Don’t know what to do with your empty cardboard pasta packets? Marie Kondo, the Japanese consultant specializing in storage, found a particularly ingenious use for them. Explanations.
Between Vinted, Depop, Vestiaire Collective and Marketplace, LPe-to-peer clothing sales platforms have been growing at high speed in recent years. Finding a new owner for your clothes has never been easier. Taking a photo, describing the product, putting it online… Everything is done in just a few clicks. But one of the marketing stages tends to discourage fashionistas: packaging the package. Who has never wandered around their apartment without success, looking for a suitable box to store a newly sold item before dropping it off at the post office? Marie Kondo, the Japanese consultant specializing in storage, has revealed her miracle solution. Rather than turning around her home to get her hands on the perfect container, the organizing star found the Holy Grail in her kitchen cupboards. And for good reason: it is in a box of Barilla pasta that the personality sends the clothes she no longer wants. T-shirt in a packet of fusilli, leggings in a packet of spaghetti, socks in a carton of Penne… Each outfit has its own type of pasta. As a bonus, the queen of organization offers guided tutorials on the Instagram account of the Italian specialist pasta.
An easy and original tip, which should please the 80 million annual users of the Vinted application. This trick also makes it possible to slightly reduce the impact of clothing consumption on the environment. As a reminder, more than 3 billions trees are cut down each year to produce 241 million tonnes shipping boxes.
Marie Kondo, queen of folding
What made Marie Kondo famous? His advice for sorting out your wardrobe and his tips for optimizing storage. Its secret: a very particular folding method, copied by fashionistas around the world to obtain a small square Store vertically in drawers. Clever!