You've been folding your shirts and socks wrong your entire life: Watch the Kondo Method

Business Insider ^ | 06/04/2015

[SeekAndFind]

It turns out that you are probably folding your t-shirts and socks all wrong. Marie Kondo, an organization celebrity in Japan, shows us the folding methods that earned her a spot on TIME's 2015 "Top 100 Influential People" list.

You can learn more about her tidying methods from her book, "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing."

CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR A BRIEF VIDEO OF HOW TO FOLD YOUR SHIRTS AND SOCKS THE KONDO WAY....

[IYAS9YAS]

Frankly, once I beat my socks against the bedpost every morning they’re ready to go again, day after day...after day...

Yeah, but how many times have you had to replace the bedpost?

[bobby.223]

Fold? What’s this ‘fold’ jazz?

[CrazyIvan]

I just throw my T shirts in on of three piles: Motorcycle, Firearm, or Scuba.

[strider44]

Guess you were never in the Army.

[caww]

Here’s a standing variation of that that works really great....no table required so steps are saved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6n3lq3PhAU

[ken5050]

Thanks for saving me having to look it up..

BTW: as for socks, and what to do with them..well, this one of the funniest bits ever

[rfreedom4u]

I never fold my shirts or socks. Socks go into a drawer and all shirts go on hangers. Pants get hung up too. Only thing I have in drawers are socks, underwear and shorts.

[rfreedom4u]

As a former US Marine I have folded/rolled MANY socks and shirts. IG inspections were pure torture.

[pacific_waters]

So wha’s new about that? I’ve been folding t-shirts like that for over almost 50 years.

[Organic Panic]

Yeah... I have been doing it wrong... I don’t have a wife doing it for me.....

[KC Burke]

My wife has a technique for folding fitted sheets that would astound a Jedi Master.

[InterceptPoint]

Fold socks? Do you iron them too? What kind of psycho talk is this?
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Indeed.

To get us back on track, I’m going to share my Secret Method for Managing My Sock Inventory (SMMMSI).

Step 1: Buy about 2 dozen pair of gym socks.
Step 2: Buy 1 dozen plain brown socks.
Step 3: Buy 1 dozen plain black socks.
Step 4: Buy 3 or 4 pair of fancy Special Occasion socks.
Step 5: Throw them all in a drawer.
Step 6: Wear them once and throw them in the dirty clothes.
Step 8: Wash the dirty socks and return to the sock drawer.
Step 9: When socks develop holes from walking around all the time in stocking feet they must be discarded.
Step 10: Periodically buy replacements for discarded socks.

WARNING: Anyone who folds their socks will be in violation of my Standard Socks Agreement.

[Steve Van Doorn]

My wife folds them the same way but first she steams them :)

NOT mine though just hers. (sometimes my jeans)

[Daffynition]

Remember......this is from the county who brought us origami.

[TexasTransplant]

Is that you Wilt?

TT

[Bulwyf]

Ping to show wife later. Heh.

[JimRed]

I don’t think I’ve ever in my entire life folded a sock or t-shirt.

Day two in the US Navy boot camp at Great Lakes consisted of mostly uniform issue, stenciling them with name and service number and learning to fold and store them properly. Old habits die hard.

[Mr. Blond]

I don’t even take my clothes out of the hamper, how’s that for efficiency?

[Gay State Conservative]

I'll bet it was a real b*tch when the Inspecting Officer found your footlocker unlocked! ;-)

[Tailback]

Y’all are missing the point. She then stores them vertically in the drawer. That way, you can immediately find the shirt you are looking for, instead of having stacks of flatly stored shirts you have to dig through.

I too was in the military and won the Commandant’s Award at the 1st Armored Division NCO academy in Nurnberg. I know rolling socks and undies. That’s fine when you have 2 types of sock, 1 type of drawers, and 2 types of undershirts. When I retire, I just might go back to that.