything is better than housework, although reading books
>>> is my first preference.
>>>
>>> I don't care if sheets are wrinkled. I take 'em out of the
>>> dryer and pretty much count on the fact that they'll be back
>>> on the bed by the time I'm ready to go to sleep.
>>>
>>> Sometimes nearly a week passes before I fold a basket of
>>> laundry (not until I'm ready to use that basket again to
>>> do another load). Wrinkly socks and skivvies are far down
>>> on my list of concerns.
>>>
>>> I immediately hang up the clothes that I wear to work, as soon
>>> as they come out of the dryer. I'm not completely without
>>> standards.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>
>>When I was a child, my grandmother actually *ironed* her sheets.
>>Fortunately, my mother considered that a waste of time, so I am happy to
>>admit that I have never ironed sheets. In fact, I normally buy clothing
>>that does not need to be ironed. I do have a steamer that I use on the
>>few items that need some extra help.
>>
>>MaryL
>
>Back then there weren't any fitted sheets and no iron fabrics had not
>yet been invented... you'd not want to sleep on unironed linen
>bedding. My grandmother owned a B&B (used to be called tourist
>homes), she used a mangle for pressing bedding.
>http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=mangle+iron
My sister was so good with a Mangle that she did her entire family's
wash with a mangle. Blouses, shirts, pants, sheets and pillowcases.
She was a wonder.
Janet US