I was in my late 30s when I finally learned this trick. So many unnecessary years of wrinkly sheets...

I probably need to take a course on this cuz i couldn't follow the instruction...i still live with wrinkly fitted sheets.

I've been doing this for a few years. It's definitely better, but not perfect!

I also use the trick of storing a set of sheets inside the matching pillowcase - keeps the linen closet much tidier!

Even after following hte directions, watching a youtube video, and everything, I do the process and still end up balling it up and shoving it in the cupboard.

I will say, her instructions make it sound much more complicated than it actually is. Just take two of the fitted sheet corners and tuck them inside the corners at the opposite end... then you're left with relatively flat piece of linen to fold.

Love the pillowcase trick... hadn't heard of that one.

Folding sheets in prison....gotta love Martha :)

Really? People hadn't figured this out on their own? I must be smarter than the average bear.

I've come to peace with the fact that my fitted sheets will always be folded a little lumpy, a little bumpy, not quite square, not quite as nicely folded as the flat sheet.

They are folded, they fit in the underbed bin. No one sees them but me. Life is good.

Rather spend my time and energy on something with a greater return, like experimenting to find the best brownie recipe.

I do this thing where I take the fitted sheet, fold it into a lump, and then just don't care what it looks like while it's folded because it's in the freakin' linen closet. If it wrinkles, the wrinkles pull out when it goes on the bed. My friends call me a neat freak, but I have never understood why anybody would give a damn about this.

I remember seeing this demonstrated by Heloise on TV back in the 80s.

I discovered this on pinterest (not Martha, but some other lovely lady) and it totally made my day...does that make me a household geek? I may not have clean, shiny toilets, but my fitted sheets are sitting neat and tidy, darnit!

This is how my mom taught me to fold them when I was wee. She also taught me hospital corners, and all sorts of other linen-related things. I took them for granted, thinking everyone got these lovely lessons. I'll have to tell her she had it down before Martha! (Yes, my mom is older than Martha, so she was already all over it.)

Fitted sheets are horrible no matter how you fold them, they always ruck up in use and show what should be decently covered. Better to spend time learning to make a perfect hospital corner with a proper flat sheet.

lol, me too!

I can't clean my entire kitchen, make meal, plan a party and practice folding fitted sheets the Martha way.....this is getting stressful.....lol

Even folded properly, fitted sheets don't store as nicely as flat ones. I'd like to know what size flat sheet is needed for making hospital corners on a 15-inch thick queen mattress. King size isn't long enough.

I saw this from Martha years ago and still haven't gotten it down. All the elastic...meh. I'm in the same camp as RedZinger (who made me lol)!

i took initiative on my own. one day i wanted to figure this out and, when i bought a new fitted sheet, i paid attention to what was going on when i unfolded it, practiced a bit and learned to refold it. then i put it on my bed and never looked back.

maybe understanding rocket science merely involves having a bit of curiosity and initiative.

I learned this trick years ago watching Martha on Oprah and have used it ever since. A total game-changer!

Two ways to store sets of sheets:
1. Sandwich your pillowcases between the fitted and flat sheet.
2. Place fitted, flat and one pillowcase inside the second pillowcase.
I like #2. Not that I do it! LOL

I have the easiest way: there's only bed in my house, therefore only one set of sheets at a time so they go right from the dryer to the bed and I don't have to think about them being folded "correctly" or wrinkled :o)

Please, what we're discussing is how (and whether) to get the fitted sheet to LIE flat in our linen closets. Not "lay."

(I learned both sheet-folding and grammar as a kid.)

I do this except instead of the last step I roll the sheet tightly and neatly. Then I can always distinguish my flat sheets from my fitted sheets and it's easier to find pairs.

Speaking as a linguist the lie/lay distinction is becoming blurred, so that talking about something "laying flat"is fine. Things like this has happened countless times during the evolution of the English language and will continue long after we're gone. It's just natural language change. Every native speaker of English has learned grammar as a kid before they've stepped foot in a classroom.

My grandmother (who would have been almost 100) had this yellowed newspaper clipping with these instructions hanging in her laundry room published by Dear Abby decades (maybe a half century) ago... I've always tried to do this perfectly like she (and my mom) did but give up and feel incompetent every time. But I will say that they didn't have king sheets.