There are several things you can’t have too many of:
- Blankets
- Candles
- Chocolate
- Cats
- Fuzzy Socks
- What would you add to the list?!
Sadly, mugs is not on that list, but that is a discussion for another day.
I love love LOVE fuzzy socks and people give them to me often and it makes me HAPPY!
But I realized last month that because of my fuzzy sock storage system (see above), I was wearing the same ones over and over. I’d wear them, wash them, and put them right back on top, and grab from the top, rather than digging around to see what was in there.
AND THERE WERE CUTE SOCKS IN THE BOTTOM THAT WERE NOT GETTING WORN!!!! I WAS NOT FIFOing!
Okay, okay, this is not exactly FIFO (first-in, first-out) as I learned it in the food industry (and as I practice with all our food) – where you use the oldest item first, and the newest item last. But there is probably some rotational inventory word that suits what I should have been doing from the get-go. Tell me if you know what it is.
So in December after I wore the socks and washed them I put them in a different spot so that I could go through my entire bin. It took 30 days, but it was fun! I found some that I hadn’t seen in a long while and also some that didn’t fit (huh – did my feet change?).
Unfortunately that system took up too much space, so now I need to come up with something else to do for all of my items that I store in bins like this – socks, underwear, bras, gaiters, headbands, etc. It looks cute when I open my closet, but I bet there are things at the bottom of all of those bins that I haven’t used in a while!
You need bigger bins so you can sort through better! Will has one of those plastic drawer things for his undies, socks, and white tees. Also, when I was typing “bins” it kept autocorrecting to boobs. 🤣
And I would add baskets to that list.
LOL I don’t need bigger boobs! I wonder if bigger bin would help me or not. I want something that rotates them in order of last worn for me. Ha.
Yes, baskets!
I would add comfy pants and ice cream to that list
Yes! And homemade cookies! How could I forget ice cream when that is part of the reason we got a standalone freezer? Ha.
You were LIFO-ing your socks! (I also learned FIFO when I worked in food service.) In programming/computer science, people talk about two data structures: a queue (FIFO) and a stack (LIFO).
For my socks, I started folding them neatly and putting them in a bin vertically, in a little row (like the KonMari way). That way, I just pull one pair out at a time and when the bin is empty, I know it’s time for laundry. (However, I do have a few pairs of thicker “house socks” that I wear around many times before washing.)
When I googled FIFO it came up with the computer science definition and it threw me off because I’ve only ever thought of it in the food industry. I was definitely LIFOing.
I am about to empty some scarf drawers – I should put my socks in like that! Thanks for the idea!
Out of 30+ pairs of socks that I own, I only have 1 pair of fuzzy socks that I got from Nordstrom last year (they do free curb side pickup and they were on sale for $10). I really like them and need to replace some of my aging socks that are no where near as comfortable.
Yes! Get ALL FUZZY socks! (Okay, not really, they are kind of weird to wear in shoes, ha)
Ha!! The fuzzy socks I will be getting are for the purpose of keeping my feet warmer in the colder months.
I realized this winter that I do not have enough fuzzy socks in my life. I have tried to remedy that but I know I can do better. 😉
My list would include books, of course. Hehe.
Yes! And there are so many with cute cat patterns!
Ahh yes 🙂 Many would agree with that addition!
Why is mugs not on the list? It should be LOL
I have four pairs of fuzzy socks, but agree, you can’t have too many!
Because you can have too many mugs and not enough room for them! Ha ha ha. We were in that situation in our old house and I got rid of a lot, and we are back to that situation in our new house. Steven is going to build a mug shelf for me someday so I can display them, but until then, we just have an overcrowded shelf of them. I think it’s just not on the list for me since I don’t have enough room! How do you store yours?
Oh, my goodness – it’s scary how much I identify with this post! I LOVE fuzzy socks but haven’t been wearing them as much – for what reason, I do not know. I need to remedy that, particularly since it’s midwinter!
And YES on the organization of clothes so that you do FIFO. I haven’t KonMarie’d everything, but I am doing it with some of my socks and it’s a gamechanger. Oh, and sweaters and sweatshirts. But I haven’t figured out how to do it for my shirts, or yoga pants / leggings (the only “pants” I wear these days…). For those, I lift the stack of clothes and put the new stuff on the bottom… but that does get annoying.
Yes yes yes! Do you have enough or did you need to get some?
I have a stack too, and I can see the stack but grab from the top. I need to find a way to make things more visible, but I don’t have a million drawers!