Unfuck Your Habitat

I’ve had a few people ask how to vertically fold their T-shirts so that more fit in the drawer and you don’t have to pull out a whole stack to find one shirt. I’ve put together a truly crappy picture tutorial to try to demonstrate. (Please keep in mind that photography is not my strong suit. Obviously.)

First, lay the T-shirt with the printed side down:

Then, fold one side in toward the middle:

Repeat on the other side:

Fold the bottom third of the shirt up, usually to right below where the arms are:

Fold the bottom up again:

This is what it looks like when flipped over (from the front):

Now, the trick is, instead of putting a stack of them in the drawer so that you only see the top shirt in a stack, put them in the drawer almost like a bookcase or filing cabinet, so the the folded “spines” of the shirts are visible when you open the drawer.

And this is what a stack of them in a drawer (or an Ikea storage box) looks like: