[pablobaz]

IME lots of people just try stuff the duvet in and then shake it to get it in the right place.

[chatmasta]

Someone should write a book called Household Chores for Hackers: The algorithms your mother took for granted and forgot to teach you.

[helsinkiandrew]

"Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House" is quite good:

https://www.amazon.com/Home-Comforts-Science-Keeping-House/d...

[TheRealPomax]

Grab any 1950's "how to be a good housewife" book, use a bit of scripting to replace "housewife" with "housekeeper" and "husband" with "partner", and republish.

[etrautmann]

The book “Algorithms to live by” comes close

[hamburglar]

I taught my mother how to fold a fitted sheet. A girlfriend taught me and I was floored at how elegant it is. Prior to that, they just made me angry and ended up in the closet in a wad.

[brookst]

What does the page on folding fitted sheets say?

[Ldorigo]

I would buy it.

[boothby]

folds sheets in the dark

[spuz]

This is what I do. I take a corner of the inner and stuff it into the outer until I find the corner of the outer. Then I try to keep those two corners in place while I do the same with the other corner. Then I grab both corners from the outside and do a lot of vigourous shaking until everything lines up. It takes ages and doesn't always work. I think I will try starting inside out from now on.

[zelphirkalt]

IME neither inside out nor the method you describe work well and both are tedious. Inside out does not work well, because the cover doesn't obey gravity and refuses to fall down to cover the duvet completely. It is a secret power of bed sheet covers. That, or it has to do with other things like friction.

[vladvasiliu]

I do a modified version: I put all the corners in the right places, then a good shake by holding two adjacent corners straightens everything out. May not work so well for duvets much wider than your arm span.

[Jare]

I do that and while the shaking is unpredictable and often requires doing it from multiple sides, I find it a strong but strangely pleasant exercise for my shoulders.

[Semaphor]

That is fascinating. Just asked my wife, who's from another continent, she's as flabbergasted as me.

[pablobaz]

As a kid we didn't have duvets. It was all sheets and blankets. Duvets were a bit new-fangled so it's not surprising the knowledge wasn't passed down.