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I warned you, I’m not a minimalist and I can find plenty of good reasons to keep things! With that said, the book included many good points and I was inspired to immediately prune things from our home. could I repurpose it for something else?.might I or someone in my family use it someday?.does it still have a purpose / function?.This is much different than the criteria I’ve used in the past. She has one very clear criteria – “Does it spark joy?” Her recommendation is that the things we keep we should enjoy, they are things that should make us happy, and thus, the only things that stay in our house (for the most part) are the things that “spark joy.” Marie encourages people to focus on what they want to keep instead of what they want to get rid of. This helps one to visually see how much they have accumulated as well as makes you deal with it at one time instead of repeating the process with the same types of items multiple times. In order to identify what things need to be discarded, she recommends gathering all of the category items throughout your house and putting them all in the center of the floor. For example, when sorting clothing, you should do it in the following order: tops, bottoms, clothes that should be hung, socks, underwear, bags, accessories, clothes for specific events e.g. She also has an order of categories within each category. For example, instead of tackling your bedroom and then your kitchen, she has you sort something like clothing from all of the rooms at once.īased on her experience with clients, Marie has specified the order to take on the tidying process. The KonMari method has people tidy (discarding + storing) by category instead of by room. She wants people to do one major overhaul and then micro activities daily to maintain a tidy home. Marie Kondo insists her clients make tidying an event…a marathon is actually how she describes it.

The KonMari Method is a very specific approach to decluttering. Kondo focuses heavily on decluttering or discarding, after all, she’s a minimalist at heart! Let’s take a look at the basics of her method and the 16 things Marie Kondo says to discard. The KonMari method has two basic components 1) discarding and 2) deciding where to store things. For more information, please read my Affiliates Disclosure. To learn more, I read her best selling book “ The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up” and watched her “Tidying Up” show on Netflix! With that said, vertical filing is only one tiny part of the Konmari practice. I loved the idea and it really was life changing for our family.

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Don’t Miss Out! Grab your Free Tidying Up Quick Guide! Why I Read “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up”Ībout a year ago I came across some of Marie Kondo’s practices, namely, her practice of vertical filing of clothesin the chest of drawers. I want our house to be neat and tidy and regularly make the practice of clearing out unnecessary items. What is your practice of decluttering? Have you ever considered being a minimalist? I definitely wouldn’t call myself a minimalist, but I don’t love clutter.

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