Custom T Shirt Folder

How many of us had no time to fold our T shirts/ trousers to perfection without the aid of an iron + ironing board. One can spend load of cash and buy a ready made T shirt folder which is made of plastic, which eventually breaks. How about building yourself a rock solid T shirt folder which lasts years and years. 

Fear not, follow the step by step instructions below to build your own T shirt folder.   

Items Needed - 

• Thick single piece of cardboard [ left over from packaging ]
• Duct Tape
• Scissors
• Ruler

• Cut out a single thick piece of cardboard [ left over from packaging or purchase at bookstore ] to 57 cm x 38 cm. Thicker the cardboard the better  
• Using a ruler and pen. transfer above diagram onto the 57 cm x 38 cm single piece of thick cardboard
• Section A/ Section B  folds over on the Blue/ Green/ Yellow middle colored section
• Duct tape all colored lines on both sides for durability
• Carefully cut ONLY the two vertical Green lines which end on Purple horizontal line. So that Section D folds upwards into Section C
• How T shirt folder works is you put a T shirt face down on this device, the arms may protrude outside Section A / Section B. If T shirt protrudes beyond Section D, just fold it once to fit in Section D. Then just fold either Section A to the right and Section B to the left and then fold Section D upwards to Section C. Voila ! a folded T shirt/ trouser
• Works even on long sleeve shirts, what you do there is  manually vertically fold the long sleeve on Section A / Section B and then fold it the usual way, left over right/ right over left / bottom upwards

• Finished T shirt folder should resemble above figure. Middle horizontal section is in clear tape coz I ran out of duct tape while building 
• Final folded T shirt size is determined by Section C
• This T shirt folder was made out of Filing cardboard with expected life span of 1 month but to my surprise it has lasted me little over 3 years

Step by step - 

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