How to fold clothes with the marie kondo method step by step

Fold with the Konmari method

Photo: Marie Kondo

Fold with the Konmari method

One of Marie Kondo's infallible tricks to maintain order in the closet is to fold clothes into small packages that she recommends keeping vertically so that they are easier to locate and handle.

All the steps

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All the steps

Next we will show you one by one all the steps to fold clothes with the Marie Kondo method, but, as you can see in this diagram of all of them, it has no mystery.

Stretch the garment

The first thing you have to do to fold your clothes according to the Marie Kondo method is to stretch the garment completely on a flat surface.

Fold to the center

The next step in the KonMari method is to fold one of the sides to the center. It should be about a third.

Fold the opposite third

Now, repeat the operation from the previous step with the other side and fold the opposite third.

Fold the garment on itself

Once you have folded the two thirds, fold the garment on itself without being in half, there should be a little left.

To fold it back on itself

Now you have to fold the garment over on itself again.

Form a small package

And finally, you only need to fold the garment (or the piece of clothing in question) a third time to form a little package like the one you see.

The proof of success

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The proof of success

To check if you have done it well, you just need to put the packet vertically and see if it holds up by itself. If so, it is that you have folded them well.

Save them vertically and grouped by color

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Save them vertically and grouped by color

Now you just have to keep the resulting packets with the rounded part outwards and grouped by colors, which are two of the keys to the Marie Kondo method of storing clothes and keeping them close at hand without messing up the whole.

And the method brought to reality

If you want to know a real case, do not miss what Inés, our art director, did in her # Reto21DíasClara, which consisted of ordering all the clothes cabinets in her house with the KonMari method. Do you think he made it?

If you have not yet heard us talk about the Japanese Marie Kondo, protagonist of Order with Marie Kondo! and author of the world best seller The Magic of Order , don't miss her star method to keep order in the closet.

Fold in three folds and place vertically

In Spain we usually place folded clothes horizontally, one on top of the other. So to remove a garment from the bottom you must move the top ones, and you end up disorganizing the drawer or the shelf.

The KonMari method for folding clothes consists of folding the clothes in three folds (as you have seen in the step-by-step of the photo gallery), and placing the resulting packets vertically, one next to the other. In this way, the garments wrinkle less, you have them all in sight to be able to dispose of them easily without cluttering the set, and as you can see in this drawer, it fits twice as much!