Freedom of space; tidying as self-care; and a joyful life—that’s the global allure of the KonMari method. We are now making it our own, despite our ethos of maximal living.
Detailed by Japanese organising consultant Marie Kondo in her book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (2011), this method of decluttering till you own only what “sparks joy” has spawned thousands of Facebook groups, Instagram feeds and YouTube videos. For someone who started reading home and lifestyle magazines at five, Marie struggled to find organisational zen in her family home, spending hours ‘tidying’ daily and learning the hard way to leave family members’ possessions out of it. She was inspired (literally) at 15 to undertake “a study of tidying” after a fainting spell brought on by organisational stress, which pushed her to devise the KonMari method. At 19, as ​a university student, she had launched her own consultancy.
This story is from the November 2017 edition of Better Homes & Gardens India.
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