Lisa Milbrand is a copy writer for Real Simple, with a passion for writing about food, travel, and hacks to make life easier. Loves fancy restaurants, good coffee and her family (of course); not a fan of waiting in lines.

Folding clothes was never really my forte—until I spent a few years working at the Gap, perfecting my T-shirt- and jean-folding skills. But hoodies and sweatshirts can be some of the toughest things to fold (besides the dreaded fitted sheet)—they're big and bulky, and they tend to end up a little lumpier than you'd like. Fortunately, there are a few strategies for getting a perfectly folded sweatshirt or hoodie that'll fit neatly into your overnight bag or drawer.

For every method, start with a hoodie or sweatshirt fully zipped up, on a flat surface, with the back of the sweatshirt facing up.

Marie Kondo has turned folding into an art form—and her method for creating neat bundles of clothes allows you to pop them in your drawer vertically.

This hoodie sweatshirt folding technique gives you a nicely squared off hoodie that'll fit beautifully on a shelf or in a drawer.

This innovative method is great for when you're taking your hoodie on the road—it helps the fold stay together, by tucking the hoodie into the hood itself.