Hello, my friends. This week, we've decided to do another video all about
folding because you guys seem to have so many great questions on the subject. So
today we're gonna cover how to fold something with a hood a.k.a. a hoodie, how
to fold your towels beautifully and perfectly like they're in a laundry
commercial, how to fold a dress shirt using a humble magazine.
And Chad and I are gonna break it down for you and show you,
"Does the Japanese-folding t-shirt trick work better
than the initial folding t-shirt trick that we showed you?" So stay tuned
to the end to find that out. Oh, and I have one more cool, unexpected folding tip
for you, which you have to stick around for until the very end. All right, let's
get to it. We'll start things off with the hooded shirt. And the issue here is when
you're stacking your hooded shirts and this is a pile of hooded shirts folded in
the method I'm about to show you, oftentimes what happens is you get
unevenness, you get lumpiness or you get this old-dog-tongue-looking thing sticking
out of the side of your shirts if you're folding a bunch of them and they get
floppy. So I fiddled around with it and I think I've come up with something that
makes a lot of sense. Take that hood and flip it inward. And then this is basically
going to create a mock crewneck. And then you're just going to fold. Now be aware
it'll be a little bit lumpy because you're dealing with that extra fabric. But it's
nothing that you can't stack and kind of hide. And I really think that this method
works the best. You see with a little bit of smoothing, we've completely concealed
that hood. Now I know this is a thinner top, but this would also work for
sweaters. And then you've got a pretty good profile. This is going to be pretty
simple to stack, and I think that works really well. An alternative to this if you
want it is that you could tuck the hood right into the neck and then that would
completely bury the hood in the shirt and then you could just fold it. Again you're
gonna be dealing with a little bit of lumpiness, but no big deal because when
you're actually folding, you will completely conceal...let me just untwist
that. You'll completely conceal that hood, okay? And it's all about the smoothing.
You see? Like smooth peanut butter, that's what you got to do. I don't know about
you, but when I am at a fancy hotel or spa and I see the towels, I just get excited.
It's kinda weird. They know how to fold their towels. And most of us when these
come out of the dryer, we just do a fold, a fold, a fold. We get some
sloppy-looking square. We can raise the bar.
We can do a little bit better than that. So I'm going to show
you how to achieve this look. It takes seconds to do. It looks beautiful, really
high-impact, really simple. Let's do it. So you're gonna start off with your towel.
And if you have a pattern as I do, you're going to put the patterned side facing
down. You're just going to flatten out that towel as much as you can. Now you're
going to meet each corner sets together like so, get it nice and taut, then you're
going to marry these. They have said their vows. Everything is official. Give it a
quick shake. Now what you're going to do is you're going to take the outer edges,
flip them in one-third, smooth, flip it in another third and you're done. And when
you're stacking your towels, you always want to have the neat edge facing out, and
that way, you're always concealing this edge and of course the side. If you don't
have enough closet space to hang these types of shirts or if you're traveling and
you want to figure out how to fold it beautifully like the way these shirts are
folded in-store is not as hard as you think. All it requires is something simple
like a magazine, and I can even show you exactly how to do it. So the first thing
you have to keep in mind is you want to keep your buttons buttoned. That is going
to help this situation enormously. So definitely have the top one and the bottom
one and just a couple in the middle. Now that that's done and taken care of, flip
the shirt over. And it is all about keeping things smooth, because the
smoother the shirt is as you're going into this, the smoother it's going to come out
when you unfold it. And the less wrinkles, obviously way better. So you're going to
take your magazine and you're just going to place it right below where the collar
is, center right below where the collar is. Now you're going to fold your shirt
as you normally would and linear shirts like these plaid shirts or striped shirts
make life a little bit easier in this situation. So you're going to make sure
you have a nice, straight line and then there's two things you can do with the
sleeve. It doesn't really matter which one you choose. You can do that and fold it
back in on itself, or you can do this neat, little zigzag, which I think is kind
of fun. So you fold it back like this, you fold it over like that, then you fold it
again like this. And of course if the bottom tail is nice and even, you know
that you are definitely on the right track. So we'll fold it in, we'll fold
that cuff in like that. So we are in pretty good shape. You're going to flip
the tail up, the shirt tail up so that you have a nice, even, crisp line right there.
And here comes the beauty shot. Just fold it in half right up to the top of where
that magazine is and then gently wiggle it out. Put it to the side. You can read that
later. Flip the shirt over and you can stack it in your dresser. You can put it
in a suitcase. It looks beautiful and it's not going to wrinkle. If you have even one
social media account, I am sure you have seen the like five-second, Japanese t-shirt
folding trick somewhere. So I'm going to show you how it's done. It takes a little
bit of practice but it does work. Pinch right here at the neck line on the
left-hand side of the shirt. That way, you can have the logo facing up. And then
you're going to come down about halfway, so just about diagonal from where the
armpit is at the halfway point of the t-shirt. Now you're going to take your
left hand. You are going to flip it all the way over and pinch the bottom side of
this shirt. And I'm going to pull my right arm through like this. Give the t-shirt a
quick little shake. Lay it down on the opposite side. And then to complete it,
I'm just going to fold it back on itself like this. This is a pretty easy method
once you do it a couple of times. I can show you. You can get pretty efficient at
it actually. Pinch, pinch, grab, pull through, flip over. Okay, it's a little
sloppy but I mean you get the idea. It looks great. This does look beautiful.
It does take very little time to do once you've mastered it,
but I am curious as I'm sure you are.
Does this method work better than the first t-shirt folding method I showed
you in our first folding video? So to settle the score, I'm going to get Chad to
fold some t-shirts like this, I will fold some t-shirts like this and we are gonna
show you who wins. Chad put the camera down. Let's do this.
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And one little bonus tip I wanted to share with you because you know we're
classy here at Clean My Space. I wanna show you how to fold your toilet paper
into a point in case you're having a guest over. You know, it's just a nice, little way to say,
"Hey, I care." All right, so what you're gonna do, let's imagine that this is
hanging on its little toilet paper roll holder. You're gonna take that bottom
piece and flip it up a third of the way. And carving that line out with your
fingernails will just help everything stay in place. Then you're going to fold one
edge down to the end of that piece of toilet paper. Then you'll flip the other
side over, creating a perfectly pointed triangle like this. And then when you lift
it up, boom, pointy toilet paper, classy. For the third installment of our folding
videos, I hope it has been educational, informative and fun for you. Let me know
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we were talking about. The second one talks about crazy, cool ways to hang up
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