The Life Changing Magic Of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art Of Decluttering And Organizing

Description

This #1"New York Times" best-selling guide to decluttering your home from Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes readers step-by-step through her revolutionary KonMari Method for simplifying, organizing, and storing. Despite constant efforts to declutter 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 bestseller 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."

Reviews

#1 "New York Times" Best Seller Amazon's Best Book of 2014 in Crafts, Home Garden "Ms. Kondo delivers her tidy manifesto like a kind of Zen nanny, both hortatory and animistic." -- "The New York Times" ." . . a literal how-to-heave-ho, and I recommend it for anyone who struggles with the material excess of living in a privileged society. (Thanks to Ms. Kondo, I kiss my old socks goodbye.) ... To show you how serious my respect for Ms. Kondo is: if I ever get a tattoo, it will say, Spark Joy!" -- Jamie Lee Curtis, "TIME ""This book is a cult. A totally reasonable, scary cult that works, doesn t kill people (a bonus), but does drastically change your life. In this case for the better." -- Buzzfeed "The most organized woman in the world." -- "PureWow ."" . . the Japanese expert s ode to decluttering is simple and easy to follow." -- Vogue.com." . . her voice . . . is by turns stern and enchanted, like a fairy godmother for socks." -- "The Wall Street Journal" "Reading it, you glimpse a glittering mental freedom from the unread/uncrafted/unworn, buyer s remorse, the nervous eyeing of real estate listings. Life s overwhelm, conquered."" -- The Atlantic""All hail the new decluttering queen Marie Kondo, whose mess-busting bestseller has prompted a craze for tidying in homes across the world . . . one proper clear out is all you need for the rest of your life." -- "Good Housekeeping "(UK) "How could this pocket-sized book, which has already sold over 2 million copies and sits firmly atop the "New York Times" Best Seller list, make such a big promise?Here's the short answer: Because it's legit. . . . Kondo's method really can change your life if you let it." -- TODAY.com "Kondo challenges you to ask yourself whether each object you have is achieving a purpose. Is it propelling you forward or holding you in the past?" -- "USA Today ."" . . a brief and bracing practical guide to tidying up your home." -- "Financial Times" "[It is] enough to salute Kondo for her recognition of something quietly profound: that mess is often about unhappiness, and that the right kind of tidying can be a kind of psychotherapy for the home as well as for the people in it . . .Its strength is its simplicity." --"The London Times""