Sheet Trick

This is another extremely simple tip, but you know, if you solve a tiny problem that crops up week after week, that's one less recurring aggravation in this busy life.

Do you ever have trouble figuring out which way your fitted sheet goes on the bed? If it's striped like the one in the illustration, no problem. But with a solid color bottom sheet, I always seemed to try the wrong way first.

Solution: I have placed a safety pin in the corner of the sheet that goes to the top right-hand side of the bed. I do this on the bottom sheets for all our beds, and it stays on during the wash, so all I have to do is look for the safety pin. Now I always get the direction of the sheet right the first time.

Of course, for safety reasons you won't want to do this on beds used by little ones, but they probably have cribs or twin beds, which aren't so hard to make up.

Bonus tip: I normally don't have to fold sheets because I just wash them and put them right back on the bed.