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  • squeaky
    squeaky Posts: 14,129 Forumite
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    Make it non-slip cardboard! :)
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  • benjacksmum
    benjacksmum Posts: 123 Forumite
    Oh Wow!!! :T That is fantastic!!!! Don't often get much chance to reply but always read posts and just had to say the link to the Shirt Folding was brilliant! In fact I have already grabbed one of DH's t-shirts off the line and have just mastered the technique!!! Took me a little while to figure out that she was only pinching one layer of material in the middle though :o It works a treat!! Can't wait till I'm next ironing in front of DH lol!!

    Ang x
  • Big_Nige
    Big_Nige Posts: 144 Forumite
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    That video just saved me £14.95+ p&p, excellent
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  • Ticklemouse
    Ticklemouse Posts: 5,030 Forumite
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    Ok - the Old Style new trick of the week, to be perfected by the time of the meet is.....

    FOLDING YOUR SHIRTS :d :D

    Guess what I may be practising this evening - I know I'm a saddo, but then I'm forever babysitting :)
  • Badgergal
    Badgergal Posts: 531 Forumite
    Well, I tried that at home but I don't have the net at home and by the time I got home from work I had forgotten how to do it!!

    So I got the box my hoover came in and started cutting it and taping it together with parcel tape. Boyf was like "What the hell are you making, have you been watching Blue Peter?!". Then when he realised what it was for he was hysterical.

    But he admitted he was impressed when I had uniform stacks of t-shirts etc all exactly the same size and my drawers are now unrecognizably tidy.

    I can see how the proper plastic on might get slightly sharper lines etc, being heavier than cardboard, but hey, mine was FREE! And it is so quick.

    Thanks all!
  • Murtle
    Murtle Posts: 4,154 Forumite
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    oh my goodness that's very scary - what's wrong with the *normal* way of folding clothes???!!!
  • Sarahsaver
    Sarahsaver Posts: 8,390 Forumite
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    Ticklemouse wrote:
    Ok - the Old Style new trick of the week, to be perfected by the time of the meet is.....

    FOLDING YOUR SHIRTS :d :D

    Guess what I may be practising this evening - I know I'm a saddo, but then I'm forever babysitting :)
    Before I had left primary school I knew how to fold shirts, jumpers and trousers, polish shoes and sew a button on. Thanks Dad :) he thought it was important having been in the army, and actually its a useful skill the nylon tracky bottom wearing brigade are missing out on.
    Did you know theres a proper way to fold trousers... ;)
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  • DaisyNelson
    DaisyNelson Posts: 763 Forumite
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    One of largish polythene chopping boards would probably do the trick or still not as cheap as a cardboard template you've made yourself!
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