So much of the world is a messy, chaotic place. Every day, plans go wrong, things go awry, and plans that we thought were fool proof get completely blown up. It doesn’t matter how hard we try to make it so, life is anything but predictable. For those more Type A personalities among us, this can be something that is hard to deal with. 

This is where the coping mechanisms come into play. Perhaps, these kinds of people take up mindfulness, or they clear their head by going for a run. Other times they might focus on the things they can control — something like their weekly grocery shop. 

When it comes to this chore, many of us find ourselves haphazardly ticking off a list scrawled on an envelope and slinging goods into the cupboard we’re kind of sure we put them in last time. These domestic goddesses, though, live on another plane of existence. Their list is color coded and compartmentalized, and everything has its place before they even take everything home. Their unpacking process is akin to a religious ritual.

To show off this glowing achievement, they take to TikTok. They make mesmerizing videos of how they organize everything they buy in their perfectly proportioned kitchens, down to the very last flake of oregano. Up and down the country, super focused suburban housewives are creating organizational categories that have never even existed before for the sake of their own sanity, and that of an audience of millions. 

However, not everyone is in on the cult. This has been pointed out with amusing efficiency by @ohthatskreed, who took to task one of these #organizationtok influencers showing off how they repackage the entire contents of their kitchen.