(30 vs 27)

Hmmm...looks like a whole lot of whoring going on over in that other shitty thread.

I think it's pretty pissweak that people have to post crap when they really have shit to say.

Of course I can fold a fitted sheet.

Is this a trick question?

And I've never seen the link you posted. Sorry. Thought everyone could do it.

Some people are foldingly challenged.

Others of us simply choose to ignore their natural talents. ;)

Oh, and can you fold waterbed sheets?

That's another two-fer. A fitted sheet sewed to a flat sheet. Plus with the CalKing mattress, they're an handful. The only real trouble comes from standing at the foot of the bed, and flinging the sheet toward the head of the bed.

What trouble is that you ask? Apparently you forgot, as I did that the sheets an the ceiling fan make a bad combination. :yikes:

Several generations of women have tried to teach me to fold fitted sheets... but I still just kinda roll 'em up and toss them in the closet. :headshake

Dazza stuck his hand in the ceiling fan the other morning when he was getting dressed for work. lol I shouldn't have laughed, but it was pretty funny, and he didn't lose any fingers. lol

I've never owned a waterbed, so I didn't know there were different types of sheets for them.

yeah...that's the way to do it choco. ;) Why worry about a folding when you can scrunch them?

I reckon the sheets are all the same. But the point of sewing two together is that there's no other way to tuck in the topsheet. The mattress is just ttooooo heavy. Water weighs a lot.

Plus, there are other things on the mattress, like mattress covers. Those aren't strictly "fitted" as much as they're flats with straps that pass under the corners of the mattress.

That's true. Most people over here put a mattress cover on ordinary mattresses also. Do they do that over there?

I got so tired of alleged waterbed sheets elasticized all the way around forever popping up from around the waterbed mattress that I only go for the attached pockets at the corners that have sleeves for anchor sticks (short lengths of CPVC vinyl piping are lightest and smooth too) which makes a deep corner-holding pocket (more than a bit like a giant bra cup) that is firmly held in place by the weight of the mattress. This or a flat sheet held in place with elastic straps with garter snaps at either end. This works the same way unless the snap unsnaps.

I use those elastic straps on the all-around elasticized sheets as a cure for their problem. The makers seem not to have considered that some waterbedders have mattress covers between sheet and mattress to keep things from going clammy or underventilated. All-around sheets don't work well with these; they never anchor well underneath.

A permanently placed X or six-ended array of straps under the mattress to clip to the sheets' edges would work with any sheet type too.

Oh yeah, I fold fitted sheets with the "pocket tuck" method, too, but not so elaborate about truing the edges. Might try that sometime.

I can't say. I have extremely limited experience with anyone else's mattress but my own.

Which begs the question, how do you know that Ali?

I knew you'd post something very detailed and pedantic in this thread UG. I have to say, the quality of your post is so much higher here than in that other shitty thread.

Ummm...I've rumpled a few sheets in my time?

The wife and I can make our waterbed squeak.

Detailed, yes. Pedantic heck no -- on the grounds that sheets are utterly unpedantic, you naughty girl!