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The dangers of decluttering

CanberraOmega
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im concerned my wife is joining a cult, and forcing me to get rid of my watches!

She is reading a book called "The Life Changing Magic of Tidying" a couple of screen grabs are below.
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So, apparently, tidying will "reset your life".


She also has a perfect way of folding socks
 
JimInOz
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I can't see what's wrong.

I'd have to see how she does shirts though.

If it's not all dress long sleeve on shoulder hangers, casual long sleeve (by colour) then knit polos (also on shoulder hangers), all with hooks front to back and right dressed at equal distance (two fingers wide).

Then trousers on clip hangers, same method.

T shirts in drawers, folded to A4 size and put in three stacks by colour, white, grey and blue.

And socks, but they would take too long to explain.
 
Stewart H
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As long as she doesn't consider that you're cluttering up her life Daniel....

Just saying 😗
 
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JimInOz JimInOz
T shirts in drawers, folded to A4 size and put in three stacks by colour, white, grey and blue.

And socks, but they would take too long to explain.

I am not the most orderly or organised of persons *ahem* but I still manage to baffle my GF with my t-shirt/shirt folding technique. One of the lasting effects of a military carreer where the first year or so was spent in dread of the daily inspection of the living quarters 👍
 
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ConElPueblo ConElPueblo
I am not the most orderly or organised of persons *ahem* but I still manage to baffle my GF with my t-shirt/shirt folding technique. One of the lasting effects of a military carreer where the first year or so was spent in dread of the daily inspection of the living quarters 👍

I think that's where it came from.
One shirt too close to the next one and the whole locker went on to the deck and you had to wash and iron everything before the next nightly inspection. And still fit in musters, parades, training, study and meals in that 24 hours.
 
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I think that's where it came from.
One shirt too close to the next one and the whole locker went on to the deck and you had to wash and iron everything before the next nightly inspection. And still fit in musters, parades, training, study and meals in that 24 hours.

At my second field excercise as a conscript, the plt commander of another plt had brought along both metal lockers of one of his recruits, who hadn't managed to keep them tidy for a week in a row. The poor sod then had to keep it tidy while we were in the field, standing to attention every morning at 5AM when it got inspected - next to his foxhole. It was in April and the temperature was -5 celcius. How we laughed 😁
 
Maganator
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I actually read that book. It's not bad but can be summed up in a sentence "throw out/sell your old stuff that you don't use and keep the stuff you do use tidy."
 
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I actually read that book. It's not bad but can be summed up in a sentence "throw out/sell your old stuff that you don't use and keep the stuff you do use tidy."

SPOILER ALERT!! 😲😲
 
STANDY
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As I sit here in my one chair with a lamp next to it, your all good @CanberraOmega until you see this book on the coffee table you used to have.....

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ConElPueblo ConElPueblo
I am not the most orderly or organised of persons *ahem* but I still manage to baffle my GF with my t-shirt/shirt folding technique. One of the lasting effects of a military carreer where the first year or so was spent in dread of the daily inspection of the living quarters 👍
No military experience for me, but I've always had a natural desire to have my clothes folded consistently and crisply. My mom jokes that I was her only child (1 of 4 boys) who would 're-fold' his laundry when she gave it to us already folded haphazardly. I also thoroughly scrubbed the tub prior to every bath, and I'm sure there are some other quirks I've forgotten. I dot consider myself OCD but there might be some minor hang-ups that border on it.


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No military experience for me, but I've always had a natural desire to have my clothes folded consistently and crisply. My mom jokes that I was her only child (1 of 4 boys) who would 're-fold' his laundry when she gave it to us already folded haphazardly. I also thoroughly scrubbed the tub prior to every bath, and I'm sure there are some other quirks I've forgotten. I dot consider myself OCD but there might be some minor hang-ups that border on it.

Who you kidding bro? Every one of us are on this forum because we have OCD...
 
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CanberraOmega CanberraOmega
This is great

All I learned is that the Japanese do not have a word for "camisole"
 
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Maganator Maganator
I actually read that book. It's not bad but can be summed up in a sentence "throw out/sell your old stuff that you don't use and keep the stuff you do use tidy."

Are you the guy who writes cliff notes?
 
kov
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I read the book and liked it. Did some exercise and filtered a lot of things accumulated since years. In fact I don't need all the sh*t I threw away or sold. Didn't miss anything so far 😎

But, hey, @CanberraOmega you decide whether you need something or not and, please, remind your wife that one of the rules of M. Kondo is not to force own partner to declutter 😗 in her book, she means the partner will notice a change and will naturally proceed sooner or later. 😉
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