<p>Okay…who has seen this video? This really is a nifty way to fold a t-shirt.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDo7PMdlrCA&mode=related&search=[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDo7PMdlrCA&mode=related&search=</a></p>
<p>That’s awesome! T shirt origami.</p>
<p>One of my son’s friends at Duke showed him how to do this before he came home for winter break last year, and he folded all of his shirts this way when he packed to go back!!! Apparently it was the latest thing in the dorms! Just didn’t realize it was youtube material! 
~berurah</p>
<p>I’ve tried it and I can’t do it. I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong.</p>
<p>Make sure you draw the imaginary vertical line on the side of the shirt AWAY from you. Pinch the middle and the bottom, draw the bottom up to the top and pinch, and draw the middle through.Then shake it out, the rest is obvious.</p>
<p>Well, geez, look at the NEXT video clip underneath the one you linked to. That one has the person constructing a tee shirt folding apparatus!</p>
<p>Might be worth watching if you plan to work at The Gap or Urban Outfitters. I know at Urban, they have a plexiglass board to use for tee shirt folding. Boring job, I must say, and frustrating after you do all that and people rifle through the neat piles right after!</p>
<p>Primetimemom - I had problems at first because of an edit in the video. But I figure it out. After you make the first fold, be sure to catch the bottom layer (near the hem), before you lift it.</p>
<p>berurah - This IS perfect for packing isn’t it? I fold all the undershirts this way and then in half again, and dh says it makes for easy packing. (He LIVES in a plane over a one ocean or another.)</p>
<p>primetime, think I have folding dyslexia or something, I can’t get it either.</p>
<p>1) I don’t get it.</p>
<p>2) I don’t get why I would need to get it. </p>
<p>Of all the problems I have run into in my life, finding a better way to fold t-shirts was never on the list. As far as packing, nothing beats those vacuum bags.</p>
<p>Can’t do it either. I fold T-shirts the old fashioned way, and they end up looking as in the video :).<br>
I have sent the link to S2 who is an origami buff. I have no great hopes that his T-shirts will be folded. In fact, I do not have great hopes that they will make it from the floor into drawers, folded or not.</p>
<p>In the case of D2, looking at her dorm room last weekend, I’d be happy if she made an attempt to fold her shirts in the first place! :D</p>
<p>I got it…but mine don’t come out neat and perfect like the video. But I will say…once you get the trick down, it’s really quick to whip through a load of t-shirts. My hubby is actually better at the folding trick than I am (he’s also the better cook…but hey, I’m the better pool boy…ha!)</p>
<p>Don’t think I have a prayer in getting my d interested in even having folded clothes in her drawers. Right now, just getting her to separate underwear from shirts from pjs and putting them into their own drawers is asking too much.</p>
<p>I practiced for about 30 minutes on different t-shirts and found it was easier to do on small, well worn t-shirts. Hubbies X-L new t=shirts were much harder for me to do. I still must be doing something wrong though as this technique takes me as long as a traditional folding.</p>
<p>I showed our housekeeper the video and she said that the person demonstrating probably works at a laundry facility and does this 1K times a day. She got a big kick out of it though and practiced with me. She managed the XL t-shirts much faster than I did. We had a lot of laughs doing this!</p>
<p>PrimetimeMom, can your housekeeper come show me how? And while she is here there is just a little bit of dusting…:)</p>