Not surprised it’s men washing colors together, not folding or putting away. Heathens)
Not surprised it’s men washing colors together, not folding or putting away. Heathens)
Add me to the heathens. When I wash an article for the first time, I check for colour fastness. I always wash in cold water and throw everything in together unless it creates lint like towels. I keep anything that collects lint apart. Soon even the lint is not an issue. I separate bulky items like fleece sheets from small items to ensure all get well cleaned.
As Cicero said, “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
Kondo is OCD for sure, but what she says is consistent enough with Japanese minimalism and Japanese (Shinto) spiritualism and other aspects of Japanese culture for me to believe she's totally for real.
As far as "a drawer is already a container..." If you really believe that, then you must dump all your cooking knives and silverware and other food-related stuff into a single kitchen cabinet drawer in a random unsorted pile instead of using some kind of divider to keep them organized. And who says the whole world is full of drawers? Most closets and storage rooms and laundry rooms that I'm familiar with have shelves, not drawers.
And I agree Kondo's position that everything in your house should "spark joy" is too extreme, but your "Joy is not in stuff" position is just a far wrong in the opposite direction. It's not just a few beautiful things that can spark joy. I have a small plastic pill bottle I filled with beach sand on a very special morning during a teenage vacation. It sparks joy every time I see it, and it is neither beautiful nor art. I also have some other things that likewise spark joy because of what they mean to me. Some are cute or beautiful or useful, and some are not, but they all spark joy. And I have other things that spark joy just because of how useful they are or how much easier having them makes doing some of the work that has to be done in my house.
I also use less detergent than the bottle says, but I do use the extra rinse cycle because I discovered that even using reduced detergent it doesn't all rinse out. Try this: load the washer with dirty clothes and don't put in any detergent. Stop the washer during the wash cycle and again near the end of the rinse cycle to see how much suds you have from just the detergent that was left in your clothes during previous washings.
I tend to bliss out in container stores, but my ultimate goal should be needing less of them.
The most interesting thing to me about Marie Kondo is that a lesbian relative of mine has a crush on her.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." Mahatma Gandhi
Be nice whenever possible. It's always possible. HH Dalai Lama
In a world where you can be anything - be kind. Unknown
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." Mahatma Gandhi
Be nice whenever possible. It's always possible. HH Dalai Lama
In a world where you can be anything - be kind. Unknown
But you DO have a silverware tray, which by ApatheticNoMore's logic is "redundant" because it's "a container within a container".
Some items are most efficiently stored and organized by keeping them in containers on shelves, or containers inside of cabinets, or even containers within containers. There is a sweet spot somewhere between too much containerization and not enough, and ApatheticNoMore's simplistic statement about containers in drawers totally misses that.
Besides, you know damn good and well I wasn't talking about the kitchen having only one huge drawer, so stop feigning naivety.
Correction Note: Gardnr was replying to my reply to something ApatheticNoMore wrote. In this post I accidentally attributed ApatheticNoMore's post to Gardnr. I've edited this post to correct that. Mea Culpa.
Last edited by GeorgeParker; 4-5-21 at 5:10pm. Reason: Corrected mis-attribution
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