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Are you a folder?

Janet

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A funny conversation last night before my yoga class got me laughing -- and also wondering how unusual it is to actually fold all of one's clothing before putting it away!

We were joking around about kon-mari-ing our stuff, and one of my classmates mentioned that she didn't love Marie Kondo's book, but she was a convert to some of the folding and storage methods. She talked about rolling her leggings to store in a bin in her closet and how transformative it was for her. My yoga instructor and a few other people in the class were like, "Wha? I just stuff them in the drawer and call it a day!" The thought of that gives me anxiety -- I'm a little OCD and definitely a folder! I like my storage being neat and organized, even if no one can see it but me. If it gets a little out of order, I feel compelled to reorganize it.

I figure the numbers of people who bother to fold their clothes would be skewed on a fashion forum, but do you fold... everything? I fold even socks and underwear. Or are you Team "stuff it in the drawer"? Just a lighthearted question!

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Helena

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Oh, I'm definitely a folder (or, for tanks and camis, a roller), but the boys of my family are stuffers!! It drives me nuts. DS doesn't even care what drawer he stuffs into ... jammies mixed with socks mixed with hoodies *eye twitches*

DD definitely has my genes though - she KonMari'd her room this summer for fun and is currently re-doing it all. #chipofftheoldblock

Diana

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I fold all of my clothes (except for the hanging stuff obviously). I’m not naturally a very organized person but years of living in tiny city apartments with too many clothes and not enough closet space taught me to fold most things so they take up less space. Now I have more space but the habit persists. Also, most of my storage is shelves (inside a closet or upright wardrobe) rather than drawers, and you kind of have to fold things so they won’t just fall off the shelves!

I fold my underwear and roll my socks together and put them in baskets on the shelves. (I know Marie Kondo and others say not to do the latter but it’s most convenient for me, and honestly I’ve never ever ruined a pair of socks by rolling it.)

Bijou

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Folder for most things but not socks which I put into little sock balls (one folded into the other) and then they are in their own special sock ball drawer. My underwear starts out all neat and folded and generally ends up in a mess and then the refolding process has to start again.

RobinF

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Definitely a folder! Although I am debating not folding underwear I had some in a basket that hadn't been folded yet and kind of liked just grabbing one each day.

Janet

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Haha, yeah, the folding of underwear seems to be a bit of a demarcation line! Even my husband, who is quite neat and was in the Navy (so folding is part of his training!), tends to throw socks and underwear into a drawer with no folding. LOL

nuancedream

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I'm a folder for most things. I organize my underwear drawer and everything looks great, but the household gnomes come and visit and leave everything in disarray. Sigh.

nemosmom

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I am definitely a folder. Socks are balled into pairs, but all jeans, sweaters, tees, loungewear, and activewear gets folded.

cjh

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I fold or roll everything in drawers, shelves and bins (my bulkier sweaters are in under-bed bins.) so that covers everything that isn’t on a hanger. Hanging items are T-shirts, pants and jeans, blouses, dresses and skirts, jackets and vests. I define folding to include turning socks together. I fold my husband’s jeans and shorts, underclothing, T-shirts, socks, sweatshirts and flannel sleep pants and he puts them away. No messy drawers here.

Janet

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I used to turn socks together but started folding them and storing them in the drawer, "filing" style, and I like how it works for me. I've tried to keep my husband's sock drawer like that too (I do all the laundry and put away all the clothes), but he roots around in it and messes it up, LOL.

Sisi

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I fold everything (even dust rags) but only after laundering and ironing it. After wearing something, I do not fold /hang/store it away, I leave it around the house. Very messy person here. I hope I am not giving you an anxiety attack with this information.

Anonymous

I Kondo'd myself, and now everything gets folded, including undies and bras. BK (before Kondo) my dresser drawers were quite a jumble, so all this folding was a learned habit for me, rather than an inherent one. The habit, amazingly, has stuck! It just feels good to open a drawer and see all those nice little folded items standing at attention.

Vildy

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While I do fold sweaters, I hate it and hate the results of folded clothing of any kind. I don't even like pants over a hanger bar. I hang up even jeans and utility type pants. Someday when I have enough hanger room I will be rebellious enough to hang up all my sweaters over those hangers you can click plastic shoulders onto. I don't even like the method of folding them once and then lapping over a hanger stuck in the armpit. I tried folding my underwear but it's not all the same, so I couldn't tell many pairs apart. But I rather like pawing through a drawer, even for socks.

I tried folding my silk scarves. And while I can roughly tell them apart - color palette - I can't retain a sense of them that way. They don't look appealing any more.

Diana

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Vildy, I have a couple of these for my lightweight scarves. I think they work pretty well and you can see them all when they’re hanging this way.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A.....8DbX4W5E1D

Runcarla

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Everything gets folded. Socks are folded/balled together in pairs. After doing the konmari folding of DH’s and DS#2’s drawers this summer, I can report that the drawers are still neat.

Janet

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I like those hanging thingies Diana posted, but I don't have enough hanging space in our closet as it is. My scarves are folded and stored in baskets.

Janet

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Vildy, I got one of these contraptions for folding tees, sweaters, and pants, and I have to say I kind of love it. Everything turns out very uniform and neat. It's actually pretty quick once you get used to it, too.

https://www.amazon.com/FlipFol.....rid=524AWI=

Yes, I am a nerd.

Vildy

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I haven't tried those exact scarf hangers but did just used to have them folded over flocked hangers and that was pretty good for ease of seeing them, taking off and on. But it annoyed me that they were hanging "sideways" on a rail and therefore had to keep pulling the hanger out to see what was going on on the other side.

My husband is a folding champ and manages to fold everything beautifully so it doesn't wrinkle - so much so that if I ever offer to help put his laundry away or even into a bag for bringing upstairs he soundly rejects that.

JAileen

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I fold tees and jeans, but stuff underwear. When I married I was surprised to find my husband folds his underwear. So now when I do laundry, I fold his underwear, and stuff mine. I’ve KonMari’d several drawers - sleeveless tops, short sleeve tops, shorts and crops. He noticed me doing this and he started doing it too!

NancyW

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Folded: camis, jeans, socks
Stacked: undies, sweaters
Rolled: yoga/gym clothes.
On hangers: as much as possible, including bras (hung in groups over the hook)

After 40 years of living in small spaces I now have room for TWO slim baskets in the closet: whites in one, all colors in the second. There might be room for one more basket in order to sort light/dark colors but I am afraid my husband’s brain would explode.

I love the order it brings but I also appreciate that it makes everything easier to find and things aren’t crumpled. Of all the ‘home work’, laundry is, to me, the most satisfying.

Joyce B

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All my underwear and socks get folded as small as possible, otherwise they would not fit in their space. Other types of clothes may get folded or may hang depending on whether they are worn in the current season. I also learned to fold more efficiently from Marie Kondo.
Some scarves hangers come with a textured rubber lining to prevent the items from sliding.

Tina

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Folder all the way! I fold and store a certain way as well. My husband boasts that he can dress in the dark because he knows how the clothes/undies unfold. I do not function well at all if things are in disarray.

Suz

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Oh my. How to get my juices going in the morning.

I hang -- pants, skirts, dresses, shirts/ blouses, jackets, coats, and a very limited number of long duster cardigans.

I fold -- sweaters, denim, PJs and loungewear.

I roll -- gear, tees.

I ball -- socks into little balls.

I despair -- underwear. It starts out folded, but the storage receptacle I currently have for it means it inevitably gets all messed up and in the end I have to accept it. (We are living with other people's furniture now; my own makes folding easier.)

taylor

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Yep, I fold everything , or hang everything . Nothing is shoved in drawers or laying around.

Like you, I have a HUGE denim collection, and storing them on multiple shelves the Marie Kondo way has really solved that problem for me.

Jenn

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Oh my goodness, yes. Even the socks and underwear. My son and husband hate when I fold their things, so if I do their wash, I just give it back to them in a stack. I don’t dare look in their drawers. I don’t want to know.

Joy

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For my own clothes, I am a hanger, even for items that probably should be folded. My goal is to be able to hang everything in the closet space I have. Even most of my bags are hung from pegs and jewelry in those pocketed hanging bags.

slim cat

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Definitely folder. I don't roll socks and things do get messed up a bit eventually. I have some storage bins and one plastic case with zipper from a cotton blanket that I use to store hiking gear. I share the closet space with my daughter ( she is hanging everything ).

Anonymous

Depends how busy I am! I fold if I have more time/patience, otherwise toss em in and close the drawer! Only underwear, sleepwear, and gear are in drawers for the most part though- and out of season stuff, which is folded nicely

rachylou

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I’m a folder. I was a shop girl. However, I gave up folding underpants this year, lol.

Cardiff girl

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oh ,l am definitely a stuffer!Comes in handy at Christmas.

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