How To Perfectly Fold A T-Shirt Every Time: Decluttering Queen Reveals Her Simple Two-Step Guide For A Flawless Fold

She is known for her ability to declutter and tidy the most disorganised and untidiest of homes.

And now, Japanese cleaning guru Marie Kondo, who is the mastermind behind the so-called 'magic tidying' method, has revealed the best way to fold a t-shirt in an amazingly simple two-step video.

The video, 'How to fold t-shirts?' sees the bestselling author and professional cleaning consultant talks through the steps with viewers, folding her own shirt along with them. 

'The main point in folding t-shirts is when you are folding them, imagine you are going to finish with a rectangle,' Ms Kondo said in the video, labelling her technique as the The KonMari method. 

The first step saw Ms Kondo hold the sleeve of the shirt to the side and make a rectangle shape.

Then, to perfect the fold, she kept folding it into a smaller rectangle shape which resulted in a 'simple and crisp folded t-shirt.' 

But there is one mistake people need to avoid to make sure that they too master the fold. 

'People sometimes make the mistake of holding the t-shirt on the wrong side exposing the t-shirt's front collar,' Ms Kondo concluded. 

Ms Kondo, who has sold over 4.8 million copies of her book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, revealed in an interview with The Times Saturday Magazine, that her compulsion stemmed from a failure to be able to tidy up and she wanted to rectify it.

'As far as anything else went - cleaning, washing, sewing - I could do it. The only thing I couldn't do was tidying up,' she said.

'At school, while other kids were playing dodge ball or skipping. I’d slip away to arrange the bookshelves in our classroom, or check the contents of the mop cupboard … I had begun to see my things and even my house as an adversary that I had to beat.'

The 30-year-old has transformed her compulsion and skill for cleaning into an empire, with quirky pieces of advice like treating objects as if they have a soul, earning her praise worldwide. 

Her latest book, Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide To The Japanese Art Of Tidying works on the simple principle that if something in our room doesn't 'spark joy' then it should be thrown away