How rude for asking someone to be clean. No. I think it is more rude to ask someone to live in conditions grosser than they prefer because you're (not you specifically) too lazy/don't care enough to be a little bit better.

My BFF is the same. We're planning on living together as old ladies.

It's not about folding the shirts, specifically, but the attitude that surrounds that activity and many others — which you seem to realize here. You seem like an awesome, evolved, normal adult. Sadly, not all people (I'm going with people because it isn't just men, you are right about that) are the same. But keep on…

I'm so sorry for busting out laughing at this. It was like reading my life. You are not alone, my friend.

But allowing this kind of drivel to go on unchallenged is part of the problem — and Jezebel calling this shit out is part of the solution.

She wrote a post calling women who post selfies sluts. She then compounded the problem by dotting her post with pictures of her sons in various states of undress. This woman is a hypocrite of the highest order and deserves the scorn the internet is delivering to her. It isn't as if she is losing her job or being…

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I remember having a Dust Buster back in the early 80s. We loved that thing. Then one day it died and was never replaced. And I never really thought about it again until today. But thinking on it, I can see why someone would want a Dust Buster and now I'm thinking that I need one!

This is my method as well. Sleeves in, fold it in half, stack it perfectly neat!

Well, that has only just recently become an option! :)

Do you actually have a dust buster? Do they still make those things?? :)

I find this hilarious because the comments have made me out to be anally over-clean and yet when it comes to socks, we just chuck all the clean socks in a giant basket because I just can't be bothered to sit around pairing up fucking socks.

OMG, there is nothing that gives me a feeling of satisfaction more than seeing a giant mountain of laundry all neatly folded and stacked in front of me. I'll be over after work.

Of course, this thread is giving me a real "teachable" moment about how anally overclean I apparently am.

Well, first of all, shirts should be folded uniformly so they stack neatly in the closet/drawer. Secondly, if you fold them correctly, they have fewer wrinkles/lines in them when you unfold them. Thirdly, he asked to learn how to fold them like I do, so I keep trying to teach him.

And while what you've described is "presentable" it certainly isn't "clean". Not by any definition, which you yourself admit. I'm not judging or saying it is bad (because honestly, most days I'm barely "presentable") just saying that "clean" is "clean" and anything less isn't "clean".

From your comment on the laundry, I'm guessing that we have different ideas of clean! But I mean, if you live with someone and/or love someone, you would think that you could come to a compromise. Like, if you know that it drives me absolutely bananas to see your socks all over the floor, would you pick them up for me…

And yes, you are 100% correct. It is one of those "pick your battles" things. If he folds the laundry, I consider it a win. That said, when we first got together and folded laundry together, he asked how to do it and for the life of him could not figure it out, which is why I keep trying to teach him to do it. It's…

This. Totally this. My husband's mother sent him out into the world without a shred of an idea of how to take care of himself. He once called me across the country with a question on a box of mac and cheese (not kidding). Now we're getting divorced and I find myself doing little things like teaching him about the…

And how many freakin' times have you tried to teach him? I mean, I've been over it and over it and over it until I'm blue in the face and yet somehow the concept of folding your sleeves in first seems to be too daunting for an adult male to face.