Folding tee shirts is really easy if you make yourself a folding board, or somehow get your hands on an official one from The Gap or some other retailer.
The boards are roughly the size of an 8.5 x 11 pad of paper…so if you have one of those around the house, you can totally use the cardboard backing as a folding board (and, if you don’t have a pad of paper, go ahead and life one from the supply room at work…because “they owe you”, and you never really steal anything from the office, aside from all that Sweet n’ Low you stuff into your pockets at the end of the day and think no one notices).
Just lay your tee shirt down on a flat surface with the front down, and then place the board on the back of the shirt, centered where the neck is with the top of the board kissing the top of the shirt (how romantic).
Fold one side of the shirt over the board and into the middle of the shirt (also, conveniently, the middle of the board). Adjust the shirtsleeve so it’s neatly folded against the middle as well…then do the other side.
Now, fold a little bit of the bottom of the shirt towards the bottom of the folding board….and then fold all that over and up to kiss the top of the shirt.
You should now have a tee folded to the size of your folding board, which is a great size for storing in your drawers or on your shelves.
Flip the shirt over, remove the board, and voila!, you’re done.
Don’t feel bad if it never looks quite as good as what they do at The Gap. If you had all day to practice this and did almost nothing but fold over and over again, you’d get perfect at it too. But, even the smallest improvement in neatness and folding technique can save you a lot of space in your closets…and thus a lot of time looking for things too.
Folding things properly…whoddathunk it could be such bliss?
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