Getting distracted from the category you're working on is where disaster lies. It'll stop you feeling somewhat panicky about the piles of clutter? Just stick to working by category. Recognise that it'll get worse before it gets better What is a line or an image that you'll remember for years to come from a book that you let go of? We carry books in our hearts and we shouldn't feel as though we're losing the memory of the story by parting with the physical item! Photo by Marie KondoĪ photo posted by on at 1:21pm PDT 3. No brown belts? Sell 10 of the black belts online and buy yourself a nice brown one with the proceeds. Sorting by category will allow you to identify gaps, too. Perhaps you've ended up with 10 extra tins of supermarket brand baked beans (shudder) that will never get eaten? Send them to the food bank. And, if you're an owner of 25 identical belts, you can thin them down and only keep the best ones. and so on.Įmptying all the items by category at once allows you to see just how much stuff you've got in that category. Kids' rooms? Start perhaps with all the toys before you begin on clothes. If you're working on your bedroom, you might get all your clothes and shoes out of your wardrobes and totally reorganise, declutter and put back before you start on your makeup drawer, for example.įifteen out of date travel guides on your living room bookshelves? The charity shops will love 'em. So, if you're tidying up and decluttering your kitchen, you might get all the food out at once and put it back before you start on all the china and cookware. Start by emptying your cupboards/wardrobes/drawers by category. Thank your home – it gives you shelter, after all. Ask yourself, does this item 'spark joy'?ħ. Tidy by category not location – more on this later.Ħ.
Don't start tidying before you've finished discarding.Ĥ.
Imagine your ideal lifestyle – or, picture your home not as it is in the 'before' but as an 'after'.ģ. Commit to tidying up (in other words, set aside some time to do that and nothing else).Ģ. Just a few more pages, then I’ll get started.1. In a quest to tackle my own clutter, I read them all: not just Kondo’s book, but others including The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning Goodbye, Things Stuffocation… Buying the books was another form of procrastination reading is easier than doing. Her book Spark Joy, which explains the “KonMari method”, has inspired many to dump the junk.īut for some of us, the ruthless approach to editing our possessions, near-fetishistic rolling of clothes into balls, and unwavering acceptance that minimalism is intrinsically a good thing, sparks not joy, but a flicker of revolt, in the way that the clean-eating brigade might send us dashing for the chocolate. Who knew that tidying up could become the hit of the season?īut then Kondo is the neatnik wonder of our age – her books have sold 11 million copies worldwide. Then along comes Marie Kondo and her new Netflix series, Tidying Up, with her perfect bob, shining smile and the right plastic box for the right space.
Just as the first week of the new year is the most popular time to file for divorce, many of us, when January rolls around, can no longer avert our eyes from the less-than-perfect state of our homes.
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