1-2-3-Sock Folding
January 21st, 2008
Folding socks: I know a lot of people who don’t like to fold socks. I was taught to take each sock and roll them up and then bring the top over and it becomes a sock roll. For three reasons I can’t stand doing it that way.
• It takes too much time when folding
• It takes too much time when unfolding
• It stretches the tops of some socks
Here are 3 alternative ideas:
• Buy two colors and styles of socks, one for dressy and one for athletic wear then all whites can go in one pile and all darks in another pile and they match every time.
• Take matching socks and lay one on top of the other and fold over—-done
• If you have children, put all their socks into a basket (one for each child) and let them fold them, or sort for matches when they put on socks.
As a professional home organizer I am always looking for shortcuts to everything and for sock folding this is about as short as you can get. Happy folding. Do you have any other methods of sock folding I could share?
January 28th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
I have done this where all my socks are the same, white or black. Then I just put them all going in the same direction in a pile in the drawer. My husband likes his folded over in a set. No problem. Works great!