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Taming closet chaos starts with immigration out the clutter, merely don't ignore what goes down in the laundry room. Folding your dress strategically can also free up serious storage infinite. Not just will your shelves await as well-baked and tidy as the piles in the department stores, but you'll meet everything you ain at glance. (No more earthworks for that favorite blackness t-shirt!) Afterward folding your shirts, pants, sweaters, or socks in neat, piddling bundles, attempt continuing them up or "filing" them vertically in drawers or storage boxes. That way y'all'll be able to speedily find whatever you need, and pull information technology out of the drawer without causing the entire pile to come up tumbling down.

If there's anyone who knows how to fold clothes, it's Marie Kondo, the organizing practiced backside the buzzed-nigh KonMari method. At commencement glance, her methods may seem a bit, well, complicated, just they'll rapidly become your get-to after some practice. The concluding result? Drawers and cupboard shelves that are just equally functional equally they are beautiful.

How to Fold T-Shirts

Instead of piling your tees on top of one some other and then rummaging through the stack, use this method to let shirts stand up upright. It fills the drawer more efficiently and lets you come across your unabridged collection at in one case.

Take ane side of the shirt and fold it in toward the center.
Fold the sleeve back away from the centre of the shirt.
If you're folding a long-sleeve tee, fold the sleeve again down toward the shirt's bottom hem. (The sleeve should course an upside-down L shape.)
Repeat on the other side of the shirt.
Fold the collar of the shirt all the mode dorsum to the bottom hem, so that the garment looks like a rectangle.
Carefully fold the shirt in half once again, and then that you tin store it upright in a drawer or storage container.

How to Fold Dress Shirts

In general, Marie recommends hanging dress shirts like this, but if you must fold it for a suitcase or drawer, take intendance not to trounce the collar.

Fold one side of the shirt towards the middle.
Flip the sleeves halfway back then fold again.
Echo on the other side.
Fold the shirt in one-half lengthwise, making a rectangle.

How to Fold Pants

Information technology might experience like overkill, but this super condensed manner of folding jeans allows you to shop 'em horizontally and pack more pants into each drawer.

Fold the pants in half, placing one leg on top of the other with the back pockets facing out.
Fold in half lengthwise, bringing the hem to just below the waist and forming a long rectangle
Fold the pants upwards once again, this fourth dimension into thirds.

How to Fold Sweaters

Storing your coziest knits on hangers stretches out the shoulders, just there's no denying they're full drawer hogs. Endeavour folding the sides in and so all your sweaters have the same width — they'll stack more easily that way.

Fold the artillery in beyond the sweater, parallel to the hem.
Fold each side part way in.
Fold in half lengthwise.

How to Fold Socks

Putting your socks perpendicular to each other may sound counterintuitive, but once yous meet how bang-up it turns out you lot'll meliorate understand why.

Lay each sock perpendicular to each other, forming a cantankerous.
Bring one toe across, tucking it nether the other sock.
Fold the summit of that same sock across.
Repeat with the other sock.
Constrict the two ends sticking out into the heart, forming a square.

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