{"id":803,"date":"2015-01-19T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/katrina.effexhost.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/19\/book-review-the-life-changing-magic-of-tidying-up\/"},"modified":"2015-01-19T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T15:42:00","slug":"book-review-the-life-changing-magic-of-tidying-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/19\/book-review-the-life-changing-magic-of-tidying-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This New York Times best-selling guide to decluttering your home from Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes readers step-by-step through her revolutionary KonMari Method for simplifying, organizing, and storing.<\/p>\n

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

Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you\u2019ll 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\u2019s clients have lapsed (and she still has a three-month waiting list).<\/p>\n

With detailed guidance for determining which items in your house \u201cspark joy\u201d (and which don\u2019t), this international bestseller featuring Tokyo\u2019s newest lifestyle phenomenon will help you clear your clutter and enjoy the unique magic of a tidy home\u2014and the calm, motivated mindset it can inspire.<\/p>\n

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\nAchieve strikes again! Achieving a tidier and healthier living space.<\/p>\n

Okay, I’m a sucker for certain types of books. Organization is on the top of that list. By nature, I’m a natural organizer, but I’m always looking for new ideas. I didn’t necessarily find any in this book, but she does have a simple method that I’ve been telling folks for years… Does it bring you joy? If not, let it go. It’s a method that I talk about in my own Organization group on Facebook and it’s one that I think everyone should employ. Obviously, this doesn’t work for certain things like necessary cooking or cleaning products, but it does in nearly every other scenario. There are certain things that don’t work in every home (such as placing bookshelves into closets), but I think that this is a book that everyone can take something from and make it work for you. No plan is perfect for everyone, but everyone can tweak.<\/p>\n

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