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WELL I can finally breathe a sigh of relief with today's news from the US, and move on to having feelings about books again instead of just worrying about the election full time. Here's Marie Kondo's book!
I watched Kondo's tv show back in January and found it highly inspiring, and Kondo herself a delight. Finally got round to her famous book! It's also great. When I finished it I promptly got up and started tidying again.
I have never done Kondo's full method, where you pull out every single one of your possessions by category and go through them to decide what to keep, but I find her insights about whether something "sparks joy" to be a really useful metric for deciding what I actually need in my life. And thanking something for what it taught me/did for me before getting rid of it does seem to help me let go of things I don't want anymore but couldn't previously bring myself to get rid of. And the related idea that sometimes what an item has taught you is that you don't want items like that - so instead of hanging onto it out of guilt for never using it, you can let it go with gratitude for what you've learned.
She also has some useful tips about how to fold things, and how to arrange drawers and closets and so forth. She's right, my dresser drawers DO make me happier to look in when they're sorted by colour with lightest colours at the front and darkest at the back!
And her enthusiasm for tidying is infectious. She just cares so much!
I watched Kondo's tv show back in January and found it highly inspiring, and Kondo herself a delight. Finally got round to her famous book! It's also great. When I finished it I promptly got up and started tidying again.
I have never done Kondo's full method, where you pull out every single one of your possessions by category and go through them to decide what to keep, but I find her insights about whether something "sparks joy" to be a really useful metric for deciding what I actually need in my life. And thanking something for what it taught me/did for me before getting rid of it does seem to help me let go of things I don't want anymore but couldn't previously bring myself to get rid of. And the related idea that sometimes what an item has taught you is that you don't want items like that - so instead of hanging onto it out of guilt for never using it, you can let it go with gratitude for what you've learned.
She also has some useful tips about how to fold things, and how to arrange drawers and closets and so forth. She's right, my dresser drawers DO make me happier to look in when they're sorted by colour with lightest colours at the front and darkest at the back!
And her enthusiasm for tidying is infectious. She just cares so much!
