Name: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
ISBN: 9781607747307

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your house once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever. The KonMari Method, with its revolutionary category-by-category system, leads to lasting results. In fact, none of Kondo's clients have lapsed (and she still has a three-month wait list). With detailed guidance for determining which items in your house "spark joy" (and which don't), this international best-seller featuring Tokyo's newest lifestyle phenomenon will help you clear your clutter and enjoy the unique magic of a tidy home - and the calm, motivated mindset it can inspire.

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duckmysickJan 2025

I organize them by the color, either rainbow-style or from darker to brighter.

> it wouldn’t be organised properly, I would struggle to find anything.

Libraries solve this with the Dewey Decimal Classification. Most people don't have enough books for it make sense though.

For me, I don't have that many paper books and the ones I own I know by the side and the color. I keep the books that I reference often in a separate place. I noticed I don't need to find all of the books, all of the time. So organize most of your books to look pretty.

You can also group similar books together on a single shelf and then order them by color. For example I have a dozen of cookbooks and those go on a separate shelf, arranged in a rainbow. I also have a book series that goes neatly together, so I keep them it grouped too.

I also organize my clothes like that too. By general category first (t-shirts, pants, socks, jackets), and then by color.

I used to be extremely messy too (piles of clothes and documents, cardboard boxes, you know the deal). I turned it around after I read the Marie Kondo book "The life-changing Magic of Tidying up". Then after I got the mess under control I look at the pictures for inspiration how to make it aesthetically pleasing. I got a lot of ideas from Pinterest (I know, I know), but you can do an image search or check the organization subreddits too.

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doolsAug 2024

> 2.) instances where we don’t have time to take the item to it’s assigned place (e.g., because it’s in another room).

One of the most important things I took away from the life changing magic of tidying up is that, unless you live in Scrooge mcducks mansion, the chances that you genuinely don’t have enough time to put something back where it belongs are very remote.

EDIT: I actually wrote down my thoughts about this https://www.benkophone.com/2018/12/20/theres-nothing-magical...

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wsinksApr 2024

Marie Kondo (Konmari) had a bestseller in the NYTimes called "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" in... 2010. Wow, I can't believe her book came out that long ago! Lots of useful fun ways to do things in there, which aren't as obvious to non-Japanese people because many of them stem from Japanese cultural values.

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arnejenssenAug 2023

"The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" by Marie Kondo

It made me change the relationship to my belongings.

Also practical tips on how to organize the stuff that actually works.

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emodendroketDec 2021

Looking back at the books I read, I read a lot I'm pretty lukewarm on. But a few that stuck out:

* Chronicles of My Life by Donald Keene. If you ever read much Japanese literature in translation (at least before a particular era) you'll recognize the name, and Keene's life was fascinating. Breezy, fun read.

* The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. I was skeptical, and had unfavorable views of this book based on impressions I'd formed by reading reviews, but once I read it and gave it a try... she was totally right about nearly everything she wrote and it literally was "life-changing." I got rid of a ton of detritus and ultimately going through the process of purging my things gave me the boldness to accept a job offer on the other side of the country and take off. The process also drastically changed my shopping habits -- I simply buy much less than I used to, not out of a conscious desire to be "minimalist," but out of recognition that I don't necessarily really want things all that much (though thinking about how much trouble it was to throw things away doesn't hurt).

* California: A History by Kevin Starr. About all you could ask for from a one-volume history... nice little primer to my new home state.

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mleonhardAug 2021

I followed the techniques in Marie Kondo's book "The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up" and shredded most of my documents. It was satisfying and I haven't missed any of them.

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