Look, I don’t give a crap about Kath Younger. I seriously find her boring and not even worth commentary about 99% of the time. But since I received 17 emails demanding I post about this video, here it is: “How To Not Fold Laundry”. I’m not sure why this video has everyone’s panties in such a wad, honestly. I mean, I don’t fold my underwear or sleep stuff either, so I guess you should run me off the internet now.
What I do think is worthy of commentary is the fact that for someone who supposedly works out so much, girl sure is huffing and puffing just putting away laundry. Christ, I have to haul my laundry cart 1/4 mile away, wash it, fold it, walk it home and then drag it up 4 flights of stairs and I don’t sound like a bull staring at a red sheet at the end. Does she have a cold or something?
Anyway, here it is, so knock yourselves out in the comments.
“and I don’t sound like a bull staring at a red sheet at the end. ” pp, you’re funny. :)
It never occurred to me that I should put clean clothes away. I’ve been throwing them out with the trash.
Thank you Kath for saving me SO MUCH MONEY!
that’s what I’m confused about – we learning sorting like with like and then throwing it somewhere else when we’re toddlers. Is there really a necessity for an instructional video?
I had to watch it a couple times to get the process down. You pick up clothes, walk to closet, put them in drawer. See, I had been walking to the closet without picking up any clothes first. No wonder I can’t see my bed or floor! Problem solved!
This is much like Jessica Quirk’s video on how to tie a scarf.
That video looks intelligent compared to this.
I like how she says, “Please don’t look at my underwear” when she is filming and putting them on the internet. Dumb.
Why does she have so much red underwear?
Now please picture her in just a red thong with those patterned socks.
YOU’RE WELCOME ERRYBODY!
@New Year New You YOU. JERK. I cannot stop thinking about it.
um ps I love that you changed your handle! :)
Thanks for the suggestion!
I refuse to believe this is real. There is no way someone as anal as she is doesn’t fold every single piece of their laundry. She’s fuckin’ with y’all.
Pretty sure the second she turned the camera off, she pulled everything back out and folded it all, underwear included.
She’s in my reader, and as soon as I saw this I was like, yep, that’s gonna get GOMI all fired up.
I fell asleep midway through the video, but my thoughts as I watched it was that she doesn’t actually seem to have clothes that need folding. Yeah, sometimes I skip folding the running crops that are just getting shoved back in my athletic bag, but those of us that have jobs that mandate some sort of dress clothes might need to a tetch more anal about folding.
I got emails telling me to “take her down” for this video. Really, people? Hey, here it is, feel free to go mental over it, but I seriously don’t get the bfd.
“take her down”
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Omg, I love this gif!
I thought this video made her seem almost normal. No smug looks, no I’m better than you feel to it. I also don’t see the uproar over not folding. I personally DO fold, but I wouldn’t judge anyone if they didn’t fold underwear! It’s not like it’s regular shirts and stuff.
Just to clarify, while I don’t think she seems too bad in this video…. Why the FUCK did she make this pointless video in the first place? I’m confused…
Yeah seriously. It is a waste of Internet space.
Because clearly she thinks she’s a genius who has a brilliant method of taking care of laundry! She must share the glory with the world!
The idea of making a video teaching someone how to put unfolded clothes in a dresser is kind of deranged. What next for KERF? “Eating Chips from the Bag”? “Can You Wear These Jeans Another Day? A Seminar in Sniffing”?
That outfit is doing her no favors, especially the cardigan.
i almost feel bad for her. i haven’t been following her blog, but maybe she made this to seem more ‘relatable’ and ‘helpful’ after all the backlash she received about her blog being so dry. but she is so clueless! does she think this is helpful?
Sweet Jeebus how self absorbed do you have to be to think putting away your laundry merits a YouTube how-to.
I want my four minutes back.
I want my pink shirt back….. I WANT MY PINK SHIRT BACK!!!!
You go, Glenn Coco.
And none for Gretchen Wieners
U rang?
When will the C&D letter come in?
This is such a fucking pointless video, even more so than much of the crap she spews out (both in writing & in other videos).
I’m assuming since she didn’t disable embed (she will disable embed in 3..2..) she doesn’t have a problem with the video being embedded on websites. Rather than craft some moronic OMG U VIOLATING MY RIGHTCOPIES emails she should figure out how to use YouTube.
ANNNNNNNNND embedding is disabled. I await my ‘thanks for tip’ email from KERF.
Lo and behold, 20 minutes later, embedding disabled.
I wonder if she is aware that disabling embed means it also won’t work on her site? Oh well, I’m sure she will just upload it with a different url and replace the one on her site with THAT code so it will work, right?
Yes. Because internet magic.
Aaaaaaand embedding is back.
And begin countdown before she demands I remove a public youtube video from my post.
A letter from the KERFeter LOLyer.
I have to agree with HeyYouGuys… It makes her seem a bit more normal… On one hand I have no idea why anyone would post a video about how they put their laundry away… I mean, really?? But on the other hand, it’s either her way of showing people she isn’t so anal, or yes, she is fucking with us. I actually have a very similar method of putting laundry away… I have specific spots for stuff, never fold work out clothes or pajamas and so on. When bloggers post videos, no matter what the content is, it brings them to ‘life’… And clearly a lot more attention.
I mean, if it takes posting a video about laundry posting to make someone seem more normal, then how abnormal are they to begin with? Think about it.
This would be totally normal if I were her friend, sitting on her bed reading a magazine and chatting with her as she gets a little housework done. It would be normal for her to narrate her process for no particular reason and I would tease her about how 80% of her clothes are for sleeping or working out, and the way she grabs winter socks in one hand and work out socks in the other. Haha I am looking at your underwear! It’s OK, we’re friends. Matt folds his underwear? Haha! Oh friend. Totally normal.
But posting this video online, in the honest belief that you are providing a service by BASICALLY identifying different kinds of clothes for people….no longer normal.
What are “people clothes” and how are they different than…clothes?
It probably means “clothes for when I have to look like a person.” I use the phrase “look like a person” to mean like…make-up, decent looking hair, reasonably professional. Not workout clothes or sleepwear.
I refer to that as “grownup clothes”
“Big girl pants.”
& how is it that ‘they won’t really get dirty this week’ ?
Is she going to wad them up in a drawer until NEXT week, the week they WILL get dirty?
I … just … oy. I mean, I’m sure she meant this as anything BUT a joke video, but socks are the one thing she took time with & the ONE THING she presumed to fold, that t-shirt? Biggo fail ~ I fold street maps better than that & we all know what a bitch those are.
Am I the only one whose clothes get dirty in the summer AND the winter???
Yeah, I don’t get the big deal either. I actually do the same thing. I only fold or hang things that really need it. Underwear and socks? Workout and sleep clothes? Tops whose primary purpose is going under other tops? Tops made out of non-wrinkly material? Hoodies? I don’t fold any of it. I just dump it in the appropriate drawer. I only fold T-shirts, and I hang up the stuff that actually has to look nice. Spending a bunch of time folding every item seems like a huge waste of time to me.
I think people are making a big deal out of it because she prides herself on her organization and perfect house, life, husband, etc… I think she did this to be funny, but failed miserably.
This. The only thing I find interesting about her method of putting away laundry is that she comes across as so anal in other aspects of her life, then she’s just all “throw it in a drawer” when it comes to her laundry.
But like others have said, she doesn’t really have a lot of clothes that would necessarily need to be folded neatly or hung.
It’s not that she doesn’t fold her underwear or sock or whatever else. It’s the fact that she felt the need to make a video.
I am sorry, but I don’t think she made it to be funny.
Who needs to see a video on How NOT to fold laundry? What the F does that even mean – should we NOT follow her example? If she is just putting clothes in her closet, WHY is that video-worthy. My God, what have people been doing prior to this video? Leaving their shit on the bed and using it as mattress elevation?
Yes, I don’t care if she’s not folding it as perfectly as some might expect. I just felt my intelligence as a *person who functions in the world* was insulted that she felt the need to post an instructional video on how to throw your laundry in a drawer. It just reeks of self-importance and being slightly out of touch.
I don’t have my (DON’T LOOK AT THEM!!!) panties in a wad about it, though.
She doesn’t wear “people clothes” in winter?
Not everyone is so lazy to live in workout gear, so fuck you from everyone who dresses like an adult in snow and storms.
And fold your shit, you 3,000 cal. oatmeal eating slob.
she wears people clothes (sometimes, i guess) but she says they don’t need washing because they don’t get dirty.
grossssss
…because it’s winter.
Most people wear “people clothes” because they have “real jobs” where they have to look “professional.” Not that KERF would really understand that..