Kim So-young expressed satisfaction with having cleaned up her house through a cleaning company.
On the 22nd, Kim So-young's YouTube channel 'Kim So-young's Thingsree TV' said, 'An honest review of a cleaning company after 4 months! A video titled ‘We reveal everything from the cost to the site on the day of cleanup!’ was posted.
Kim So-young and Oh Sang-jin, a couple, moved to an apartment in Apgujeong in November last year. The rental price of the apartment in question is approximately 1.2 billion to 2 billion won. Kim So-young, who recently released an online housewarming video, said, "After moving, many people watched the housewarming video, and I said I included a lot, but it seemed like there were still questions, so I prepared a Q&A video."
Kim So-young said, “I contacted the organizing company directly,” and “I bought it with my own money. No discount.” Kim So-young said, "Those who have already moved can just use a organizing company, but it was difficult to find a organizing company while moving. If you use a moving center, the moving center already packs your belongings and puts them back in place, and the organizing company does not finish organizing them. The idea is to take it out, unpack it, and organize it. He advised me that there was no need to choose a moving company that organizes things too meticulously. The first estimate is to send photos and videos. The second estimate is to look at that and visit to see how many people are needed in total. “We negotiated the price with me. We received a second quote and set a date,” he said of the contact process.
Kim So-young said, "When I call a moving or organizing company, I have to tell them what I'm going to throw away," and "If I don't, it's seen as just organizing everything. I threw away a lot, so if I didn't tell them, it would have cost me more money." He continued, “The experts come and look around. They look at it to the point where it is embarrassing. They remove everything from every room, kitchen, and bathroom to the point where the floor is all covered up.” In addition, "I remove items that should not be in each location, put them in each location, and start organizing them. The highlight of this organization is not sorting and putting things in their right places, but 'throwing them away.' This is why the homeowner must do the cleaning together. “I call it. I check the things that need to be thrown away,” he explained.
Kim So-young complained, "There are a lot of things I throw away. Things that I have never used for 5 years, up to 10 years, or even 20 years begin to come out. Over the past 20 years, a lot of personal, useless things have come out, including Sangjin's things." did. When Oh Sang-jin said, “It was good to throw it away,” Kim So-young said, “When we were alone, I said, ‘Can I throw it away?’ “Didn’t I say I couldn’t do that?” Oh Sang-jin explained, "I took it out, classified it on a zero basis from the beginning, threw it away, and put a label on it, so I got a feel for it." When Kim So-young asked, "Have you finally figured out how many shoes you have?" Oh Sang-jin admitted, "I threw away a lot of shoes at that time." When Kim So-young said, "I thought it was a centipede's house," Oh Sang-jin got angry and said, "Are you just going to wear your clothes?", making everyone laugh.
Soyoung Kim revealed the process of making the estimate and the final cost of cleanup. Kim So-young said, "When moving, isn't there an estimate based on the square footage, number of rooms, and luggage? Usually, for about 60 pyeong, it costs 2 to 3 million won, depending on the luggage. The method of organizing and moving companies setting prices is similar. “It’s a form of calculating the number of people based on the amount of luggage. You can think of it as costing a little more than the moving cost,” he explained. He continued, "Clearing costs are largely divided into manpower costs and furniture costs. The owner looks at the number of rooms and the number of luggage and assigns a reasonable number of people. When I actually tried it, I found out that those people were really needed. When you first organize things, you might be a little skeptical. 'Why not?' 'Do you need so many people to tidy up this room? Can't one person do it one room at a time?' “You may be thinking like this. When you think about it, what the owner of the organizing company said is correct,” he said.
Kim So-young said, "In our house, excluding the study and children's room, the labor cost was for a total of 9 people, and that is almost the same as the moving cost. That's because 9 people moved in our house." In the case of Kim So-young, it is said that the cost of furniture was high. He said, "The labor cost for moving and organizing costs is similar. This is because it is determined by square footage and luggage. However, organizing costs are added to this, so various furniture to organize the house are included. Approximately 1.3 to 1.5 of the moving cost. “It takes about twice as much,” he said.
The appearance of the house on the day of the cleanup was also revealed. Kim So-young said, "I'm throwing away all the baby blankets. I don't have a second child. I'm throwing away all the newborn blankets with the intention of not having a second child." Then he said to Oh Sang-jin, “Dad, I will throw away all the newborn blankets.” Then Oh Sang-jin agreed, saying, “Uh, throw it all away.”
Kim So-young was satisfied with the perfectly arranged blanket, saying, “Don’t use the blanket.” Sangjin Oh also laughed and said, “Cover it with newspaper.”
In the organized house, Kim So-young made people laugh by suggesting, "Should we hit each other every time we buy something?" When Oh Sang-jin said, “I will go with extreme minimalism,” Kim So-young added, “This house is already extreme maximalism,” adding to the laughter.
It originally started at 9 a.m. and ended at 5 p.m., but Kim So-young's family had a lot of luggage, so it lasted a few more hours. Kim So-young said, "We added 3 hours because we couldn't finish cleaning up. Additional costs were incurred. The reason for this is different for each apartment. Our apartment has strict recycling standards, so waste must be completely recycled before it can be disposed of. “He helped me almost perfectly,” he explained.
Regarding the satisfaction level of using a organizing company, Kim So-young said, "It was so good. The best consumption in 2022. When I move in the future, I will definitely use a organizing company." He said, "You may think, 'I can just throw it away, right?', but 10 experts can finish this in one day. There is a reason why I thought this was an area I couldn't do and that experts were needed. There are some things I regret. It would be nice to save money, too." So, I organized it except for the study and the baby's room. The most disorganized parts of my house are the study and the baby's room. I thought I could do that on my own if I cleaned everything up, but it's been four months since I moved in and it's not organized properly. “It worked. I had to finish the entire house,” he said with regret.
Kim So-young said, “It’s been 4 months since I cleaned it up, but it hasn’t completely gone away.” Sangjin Oh agreed that “the system has been established.” Kim So-young also said, "I've developed a system. Even if it gets dirty, if I come to my senses, I go to the system and find it. I know where something is. If I don't know where something is, I feel like it's trash. Now I know where something is." “Even if it gets dirty, it can be put back in its original location. This is my first time living in such a clean house.”
Kim So-young said she also changed her habits to keep her house clean. Kim So-young said, "(Due to the nature of my job), when I come home, there is always something like a package or gift. There were many times when it was piled up for several days or unpacked and put on the table. But now, I tear up everything that comes home and use it right away or put it where I need it." I organize things in the refrigerator. Things I don't think I'll use, I give them as gifts to people around me. Even if I'm sometimes tired and can't organize things on time, I try not to let it go beyond that weekend. I also try to organize my closet as instructed by the organizing company. “I try,” he said. He continued, "I once met an acquaintance who lived in a clean house and asked him how he kept his house so clean. He just said one thing. 'I just have to use it and put it back in place, right?' “We are trying to do that,” he said. Oh Sang-jin said about his change, saying, “When something good comes in, I used to stock up on it, but I always use that first.”
Kim So-young burst into laughter, saying, “A million gargles modeled by Sang-jin arrived at my house.” He continued, "I distributed it to the staff around me. By doing so, it definitely has the effect of not making the house dirty and doing good things."
Kim So-young and Oh Sang-jin expressed their feelings about organizing their house and once again experienced their different personalities and tendencies. Oh Sang-jin said, "I asked a philosophical question about whether the first human being was born barefoot and could have so many things. I reflected on how much environmental destruction was caused by throwing things away. I said, let's not buy them. Let's keep throwing them away from now on. Let's not buy them."
When Kim So-young asked, "As the person in charge of shopping for my house, do you think the line has decreased?" Oh Sang-jin responded, "The line is not that bad. I don't buy anything these days. If I buy one, I try to throw away two. I realized that interior design is pretty only when there are no items. “It is also wise to throw away things neatly,” he said.
When Kim So-young said, "The day of organizing was difficult, wasn't it?" Oh Sang-jin said, "I had a harder time mentally," confusing Kim So-young. Kim So-young said, "I don't understand because I'm an ESTJ. All I could think about was how to get rid of this quickly." On the other hand, INTP Oh Sang-jin said, "I thought about whether I lived too much like a slave to capitalism and whether I was too greedy for material things," and "I thought about people's greed."
Kim So-young recalled that time, saying, “It’s really different. For some reason, he was acting like this while looking at the sky.” Oh Sang-jin said, “I think that human greed has no limits, so I will not live like that from now on. Let’s live in a well-organized house.”
Kim So-young and Oh Sang-jin, who married in 2017, have a daughter.
Kim Ji-won, Ten Asia reporter bella@tenasia.co.kr