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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

By: Marie Kondo
Narrated by: Sarah Skaer
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The book that sparked a revolution and inspired the hit Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo: the original guide to decluttering your home once and for all.

ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE—CNN

Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?

Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you’ll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever. The KonMari Method, with its revolutionary category-by-category system, leads to lasting results. In fact, none of Kondo’s clients have lapsed (and she still has a three-month waiting list).

With detailed guidance for determining which items in your house “spark joy” (and which don’t), this international bestseller will help you clear your clutter and enjoy the unique magic of a tidy home—and the calm, motivated mindset it can inspire.

©2014 Marie Kondo (P)2025 Random House Audio Buddhism House & Home Personal Development Personal Success Philosophy Zen Decluttering Minimalism Health

Critic reviews

“Ms. Kondo delivers her tidy manifesto like a kind of Zen nanny, both hortatory and animistic.”—The New York Times

“A literal how-to-heave-ho, and I recommend it for anyone who struggles with the material excess of living in a privileged society. (Thanks to Ms. Kondo, I kiss my old socks goodbye.) . . . To show you how serious my respect for Ms. Kondo is: if I ever get a tattoo, it will say, Spark Joy!”—Jamie Lee Curtis, Time

“Reading it, you glimpse a glittering mental freedom from the unread/uncrafted/unworn, buyer’s remorse, the nervous eyeing of real estate listings. Life’s overwhelm, conquered.”—The Atlantic
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Provides motivation and maybe reasoning as to Why you should clean up. I remember about 10 years ago businesses were pushing start with why to their employees in training videos. This book reminds me of that. Tidying is more than just OCD or cleaning up because someone maybe coming over. It will also change your state of mind and you will carry your clean house with you wherever you go. It’s a mindset, she says at the beginning of the book. She actually doesn’t recommend cleaning all the time and says it usually takes her client one major event and then they will just keep their environment clean the rest of the time without having to take a lot of time to clean up. This long time of cleaning up happens once she says, then after that it’s much easier to keep tidy maybe because your mindset has changed once you realize “the magic of tidying up” she instructs you to keep what sparks joy but this may be different things for different people and as you age what used to spark joy for you may not have meaning in your life as of right now. She likens to this to past relationships maybe you may not keep a relationship forever but you valued it along your journey through life. If it still sparks joy keep it, if not it may be time to move on.

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very interesting methods I can see she thought about this for a long time it was very helpful as I've worked and listened to her I did get a lot done in my house always more insight is good

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