You’ve been folding socks WRONG! Garment guru reveals expert method to make your footwear last longer

Folding your socks can be a simple, straightforward task for many, compared to the struggle of changing the sheets on a double bed yourself.

It should just be a simple case of combining the socks together into a ball and storing them in a drawer.

However, people have been shocked by an alternative ‘hack’ when it comes to folding their socks.

A video on TikTok from @sockshopuk shows how you can make your socks last longer by folding them differently.

The video shows a demonstration of the ‘hack’, where the user starts by placing one sock over the other to form a cross, before folding each half of the horizontal sock inwards and wrapping it around the vertically placed sock wraps.

Then they roll the vertical sock to the center and tuck it into the other sock.

The ‘hack’ then ends by rolling the sock into a compact square, leaving viewers with mixed reactions.

Commenting on the video, one TikTok user said, “I don’t have time for that.”

Another added: “good grief… I could have sorted 10 pairs in that time,” to which the video creator replied: “We’re racing you.”

Indeed, many users were skeptical about the amount of extra time it would take – compared to balling up socks before putting them away – even if it meant their socks would last longer.

While it seems like it would be better to fold socks into a square to save more space overall, people seemed put off by the method because it seemed unnecessarily complicated.

A third user joked: “Life is too short to spend hours folding socks.”

A fourth was convinced this was quite a ‘hack’, saying: ‘Rest assured I won’t be doing it this way’.