Marie Kondo is a Japanese organizing consultant and a home tiding expert. Being passionate about organizing things from her childhood, Marie has developed her original method of cleaning and named it ‘KonMari’. She has also written four books on organizing. Her book ‘The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing’ was published in more than 30 countries and became a best seller in Japan and Europe.
The KonMari method is now known worldwide. However, it is not just a simple guide on cleaning and organizing. KonMari is based on the principles of the Shinto religion Marie professes. According to this method, only those things that “spark your joy” should be kept at one’s place.
Marie Kondo
There are two stages of cleaning by KonMari. First and foremost, you must get rid of excess that provokes chaos. Secondly, you have to organize the storage of your stuff. And only in this sequence – you cannot organize your things before you throw away the trash. Otherwise the chaos will just move from one room to another and back.
Step first:
To destroy the chaos once and for all you gather your stuff together. Clothes comes first, then books, documents and papers, souvenirs and everything else.
To disassemble the clothes, you collect it all together and than ‘speak’ with each thing from a heap. Holding the thing in hands you have to listen to your inside voice. If you feel that this thing brings you joy, you keep it. If the thing arouses unpleasant associations and bad memories, if it annoys you, you just throw it away regardless of how expensive or comfortable (this refers especially to your “home” rags) it is.
Marie is confident that your house should be filled only with things you love. To clear your conscience, thank the stuff you are going to evict from your place.
The same principal works with books. Gather all of the books from all the cabinets in one room. Taking every book into your hands, pat its cover, “wake it up”, let a book “talk” to you. Choose the books that make you happy and put it back on a shelf. Give a new life to the rest of books by finding them another owner.
Do the same trick with souvenirs and all the rest. Look through your documents and papers – usually people keep most of them unnecessarily.
Step two:
Now, when you got rid of trash, you have to arrange your stuff. All the things should find their place, because remaining homeless they will form new blockages.
But do not buy any new special organizers, vacuum bags or other storage facilities. Marie persuades people to use storage boxes and shelves they already have at home.
What about clothes? Marie is against all kinds of piles, ’cause they are unsustainable and make it hard to distinguish one particular thing when it’s needed. All clothes, except those which should be hanging on hangers, she folds into a neat squares and put them in rows.
Marie suggests picking everything up from the floor and removing items from the ledges of sinks and bathtubs.
Here is an interview with Marie Kondo. Perhaps, this video will inspire you to tidy up your home like a boss!
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