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From Katamari to Konmari
I hope you’re happy now that tune is stuck in my head for the rest of the weekend.
Every Konmari thing I do forevermore will start with me looking at chaos and remembering this comment.
I would have been happy if my last roommate had even gotten to the everything stuffed in a closet stage. Her method was “giant pile on the floor”. I got a laundry folding table and it turned into giant pile on the laundry folding table.
Wtf is that left image? Who is just cramming shit in a closet like that? Of course it works better if you put it away properly, doesn’t need some fancy term.
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It’s not just organizing. They got rid of a lot of stuff. The method they used to determine what stuff to get rid of has a name. Other methods could also be used.
What is wrong with cramming shit in a closet like that? Obviously one wastes some space. But it is a trade off. Cram the shit in and save time at cost of space or fold everything at cost of time wasting less space.
Like data compression. And compression level depends on use case respectively CPU vs storage / bandwidth / cost.
Btw. I am more on the left side (including my wife) and I don’t see any disadvantages given enough space. Usually, I choose for clothing the first T-shirt, pants, socks, etc. I get in my hands. If colors really are not working together (5% of the time) I swap against the second clothing I grab. If two socks don’t match: I couldn’t care less.
And I’d say I blend into society. I just care less than other people about clothes. I wear the stuff which my dad stopped wearing because they are 20 years old and ugly. And I am writing this long comment because I think more people should think like that.
You’ll be shocked. I have seen several people who fit exactly into that kind of “just throw it in that general direction” attitude to their personal space. Most people just don’t care that much, and would consider the closet on the left perfectly serviceable.
I mean, I’m not one to keep my closet looking like the right image, I don’t care THAT much. But I’d at least like to be able to see what’s in there, and grab things without the whole pile coming down on me, and I feel like this encompasses the overwhelming majority of people.
There’s a large number of people for whom this post is useful. There’s no need to target the majority.
Mine is worse. I don’t know it just always end like that
I want to know how much of that stuff stayed and how much went, though. There’s a missing pic! I NEED to know!
We threw away one large trash bag and donated one large trash bag. Three first aid kits and toilet paper was moved to the bathroom. They shop at Costco, so the many sets of some of those things were challenging. The better folding and baskets really went a long way!
Found this comment from the OP in the reddit thread
Oh wow thanks!! You’re the best!
Wow I didn’t know I needed this community in my life
Is Konmari a word in another language that just means “Folding things properly”? Because that’s all that’s happened here.
Good that somebody figured out how to do basic tidying, I’m not sure it needs a pretentious name to go along with it
Konmari is a tidying method made by Marie Kondo, who is a popular author of the book the life-changing magic of tidying up. I don’t know why you’re getting offended over a nicely organized room.
