Master this shirt-folding technique

I work in Burtons (Mens store), i can tell the customers really do appreciate n take notice of folding shirts this way. Gives a good sence of feeling when they leave with a Smile.

So there I was, a 10-year-old boy, forced to go to the Profits in the mall with my mother. She’d purchased a dress shirt for me and had just rung it up. While she was talking to the male sales representative, I carefully watched the male clerk fold my shirt. He’d clearly done it a thousand times, and there was just something about him. When I got home, I carefully unfolded the shirt and then refolded it—careful to do it exactly the way I had seen. I couldn’t. It took a while, and I worked and worked. Finally I got it pretty much the same way I’d seen that notable clerk do it. Ever since then, for years, every time I folded a shirt, I would spend the extra time to try to get it just right. To get it to look the way dress shirts do when an employee refolds them in a store. It wasn’t that the clerk was particularly attractive; at 10 I hadn’t even known what “attractive” meant. But I did know that he had something I wanted. Some kind of confidence.
Years later, after coming out, I found myself packing to move down to Disney to work at MGM (now Disney’s Hollywood Studios). Life was really taking off, and I was proud of where I was. I’d put the computer in the car, and packed up all my audio tapes as I was the only person left in Tennessee who did not have an in-car CD player, knowing they were a fad and would soon be replaced by in-car MP3 players. Still in my room, I’d just taken a load of laundry upstairs and set it beside my suitcase. I first packed the socks, then held up a shirt and looked at it.
I stood there, going through the maneuver in my mind. Face down. Even it all out. Have to get it perfect. Arms folded across the back. Each side folded to meet in the middle. Fold into thirds from bottom to top. I thought about the clerk. I thought about how, in one way or another, I’d tried to be him for the last 13 years of my life. The stability. The humble refinement. His practiced professionalism. Then, still holding the shirt, my own life came into view. Mexico. China. College. Disney World.
I looked at the shirt. I looked at the laundry basket. Then I dumped the basket into my luggage, wadded it all up, and with a zip, I was off.

It takes some practice to get perfect placement of the grips otherwise it wasn’t to hard.

I’ve made 47 business trips so far this year as well as multiple personal trips. This technique is one key to quick packing for me.

yes this is worth doing. satisfying and good at parties. do not demonstrate it randomly though as it tends to cause people to fall in love with you.

i fold pretty fast now.

Watch the video in slo-mo, or pause it after each step.
Practice while you watch.

What I did was that after each step, I paused and do what the lady showed. Play the video, paused and repeat her actions.

It worked. But I keep forgetting when I’m not watching. So I drew it on a note, just a flatten shirt, X’s where my hands suppose to go, and which side of the shirt I am on.

Everytime I fold laundry, I’ll practice. At first I keep looking at the note, now I don’t need it anymore. I’ve “mastered” the technique ;)

lol this is reeli fun 2 figure out.. and gud 4 showing off! baha

and he loves the shirt trick. Martha Stewart had this on her show and even had t-shirts printed up that showed where to hold and pinch the shirt. I don’t use it for my clothes but it is a cool trick.

It’s actually fun! took me about 3 tries to get it.