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Last week the Chief mentioned that a camera crew would be arriving to interview him for some news show. Usually they go into his study and that works fine — it's book-lined and oak-desked and generally has the air of respectability in there — enough for head shots with blurry backgrounds, anyway.
But this day he felt that his office was not up to snuff. And believe me when I tell you, that means it was not up to snuff. (I remediated somewhat yesterday.)
So naturally, realizing that a news reporter and a man with an advanced apparatus of moving photography would likely be in the living room, I…
… applied Konmari principles to our dressers and the kitchen island, going through all our things and carefully rolling them vs. stacking?
Yes, yes I did. Two areas of my home that were definitely not going to be featured or broadcast anywhere at all became the intense focus of my laser concentration.
Suddenly, all that really mattered was this video I had seen somewhere (and now I don't remember which one, but the shirts were definitely rolled) of how Marie Kondo recommends that you roll rather than lay flat.
I haven't read the book, although I plan to. But the video stuck in my brain. So I pulled out this:
Let me ‘splain it to you.
I have in the kitchen island (including but not limited to) the following:
• Nice kitchen towels
• Okay kitchen towels but really excellent for covering rising bread, as they are the right size and tightly woven, which prevents sticking to the dough (I suddenly realized — the camera crew was about an hour away — that I wanted these particular towels not to be in the towel stack, but elsewhere — they really just aren't that great for drying your hands, certainly not as good as the others, but I'm not the only person grabbing a towel here)
• Not as nice kitchen towels (I also have those in the pantry — they get demoted and are for sloppy messes)
• Dishcloths
• Real rags (not to be confused with sloppy towels or old dishcloths, because if you use those as rags, they will inevitably get cycled back into the good towels/dishcloth piles, and then a guest will suddenly be washing dishes and drying hands with something embarrassing — instead I favor flannel pjs, shirts, and sheets torn up into rag-sized pieces)
• Cloth napkins
Usually all of this gets folded and stacked, as no doubt you have seen in previous long-winded posts about virtually nothing.
The stacks have been separate and approximate.
But here we go:
Yes, even the rags, why not, we are going full-crazy-Japanese-tidiness-guru, and the crew is still 45 minutes away:
Here are my secret dough towels. I ended up putting them on the other side of the island (which opens on both sides) so that only I will grab them —
–sparing my family from having to memorize my towel preferences:
(And true Auntie Leila fellow-travelers will remember that one of those was rescued from a mildew-y death — and now you know why I couldn't, no I just couldn't, throw it away.)
But I failed to roll up the napkins. I… I like them stacked:
I don't have pictures of my dresser drawers. Maybe next time (oh yay!).
Here are my thoughts so far: It's one thing to take everything out and roll up and put away what you want to keep. It's another to do the laundry this way — that is, to take a basket of clothes, sort and roll, and then transfer to drawers.
Rolled things… roll.
They roll while you are rolling them, while you are stacking/sorting them (I do this on the sofa or on my bed usually) in the basket, and while you are putting them away. Thus, the work motions are greatly, greatly increased, or am I just a klutz.
I am having trouble thinking that children will not get frustrated with this method, although I could see 8-12 year-old girls getting obsessed as well. Personally, yesterday when I was folding/rolling two loads of laundry I was getting frustrated. Things kept unrolling.
What do you think?
Because in the drawers and on the shelves, this is very nice.
I did manage to make the living room quite presentable.
Aaaaannnndddd…. the interview took place outside on the deck.
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Ellen says
Yeah, rolling is not all it’s cracked up to be. I roll our bath towels because they are visibly stacked under our bathroom sink. They always unroll! Oh life in a fallen world!
Laura says
Rolling? Why haven’t I thought of that!
Love your punch line… That it was done outside! 😉
All your rag photos look so pretty and homey.
b says
I think you are supposed to roll all the clothes when packing for travel as well. I have way more trouble that way though – I can never get everything to fit and stay.
Annie says
Same thing happens to me. I’ve done all my T-shirts and non-hanging clothes, but I put them in boxes on the shelves. It helps minimize the rolling. I love that they ended up on the deck after all!
Lisa says
Hi, Auntie. I read the book. I went crazy clearing out junk. The concept of throwing out what doesn’t bring joy was the same as love it, use it, or lose it, but for some reason the word joy really motivated me. I don’t even remember any rolling (must have been obsessed with the tossing). I know that the method explains a folding technique which is basically, fold and fold and fold until the shirt/item can’t be folded again (or until it’s the size you like), and line the items up on their “sides”. If you open a drawer, you look down and see the little strips of fabric, like spines of books on a shelf, and you don’t have to shuffle through. I love it, but once you have pulled a few out, the rest fall and get all limp unless you support them, say, with an old space-filling shoe box. My house now? Back to it’s old ways, of course. Kept the book to re-inspire me when I need it, which appears to be now. God bless.
Melissa D says
That’s what I did. Fold it up smaller than usual and set it on its “legs” so you just have a spine sticking up. I put the shirts and things in smaller boxes inside the drawer so they don’t fall over — I used shoeboxes and other similar, stiff-sized boxes small enough to fit. My kids love this b/c they can grab their clothes more easily. It hasn’t been a problem for us at all, and I now have an empty dresser drawer since I ditched all the non-joy-inspiring clothes. 🙂
Katie says
Yes, the stand-them-up-on-their-ends method has really worked around here, for my husband’s drawers. I suppose I “invented” it for myself without the benefit of a book, but I’ve been doing it for a couple of years now for his t-shirts and undershirts/-shorts, and we haven’t looked back. He easily finds what he needs, I like the tidy drawers, everyone wins!
Emily D. says
Exactly–the folding! I love the folding. Man, it makes it so much easier to grab things, especially in crazy places like the sock/underwear drawer! I did roll my tights and stockings, though, because apparently those are meant to be rolled, which makes sense, and they do hold that shape well.
Theresa (Haus Frau) says
I read the book and got most of the way through the ultimate clean out plan when things got crazy and then I loaned the book out (it’s still out). It is very helpful if you come from a family with a history of hoarders (which may or may not be me)! I felt less guilty holding on to things and I do actually fold my laundry as it suggests in the book. My little girls try to do it when they “help”, but the boys are no respecter of folded clothes at this time. 😉
Tacy Williams Beck says
All of my fave bloggers are writing about this– time to read this bestseller! 😉
Barbara says
I can’t get on the Konmari wagon for the same reason — unrolling. That and it seems like t-shirts would just be a wrinkled mess by the time they were unrolled.
Your distractedness with the towels sounds like me. We’re having a priest friend over to Sunday dinner and I haven’t cleaned a thing, even though having a priest over for dinner usually requires an entire house cleaning. At least he’s not blessing all the rooms!
Emily D. says
Well you don’t roll t-shirts; you fold them into the little packages. She talks about how it seems counterintuitive, but it’s really not. But she’s also coming at it from a Japanese perspective, where they don’t really “hang” clothes, apparently? Most of my clothes are in the closet. The only things that aren’t are my socks/underwear/workout clothes/sweaters. There are a few t-shirts in there that I’ve folded in her method, and so far, success. The only things you really “roll” that are clothes are things like stockings and tights. (at least that I remember–I just did my closet, but I”m onto the paper section now, so the details are getting fuzzy!)
Barbara says
I think it must be that we have larger furniture here, because if I stacked t-shirts sideways in my kids’ drawers, they would fall over — not enough t-shirts to make them stand up. I could probably fit all of the under clothes in one drawer, but they would rifle through them to find just the right one and all the work would be for naught.
Anne says
No, no, not rolled! I mean, you sort of roll them, but the point of the Konmari way of folding is that they will stand up on their own! So, no, they won’t roll away, I promise. It’s sort of somewhere between a roll and a fold. Sort of an oblong roll. I’ve rearranged my dressers this way, and it’s changing my life.
Ally | The Speckled Goat says
Yes! (You described it better than I did below.)
Ally | The Speckled Goat says
Ah, yes, the Konmari.
We moved this past week, and instead of, you know, packing, I decided to Konmari my drawers. Because denial.
One video I watched showed the Konmari thing less as rolling, and more like making little… triangles? Sort of? I’ve done the rolling in the past and hated the fact that everything unrolls, but with making it into a little teepee sort of thing like the video showed, my clothes stayed tight together and didn’t unroll. Propped up a little.
And it DID actually save a bunch of space. And less wrinkles. I don’t understand the physics, but it worked for me. Let me see if I can find the link…
Ally | The Speckled Goat says
Here we go. –> http://goop.com/the-illustrated-guide-to-the-kondo-mari-method/
Meredith says
It really does work this way. No rolling!
Betsy M says
So funny! Nice to know that I am not the only one who does crazy stuff when company is on the way.
So I read that book awhile ago and decided that that lady has issues that I do not have and vice versa. She is a single woman, no children, large income, loves to shop, and lives in a tiny apartment. I am all the opposite. I did glean a few bits of wisdom from the book but decided to hand it off to my sister who falls into the author’s life style.
Betsy M says
Say, has the Chief’s interview aired? If not when and where?
Alexandra foley says
Kondo is my god. Ok. No. God is my God. But truly she’s changed my life. The book is great. Apply your own Catholicism to the anthropomorphising (too early to spell) of goods and thank God for all things you get rid of. Then you’re done.
I’ve spent years being unable to not click something that used the word “declutter” but to little avail. I was still a hot mess. Now. NOW I rarely think of declutterimg. It’s lost it’s hold on me thanks to lovely Marie Kondo and her methode.
And I don’t feel so darn guilty all the time about my stuff. Just got rid of it.
Liberating myself from kitchen towels has been particularly rewarding. And now kids/spouses (I currently only have one) no longer have to learn my KCC (kitchen cloth code). Just use what’s there. And there aren’t too many and they don’t fall out when you open the cupboard.
I do not roll but I have an obsessed 9 year (male, oddly) child who has Kondoized his drawers and will never look back. I’ll post a photo. Maybe. Probably not.
Chere Mama says
Ha Ha! Out on the deck in the end…….ain’t that the way things go!! I think I might try this with my towels on the bathroom shelf. They might look so pretty all rolled like this. I vote for flat napkins! It seems to make them more “crisp” when you use them out of the drawer. ..I love a crisp napkin.
Stephanie says
I checked out the book from the library last summer and found it highly entertaining. I was only able to glean a few useful ideas once I stripped away her eastern spiritual notions. I felt like I needed to re-read Dubay’s “Happy Are You Poor” when I was done. (His examen, Chapter 16, was a sufficient reminder).
Teresa says
Had to reply here just because you mentioned Fr. Dubay — love.
🙂
christine says
I have tried the rolling of the kids’ clothes to make choosing a shirt easier. It didn’t work. Little kids change their minds about what to wear within seconds of choosing something. The first choice just gets shoved back into the drawer by the child who can’t or won’t roll it back up.
Katie says
I roll up the toddler pajama bottoms inside the toddler pajama tops– otherwise daddy and daughter would mix and (mis)match after every bath and I would go crazy at the zany combinations. Rolling = one set of complete pajamas when reaching in the drawer. And I roll our pajama pants to stack in a cubby in the closet. But come to think of it, that’s the only place we’ve successfully adopted rolling– just for pajamas.
Auntie Leila, I too have an elaborate storage, folding, and intended-purpose taxonomy for kitchen towels. Offhand I can think of at least five categories. Very possibly I was encouraged (enabled?) on this topic from reading your blog. =) But it makes sense to store them separately so as not to baffle and aggravate the other towel-users around here. Good idea!
Rebekka says
I fold kids’ pajamas in little packages too! And when they overnight away I fold whole outfits up that way.
Annie says
this is one of those things where you have to learn a whole new way. when I started with a whole basket full of my t-shirts, it was awkward. by the end of the basket, it was much easier. but yes, no rolling, each item should stand on its own without being supported on either side. if it doesn’t stand, it isn’t done correctly. it makes me happy to a.) get rid of the junk and b.) to have a drawer that is orderly and will stay that way very easily. I don’t do well with things that are stacked. I need to go teach this to my five year old. she loves folding. Thanks for the beautiful post!
Mary Eileen says
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
Why is it so hard for *people* (you know who – them) to understand the hierarchy of kitchen towels! It is a question of the natural order!
No you cannot use that one for tomato sauce spills ISNT IT OBVIOUS?
Elizabeth W says
I had actually never heard of Marie Kondo until you posted a link to a funny parody a couple months back. I Googled her and had a grand time watching her on YouTube (there is a video of a presentation she gave at the 92nd St Y, for instance). She has a certain natural hilarious otherworldliness. I also ended up listening to the whole audiobook of “Life-Changing Magic” on YouTube. I really liked it. She is a liiiiiittle crazy but I was touched by her insights into human nature and our relationship with our stuff. There are glimmers of a liturgical, sacramental view of the world there. There was even some correspondence with “The Little Oratory,” which I was not expecting! She recommends some kind of shrine or altar in the home (no matter what it is that you consider sacred–she seems to think everyone has something).
I heard that she is going to have a baby soon and I look forward to seeing if her method changes after she has kids!
Melanie says
ha! So funny…we have a complicated rag/towel system too, including “spill rags”, which are old disposable prefolds, because someone spills something here at least a couple of times a day. The only thing I use paper towels for is the grossest of the gross….like vomit, or cat hairballs. I dont’ even know why. i use cloth wipes for my diapered babies…but somehow vomit seems grosser? I don’t know….
Rebekka says
I used a towel to wipe up some nighttime vomit once, and washed it first thing in the morning – I ended up washing it five times and then throwing away because it still smelled like vomit if you used it on your face. (In retrospect I should have cut it up for rags, but that ship has sailed.) I’ve never had that happen with cloth wipes no matter how poopy, so carry on!
adi says
One of the very few things my mother actually taught me about housekeeping is that: Use COLD water to rinse out vomit asap, then soak or wash item(s) in COLD water (no detergent needed). After that wash item(s) with the next appropriate load of washing. It works all the time !
Kate says
I’ve been rolling things for years – before Ms. Kondo came on the scene. It seemed like the best way to squeeze cloth items into limited spaces. I first started doing it with my fabric stash since it was much easier to pull rolls out from the cubbies than stacks. Then I moved unto other items. I don’t fold my laundry in one place. I sort dried laundry into baskets or piles and dump them in the rooms where they belong to be rolled or folded. I dump mine and my husband’s laundry on our bed and roll (or hang) as I put them away. Hence I don’t have any klutzy unrolling problems. I don’t care what my kids do with their clothing as long as they put it away. I roll bath towels and slide them into the cabinet. It’s a little tricky to get tight rolls in the summer when I line dry everything and towels are as stiff as roof shingles. I don’t roll or fold kitchen cloths – I toss them into classified drawers(rags, decent towels, company worthy, and don’t forget the rags that are so bad you may tear them up for tree support or use for painting). Since their turnover time to the wash is so fast, I don’t see any reason to take the time to make them tidy.
Ha, ha! My husband was interviewed once by the local news crew and after cleaning the house, they did it on the porch. All you could see behind his head was the front door and a houseplant. And they only used a few minutes of footage in the broadcast. We’re probably thinking of the pretty view, whereas they are thinking of lighting.
Amelia says
I am a hacker for efficiency, I guess: I have two dollar store bins in the cabinet under my kitchen sink. Napkins in one (a slubby fabric that doesn’t wrinkle), towels in the other. True rags are under the powder room sink. Am I missing out on something by neither folding nor rolling?
Margo, Thrift at Home says
oh, you crack me up!!! I love using a visit to my house as an excuse to clean some random corner that has been kind of bothering me recently.
I think reading peoples’ opinions about Marie Kondo is more entertaining, probably, than the book itself. When I heard that she was single and childless, I did not go further. Family life is so different
Paula says
I haven’t read the book but I did watch a couple videos on how to fold stuff. And I couldn’t believe the difference it made!! There was so much more room in the drawers. And with my husband’s barn clothes, he can see the colour he wants (light on the hot days) without making a mess. Yeah, they fall over sometimes when it’s close to laundry day -but I just stand them back up when I put away the clean shirts.
I did have a good laugh at how to fold bras. That might work on a teeny tiny bra, but mine aren’t folding down like that 🙂
Jennie Cooper says
Well, they do look kind of pretty all rolled up, but it does seem like a lot of extra work. I keep mine in drawers, so it doesn’t really matter if they’re even folded at all, though, of course, they are. 🙂
Also, I like that you, too, clean random and irrelevant things at inopportune moments. Stress cleaning. It soothes many a ragged edge!
Becky g says
I read the book, and don’t remember the rolling so much, (except for socks) but definitely remember the book-spine folding method (another commenter or two mentioned it). This has made a huge difference in my life. Kids drawers (5 and 2) are tidy EVEN THOUGH THEY USe THeM, clothes take up drastically less space, I can see everything…the only problem is, as you mentioned, folding a massive basket of laundry this way. When you fold things up so tiny they don’t stack well for transport from the basket to the appropriate room. My solution has been to fold all the way to the last step, and do the last fold as I put things away. Sounds annoying, but isn’t that bad really, and the rewards of tidiness and extra space are worth the effort. Even my husband, who has no tolerance for thinking about such things as what exact folding method will allow his shirts to fit perfectly into his drawers when stood on end, has managed to keep his drawers in excellent shape.
Becky g says
Wow, posts about folding really bring out people’s passions. Look at all the comments! Haha, I love it!
Laurel says
80 percent funny today! I kind of thought the rolling idea was a bad one for just that reason. Thanks for verifying my assumptions. 😉
Isn’t it always the way of things that if you prepare one place, that’ll not be the right spot??
Kristi says
Auntie Leila, I read the book, too, and as others have mentioned, it’s more like fold-and-fold until they stand up. I have to say, this did work wonders for us because I started doing it many months ago on my three-year-old’s clothing drawers (he’s now four), and he was then able to see what clothes options he has available and completely picks out his own outfits every morning — super-bonus! Occasionally he does pull out too many things and one row goes a little awry, but it takes exactly two seconds to shove them back into place because they stand up on their own. 🙂 Also, for my own part, even though you weren’t talking about the de-cluttering, really, I did find her advice there to be really helpful, too. Her worldviews and attitudes towards “things” are little *unusual* at times to say the least, but after using her ideas to go through my own clothes, I seriously got rid of a giant mountain of bags of clothing, and my drawers/closet still had plenty left. And I am far from wealthy. It was pretty eye-opening to be donating so much unused, perfectly usable stuff when one thinks of how many people in this world are in desperate need …!
Megan says
Leila, I just noticed your island is butcher block. Do you like it? Is it durable? We are putting in an island and deciding between butcher block, granite, and quartz.
lisa says
That is the dumbest book ever.
Tori says
I tried rolling my husband’s socks “like sushi” and half of them fell apart on the way to the drawer.
Ren says
Hello, I am usually a passive reader of this blog, and quietly implement your ideas into my families routines. But today I feel a strong need to tell you how wonderful this folding technique really is. The videos that I have viewed on this have been to fold not roll anything. The folding and putting away of clothes in drawers changed me, after watching her video. I first did my drawers and miracle upon miracle my drawers are still tidy after 1 year! If you fold with her method and stand your clothes up it is so much easier to see what you have. Before I stacked clothes one on top of another and could never see what I was looking for. I would land up digging through and making a mess of my drawer. After noticing the changes, I have done the same to my husbands drawer, and my sons drawers. They also remain nice and tidy! No more clothes falling out from them doing the toss and turn to find a favorite item. My sister has also changed her families folding and lining up of clothes after she saw how easily and quickly my son found a favorite shirt in his drawers. I fold them so that he can see what the image is on the front. I think you need to find a different video for how to fold for this technique, because it really is a good idea. I Have used this technique for all my linen drawers, towel drawers and for my hand towels that are on a shelf for daily use. Best of luck on folding! Ren
Victoria says
I decided to harvest around 500 black walnuts this year. They are everywhere, and a friend was doing it and I decided to give it a shot myself. I just HAD to do it, and for some reason it just makes me feel like I’m doing something useful, though I might not be. I’ve been obsessed all week. Now it’s 1AM and I have probably 300 of them in my oven drying… I think my love affair with them is cooling off a little…but I don’t regret trying it out.
Victoria says
^The point is project obsessions crop up sometimes, and it’s good to know I’m not the only one because sometimes I wonder about myself…
Karen says
I actually like Marie Kondo’s book. Some of the ideas seem a little strange or might not work with kids, but it’s definitely a motivating read for getting rid of clutter. Specifically, I like the method or steps that she lays out for going through your stuff. I’m the type of personality that needs a clear set of directions for accomplishing a task or I will falter. The way I read it, she has you start with your own possessions (not other family members’) and follow this order: clothes, books, papers, miscellaneous, and sentimental items. She breaks down some of the categories even more, such as clothing: shirts, pants, outerwear, etc. Then she breaks it down even more: out-of-season clothing first, then seasonal. I put it to the test last week and decluttered all of my shirts. I now have two full bags of just shirts to donate. I couldn’t believe how easy it was to make decisions about my shirts. Obviously, I still have a lot more to go, but so far I give her method a thumbs-up!
Donna L. says
I haven’t read Ms. Kondo’s book yet….but when I visited a day spa years ago, I *loved* how the fluffy white towels looked, all rolled up and stacked. I stole that idea and use it for my kitchen and bath towels…but I always hang up shirts—less wrinkles….even t-shirts and polo shirts.
Perhaps I am simply “folding skill-impaired” because any time I fold things, and take them out of the drawer to WEAR–it appears I may have slept in my clothes! Not a good look!
I wonder if there is a “Cliff Notes” for the book in question? Thank you for the laughter about towel organization and hierarchy….I have “almost” trained my Darling Husband to NOT use the fluffy, white, new-ish towels to clean up the hardwood floor….almost…
Lindsey G says
Funny, I just finished folding my kitchen towels, then sat down to read the latest phfr post, and what do ya know! I have 2 drawers in the pantry – one for regular dish towels, and also hand towels (my husband can never tell the difference, but I like the hand towels to be of a different, thicker fabric, if you know what I mean), and the other for seriously demoted dish clothes (holes, paint, etc.) and true rags. I’ve trained the kids to know where the rags are, and when I ask them to clean up a spill on the floor, they know where to go. Hubby insists on using the current dishcloth for floor clean up, then throwing it back in the sink, without rinsing, and often without telling me!! AaaaaaaahhhhH!
So this is the book I’ve been hearing people talk about. I just put it on hold at the library – I’m only the 26th person waiting for one of the five copies! I find that most of our clutter these days is child-related, especially “art” and “project” and “intricate duplo/train/dollhouse scene.” I wonder how her principles can be implemented with children’s things as well – has anyone really tried to do this with their kids’ stuff?
Lindsey G says
Auntie Leila,
One other dish cloth related question – what do you think of microfibre cloths (e.g. Norwex)? Do you ever use them? Someone gave me window cleaning cloth & polisher cloth, and I must say, I love them for windows! (No cleaning liquid required!) I’m hesitant to use them elsewhere, partly because I’m scared of how to launder them, partly because of price, and also I don’t like the scratchy feel on my fingers!
Kari says
Lol! I use norwex and love it! I do hate the scratchy feeling on my hands, but lotion after works great and since I live in NM, lotion is important anyway. I especially like the hand towels..they dry things/hands so fast and because of the silver, you’re not sharing germs. As far as washing, I had a party, so I have enough for a full (small) load. Just wash in hot water with good (additive free) detergent and dry without fabric softener.
Anamaria says
Please read the book and tell us what you think! I’m all for de-cluttering but on a very small budget there are many things I/we use that I don’t love- like most of my maternity clothes! Today I am actually wearing an outfit I picked out, and, oh! It’s nice! But I can’t afford to go buy more, even used, so mostly I make due with what I’ve been given.
Then there’s the stuff we will most probably need in the future, like a double stroller we were given. I would love thoughts on how to balance frugality and organization and generosity to others. I’m slowly learning how to do this better, but it is hard!
Lindsey G says
Yes, I’d love your thoughts on this, Auntie Leila!
Lisa says
Believe it or not, I was just wondering if you had heard of this method and what you might think of it. I read the book about 2 months ago and as a working woman who did about one load of laundry a week, I was thrilled. Then my mom passed away and I moved into her house to care for my older mentally disabled brother and now I do about five loads of laundry per day and this method is not quite as thrilling. Once I get used to things and have more of a routine I may try it again. I have been reading your blog for quite some time and now that I have this new responsibility in the care of my mother’s house (which she kept cleaner than any house I’ve ever seen all of my life until her very last day) LMLD is helping me more than I can ever say. Some days even telling myself that it doesn’t have to be perfect has kept me from losing it. Thank you so much!
Lisa says
Oh I did mean to say that if you follow her method for rolling…well, it’s not exactly a roll. It makes a little tent and clothing will stand up by itself. It goes pretty quickly once you get the hang of it. I’m not sure if the towels are the same. My mom has a gazillion drawers and the dishtowels have always been in the same one so I’ll just leave them there. Thanks again!
Amanda says
I love how the imminent arrival of photographers in your *presumable* living room spurred you to hyper-organize the kitchen and bedroom! That is totally something I would do. Whenever a new baby is arriving soon I find myself doing completely un-baby-related nesting things like scrubbing out a closet or working on computer design projects until the wee hours of the morning. I have no idea why, but I almost never do the logical things like, oh, mop the floors I’ll be setting the baby quilt on for playtime or finding the baby bottles that we like to use for babysitters or cleaning the bathroom in case I end up delivering in the bathtub accidentally like certain other Catholic bloggers have had happen 😉 Nope, logic is overrated when it comes to housekeeping isn’t it?
We got on a KonMari kick the other day and it was rather fun. We started speculating on what other things we could fold the special KonMari way. Towels? Tortillas? The toddler who kept messing up our lovely piles of clothes? There is something nice about being able to see all my shirts at a glance in the drawer.
Helena says
hmmm, I’m pretty happy with my no-fold, shove-it-in method. Never fails.
Woman of the House says
I’ve switched to rolling clothes for packing to go on trips but not for home. Our clothes go on shelves in the closet, so I don’t think rolling is very practical in those circumstances. Your rolled towels looked pretty, though. 🙂
Erin says
I’ve switched to rolling clothes for packing to go on trips but not for home. Our clothes go on shelves in the closet, so I don’t think rolling is very practical in those circumstances. Your rolled towels looked pretty, though. 🙂