Working on folding and hanging up the laundry / myLot

United States

June 22, 2025 8:11am CST

I have a confession--I RARELY fold my laundry. I do it (wash/dry) on a regular basis obviously but after many years of working at The Gap I simply cannot force myself to fold and hang clothes even 20+ years later. I would agree that it sounds insane but my sister (who is a much better housekeeper than I) is the same way. She won't fold clean laundry--at least hers. It is a real sort of form of PTSD.

I started looking for my new bikini last night and couldn't find it in the heaps of clothes on my dresser. I looked again this morning and nothing. So I've been doing short shifts of folding/hanging. I want to wear the new one today at the pool. I'm about half way through the pile and I still haven't found it. I have found that I need to get more hangers though.

Wish me luck on Operation Bikini Rescue.

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11 responses

Amber

@AmbiePam (99642)

• United States

23h

I wish you a speedy recovery of the bikini!

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snowy

@snowy22315 (191468)

• United States

22h

Folding clothes is horrible, and mind numbingly boring. I don't blame you. The only time I fold is when I want to put something in the drawers. I do stick stuff on hangers though when I can.

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NJ Chicaa

@NJChicaa (123260)

• United States

22h

I rely on Downy Wrinkle Release spray!

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snowy

@snowy22315 (191468)

• United States

22h

@NJChicaa I use a wrinkle releaser too when I need to. Dollar General sells a big bottle of it for a couple of bucks.

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Four Walls

@FourWalls (75924)

• United States

20h

When I got my shirt at the Jimmy Stewart Museum I folded it at the counter, and the man said, “If you hadn’t told me you were in the military I would’ve known by the way you folded that shirt.”

The great thing about my life is that I don’t have a lot of laundry under most circumstances (the exceptions being the winter clothes and bed sheets [and yes, I can fold a fitted sheet]). Glad you found the bikini.

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Juliaacv

@Juliaacv (53967)

• Canada

23h

Good luck on the rescue. I have to force myself to put my clothes away after I fold them or I would have far too many of them. I have my husband put his clothes away that I have folded. We bought him 5 new shirts yesterday, so I had better see some old shirts make their way to the rag bag for cleaning or I know that his drawers will be stuffed too full to keep the wrinkles away.

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Traceyjayne

@Traceyjayne (2404)

• United Kingdom

18h

I fold the laundry ....ironing though is another matter ....that rarely gets done !

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Jimlos Tatooth

@Ineeddentures (5603)

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19h

I already know that you found the bikini I saw the post. No picture though Anyway folding laundry, Yep and out it away Takes a minute or so I don't fold socks or pants though or joggers Just put them away where they go

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (164257)

• United States

12h

I certainly hope it is not completely lost in space.

@DaddyEvil (151547)

• United States

23h

Pretty makes a pile of clean clothes on her bedroom floor and puts dirty clothes in a basket in her room. I fold and hang my clothes, normally, as soon as the dryer shuts off. I don't like wrinkles in my clothing. When Pretty was teens and younger, I hung her clothes on hangers and folded the clothes that go in her drawer and told her to put them away.... I stopped doing that when she came home from college. I do make her keep her bedroom door closed so I don't have to see the mess in her bedroom, though.