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."
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Yeah, but how many times have you had to replace the bedpost?
Fold? What’s this ‘fold’ jazz?
I just throw my T shirts in on of three piles: Motorcycle, Firearm, or Scuba.
Guess you were never in the Army.
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
BTW: as for socks, and what to do with them..well, this one of the funniest bits ever
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.
As a former US Marine I have folded/rolled MANY socks and shirts. IG inspections were pure torture.
So wha’s new about that? I’ve been folding t-shirts like that for over almost 50 years.
Yeah... I have been doing it wrong... I don’t have a wife doing it for me.....
My wife has a technique for folding fitted sheets that would astound a Jedi Master.
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.
NOT mine though just hers. (sometimes my jeans)
Is that you Wilt?
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Ping to show wife later. Heh.
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.
I don’t even take my clothes out of the hamper, how’s that for efficiency?
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.
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