House & Home
October 14, 2014
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Presents a guide to cleaning and organizing a living space, discussing best methods for de-cluttering and the impact that an organized home can have on mood and physical and mental health.
Despite constant efforts to de-clutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?
Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little 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 waiting 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.
My Review:
My older brother recommended this book to me in order to de-clutter my life. This book is life changing if you follow it to a T. I found this book to be very fascinating and worthwhile.
To begin, you have to touch each and every possession and ask yourself if it brings you joy. If it doesn’t, it needs to be discarded. You may feel stupid at first, but its worthwhile in the end.
Not only must you touch every piece of clothing while checking for your joy response, you must fold your clothes in very specific ways in order to find each piece’s sweet spot.
This will lead you to a moment when your mind and the piece of clothing connect. Then, don’t forget to thank your clothes for protecting your body! Thank your accessories for making you beautiful. Express your appreciation to every item that supported you during the day. SO INTERESTING RIGHT?
Never, never ball up your socks as they can’t get their much deserved rest that way. They need to breathe a sigh of relief.
You must visit your off-season clothing to let them know you care and look forward to wearing them when they’re next in season. This kind of communication helps your clothes stay vibrant and keeps your relationship with them alive longer. When I did this personally, you do feel stupid talking and thanking your clothing, but after it’s all said and done, you feel better.
You must empty your hand bag every day. Being packed all the time, even when not in use, must feel something like going to bed with a full stomach.When you get a new phone, it is kind to text your old one with a message of thanks for its service. Emptying the purse turned out to be very helpful each day.
Every single thing must be in its assigned place before you go to bed.Have you ever thought about what it would be like to have no fixed address? It is equally important for our possessions to have that assurance that there is a place for them to return to. I found this to be really helpful in my daily routine!
If we greet our house properly it will be happy to tell me what the family no longer needs and where to put the things remaining so that the family can be comfortable and happy in this space.
I highly recommend this book.It is definitely different in its approach but worth it in the end. With its help I have gotten rid of trash bags full of clothing, decor, papers, etc…
