Decluttering Your Closet With the KonMari Method
Jun 27, 2015 23:44:17 GMT -5
Post by PurplePuppy on Jun 27, 2015 23:44:17 GMT -5
This looks really interesting. The idea is to only keep things that bring you joy...
I Decluttered My Closet With The KonMari Method And Here's What Happened
My name is Chanel and I collect a lot of stuff.
From clothing to papers to the weird knick-knacks I've won at bar trivia nights, my room is covered in so many items, one might wonder how I live there. Even though I clean at least once a week, my room is rarely as neat as it could be. Once you accumulate so many things over the course of so many years, it's hard to find a place for everything. After all, that lipstick I haven't put on in the past year might come in handy one day!
No it won't. I know this because I just finished reading the popular book, The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art Of Decluttering And Organizing.
If you're not familiar with the title, it's basically the book of January 2015, or what I like to call the monthlong period when everybody tries to fulfill their "be more organized" resolutions. Written by Marie Kondo, a consultant who's made a successful career in, well, tidying up spaces, the book is based on childhood anecdotes and testimonials from clients who have all tidied up their homes based on her decluttering method. Spoiler alert: there is a right and wrong way to tidy up a space according to Kondo, and we have all been doing it incorrectly.
Kondo's philosophy emphasizes the mental attachment we have to our possessions and her approach is quite simple: declutter first, then store. To declutter a space, she asks her clients to go through every item in their possession and question whether those items "spark joy." If a certain object fails to do so, chuck it.
Once clients have completed decluttering their homes, Kondo's "KonMari" method requires that clients find a specific place for EVERYTHING that's left.
Rest of the story and pictures at link
I Decluttered My Closet With The KonMari Method And Here's What Happened
My name is Chanel and I collect a lot of stuff.
From clothing to papers to the weird knick-knacks I've won at bar trivia nights, my room is covered in so many items, one might wonder how I live there. Even though I clean at least once a week, my room is rarely as neat as it could be. Once you accumulate so many things over the course of so many years, it's hard to find a place for everything. After all, that lipstick I haven't put on in the past year might come in handy one day!
No it won't. I know this because I just finished reading the popular book, The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art Of Decluttering And Organizing.
If you're not familiar with the title, it's basically the book of January 2015, or what I like to call the monthlong period when everybody tries to fulfill their "be more organized" resolutions. Written by Marie Kondo, a consultant who's made a successful career in, well, tidying up spaces, the book is based on childhood anecdotes and testimonials from clients who have all tidied up their homes based on her decluttering method. Spoiler alert: there is a right and wrong way to tidy up a space according to Kondo, and we have all been doing it incorrectly.
Kondo's philosophy emphasizes the mental attachment we have to our possessions and her approach is quite simple: declutter first, then store. To declutter a space, she asks her clients to go through every item in their possession and question whether those items "spark joy." If a certain object fails to do so, chuck it.
Once clients have completed decluttering their homes, Kondo's "KonMari" method requires that clients find a specific place for EVERYTHING that's left.
Rest of the story and pictures at link
