So, get rid of half of your stuff?
Konmari is the method of Marie Kondo of “does it spark joy?” fame, so yeah.
Idk if this would work for me. For some reason all of my shit I don’t need does also spark joy. Fml
Doesn’t work at all for me, I’m “yeah, a grocery receipt from 7 years ago! I wonder what I bought?”
If you extra-want to know, here’s her six step method for organization:
https://konmari.com/about-the-konmari-method/
Yeah, that’s kind of the idea. I mean, who really needs that many towels?
How many people live there? Do they have pets? Do they often use ‘rag’ towels to dry things that are not their bodies? Not everyone can afford to ruin ‘good’ towels.
Yes, part of the method is to be pragmatic and logical about cleaning and organizing space. She even explicitly tells people to not throw away things that they use frequently but to give them a proper storage space according to their purpose. If it’s a rag, it’s not a towel anymore, let’s find it a home with all the other general purpose rags. Let’s keep the towel closet filled with actual towels that we can use. It’s all part of the de-cluttering method.
And actually, I’m detailing the picture and there are about as many things (I actually things they’re the exact same things) on the right picture than in the left picture. They didn’t seem to have thrown away that much stuff. Is just that order creates space, clutter steals space. It’s perceptual, but it’s very real.
From Katamari to Konmari
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.
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.
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.
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