The Magic Of Marie Kondo

The life changing magic of tydying up by Marie Kondo. I came to know about this book when I was reading articles on organising. In most of the articles, this book is quoted as a best self-help book in Organising.

The Life changing magic of Tidying up 

This book is written by a Japanese author Marie Kondo. It is about keeping your house in order. The method of organising in this book is called as Konmari method.  Kondo says putting your life in order brings positive affect in your life and transforms your life. she says reorganising home, brings change in your lifestyle and perspective. She started organising from her childhood and now she is professional house organiser with a specific course called Konmari Method which is designed by her own experience. She claims that whoever completes her course and follows the Konmari method can keep their home and life organised without any rebound. She claims that till now she has zero repetitive clients.

The Konmari method is about decluttering and organising.

1.Discard First so you can perfectly organise the remaining things and keep only things what you use and need. 
2.She uses a rule to discard things and says keep only things  that sparks joy. 
3.Visualise the destination like how you want your House to look after you keep it in order. 
4.Follow order of categories. Start with clothes, books, papers, kitchen items and miscellaneous items
5.Fold clothes in a proper way and keep everything vertical position and   tricks for energising your wardrobe by keeping in the order of colours.
6.Treat all things with respect and care for the service they give.
7.No complex storage solutions to store things. Keep same category items at same place and notify the frequency of usage. 


My review on this book.

This book motivates to organise your home and helps in delcuttering. 

Decluttering is very difficult task and there will be so many reasons to keep things even if we don't use them. But the reasons in this book on Why we need to declutter is convincing and  motivates us to discard things without guilt. 

May be some of the things discussed in this book are known but this book has really a magic in motivating and visualising that clean and organising home. The things which I liked most in this book are:

1.How to Fold

2.Why I need to declutter things

3.No need to purchase organisers to keep ur house in order. 

It is enough if we declutter properly and keep things which we only use and like or in Kondo's  language which sparks joy we can keep the house in order.

Happy Organising.