Decluttering Drawers: Bedroom

[rachelmanija]

Learning how to fold things so they are in horizontal rows rather than vertical stacks is definitely the point where this tipped over into "hobby." However, it does make stuff WAY easier to find.

These are before-and-after aerial shots of my T-shirt drawer:

Comments

[sholio]

I'm glad that works for you!

My own experience is that I, too, have tried folding. It results in either a wad of clothes being stuffed into wherever the folded clothes go, to be folded later (read: never), or the clothes being left in the dryer forever.

My current system, which involves making a neat stack of flat clothing while sorting and then laying it sideways in the drawer, works great for me: it's fast, I can see everything at a glance (... ish, I do have to move them a bit to see what's in the back), and for whatever reason the extra 2 seconds saved per item, or whatever, of laying them neatly out flat instead of folding them makes the difference to my hindbrain in actually doing it vs. not doing it.

It's good to figure out what works best for you, though!

[green_knight]

Hurray for finding a system that works. (Turning the stack sideways never occurred to me, so I'm filing it away in case I might need a reminder of 'hey, there's yet another way of doing this'.)