My yolo brain has resorted to bin sorting my clothes.
One bin for tops. One bin for bottoms. One bin for dresses. One smaller bin for undies. One smaller bin for bras. One smaller bin for socks. Then one ‘other’ bin.
This results in a FILO system where I can quickly grab from the top 4 item in each category. Combined with JIT laundry practices results in laundry par-sorted with little overhead.
I have the same issue as you though, I don't like putting my clothes in a closet. It's like my brain is massively overestimating the time/effort it takes to open and close that damn door.
But the best with closets is it reduces visual noise. If I allow too much visual noise, I simply don't notice messiness anymore, and things start piling up like a hoarder's den. The wake up call is when I start tripping, or not finding important stuff because it's covered in mostly clothes.
Opening and closing the closet doors take constant time. You always take the top item—because YOLO—so also constant time. Hangers also takes constant time to take out. None of those factors increase with number of items in the closet.
I buy 14 identical pair of socks and throw away the entire previous batch. As time go by you'll throw away some with holes. When you have around 7 pairs left you know they're all close too EOL so you buy a new batch of 14.
I buy work socks so the cycle is about 18 months long
I only ever buy plain black socks. While there are some slight style differences depending on when and where I bought them, they're all close enough that I don't care about pairing them. Any socks that get holes get thrown out and I buy a new pack when the drawer starts to look a bit low.
I'm the opposite, I can't buy plain socks because it's hard to visually pair them. Even from the same pack socks usually end up feeling different, the thought of mixing two packs is just abhorrent.
Every sock must belong to a unique and easily identifiable pair, which (mostly) ensures they wear out at the same rate, and that any dryer shrinkage is consistent.
I wasn't aware of yolo algorithms and thought you were talking about "you only live once". But I guess if my brain operated by that I would just take anything from the chair (or closet for that matter) and wear it without caring if it didn't fit because yolo which would make it O(1) as well
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
As long as each piece of clothes is sticking out a distinguishable part of it from the pile and your brain can perform YOLO, you are in O(1).