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You've been folding your shirts and socks wrong your entire life: Watch the Kondo Method
Business Insider ^ | 06/04/2015

Posted on 06/04/2015 11:30:04 AM PDT by 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....


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KEYWORDS: folding; foldingsocks; foldingteeshirts; kondomethod; socks
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To: cuban leaf
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?

21 posted on 06/04/2015 12:11:58 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Fold? What’s this ‘fold’ jazz?


22 posted on 06/04/2015 12:15:55 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: SeekAndFind

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


23 posted on 06/04/2015 12:16:13 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: Fresh Wind

Guess you were never in the Army.


24 posted on 06/04/2015 12:19:22 PM PDT by strider44
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To: Excellence

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


25 posted on 06/04/2015 12:22:52 PM PDT by caww
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To: Excellence
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

26 posted on 06/04/2015 12:24:02 PM PDT by ken5050 (If Hillary is elected president, what role will Huma Abedin have in the White House? Scary, eh?)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


27 posted on 06/04/2015 12:25:31 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (Chris Stevens won't be running for president.)
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To: Fresh Wind

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


28 posted on 06/04/2015 12:26:13 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (Chris Stevens won't be running for president.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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


29 posted on 06/04/2015 12:27:35 PM PDT by pacific_waters
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To: SeekAndFind

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


30 posted on 06/04/2015 12:40:42 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: SeekAndFind

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


31 posted on 06/04/2015 12:50:02 PM PDT by KC Burke (Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam)
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To: Ray76

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.


32 posted on 06/04/2015 12:50:08 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: SeekAndFind
My wife folds them the same way but first she steams them :)

NOT mine though just hers. (sometimes my jeans)

33 posted on 06/04/2015 12:52:33 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: SeekAndFind
Remember......this is from the county who brought us origami.


34 posted on 06/04/2015 12:53:22 PM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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To: cuban leaf

Is that you Wilt?

TT


35 posted on 06/04/2015 1:07:30 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ping to show wife later. Heh.


36 posted on 06/04/2015 1:15:06 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Fresh Wind
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.

37 posted on 06/04/2015 1:22:04 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: SeekAndFind

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


38 posted on 06/04/2015 1:32:22 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: rfreedom4u
I'll bet it was a real b*tch when the Inspecting Officer found your footlocker unlocked! ;-)
39 posted on 06/04/2015 1:37:45 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obama;America's Ambulance Chaser-In-Chief)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


40 posted on 06/04/2015 2:01:18 PM PDT by Tailback
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