{"product_id":"the-lifechanging-magic-of-tidying-up-isbn-9781607747307","title":"The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up","description":"\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER • The book that sparked a revolution and inspired the hit Netflix series \u003ci\u003eTidying Up with Marie Kondo\u003c\/i\u003e: the original guide to decluttering your home once and for all.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE—CNN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDespite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJapanese 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). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith 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.Introduction   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Why can’t I keep my house in order?   \u003cbr\u003e You can’t tidy if you’ve never learned how  \u003cbr\u003e A tidying marathon doesn’t cause rebound  \u003cbr\u003e Tidy a little a day and you’ll be tidying forever \u003cbr\u003e Why you should aim for perfection \u003cbr\u003e The moment you start you reset your life  \u003cbr\u003e Storage experts are hoarders \u003cbr\u003e Sort by category, not by location \u003cbr\u003e Don’t change the method to suit your personality \u003cbr\u003e Make tidying a special event, not a daily chore \u003cbr\u003e Finish discarding first   \u003cbr\u003e Start by discarding, all at once, intensely \u003cbr\u003e and completely \u003cbr\u003e Before you start, visualize your destination \u003cbr\u003e Selection criterion: does it spark joy? \u003cbr\u003e One category at a time \u003cbr\u003e Starting with mementos spells certain failure \u003cbr\u003e Don’t let your family see \u003cbr\u003e If you’re mad at your family, your room may be the cause  \u003cbr\u003e What you don’t need, your family doesn’t either \u003cbr\u003e Tidying is a dialogue with one’s self \u003cbr\u003e What to do when you can’t throw something away \u003cbr\u003e Tidying by category works like magic  \u003cbr\u003e Tidying order: follow the correct order of categories \u003cbr\u003e Clothing: place every item of clothing in the house on the floor \u003cbr\u003e Loungewear: downgrading to “loungewear” is taboo \u003cbr\u003e Clothing storage: fold it right and solve your storage problems \u003cbr\u003e How to fold: the best way to fold for \u003cbr\u003e perfect appearance  \u003cbr\u003e Arranging clothes: the secret to energizing your closet \u003cbr\u003e Storing socks: treat your socks and stockings \u003cbr\u003e with respect \u003cbr\u003e Seasonal clothes: eliminate the need to store off-season clothes \u003cbr\u003e Storing books: put all your books on the floor \u003cbr\u003e Unread books: “sometime” means “never” \u003cbr\u003e Books to keep: those that belong in the hall of fame  \u003cbr\u003e Sorting papers: rule of thumb—discard everything \u003cbr\u003e All about papers: how to organize troublesome papers  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKomono\u003c\/i\u003e (miscellaneous items): keep things because you love them—not “just because” \u003cbr\u003e Common types of \u003ci\u003ekomono\u003c\/i\u003e: disposables  \u003cbr\u003e Small change: make “into my wallet” your motto  \u003cbr\u003e Sentimental items: your parents’ home is not a haven for mementos   \u003cbr\u003e Photos: cherish who you are now  \u003cbr\u003e Astounding stockpiles I have seen  \u003cbr\u003e Reduce until you reach the point where \u003cbr\u003e something clicks  \u003cbr\u003e Follow your intuition and all will be well  \u003cbr\u003eStoring your things to make your life shine   \u003cbr\u003e Designate a place for each thing  \u003cbr\u003e Discard first, store later  \u003cbr\u003e Storage: pursue ultimate simplicity  \u003cbr\u003e Don’t scatter storage spaces  \u003cbr\u003e Forget about “flow planning” and “frequency of use”  \u003cbr\u003e Never pile things: vertical storage is the key \u003cbr\u003e No need for commercial storage items  \u003cbr\u003e The best way to store bags is in another bag \u003cbr\u003e Empty your bag every day  \u003cbr\u003e Items that usurp floor space belong in the closet  \u003cbr\u003e Keep things out of the bath and the kitchen sink  \u003cbr\u003e Make the top shelf of the bookcase your personal shrine  \u003cbr\u003e Decorate your closet with your secret delights \u003cbr\u003e Unpack and de-tag new clothes immediately \u003cbr\u003e Don’t underestimate the “noise” of written information  \u003cbr\u003e Appreciate your possessions and gain strong allies \u003cbr\u003e The magic of tidying dramatically transforms your life \u003cbr\u003e Put your house in order and discover what you really want to do \u003cbr\u003e The magic effect of tidying  \u003cbr\u003e Gaining confidence in life through the magic of tidying \u003cbr\u003e An attachment to the past or anxiety about the future  \u003cbr\u003e Learning that you can do without  \u003cbr\u003e Do you greet your house?  \u003cbr\u003e Your possessions want to help you \u003cbr\u003e Your living space affects your body  \u003cbr\u003e Is it true that tidying increases good fortune?  \u003cbr\u003e How to identify what is truly precious  \u003cbr\u003e Being surrounded by things that spark joy makes \u003cbr\u003e you happy \u003cbr\u003e Your real life begins after putting your house in order  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Afterword     \u003cbr\u003e About the author   \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cp\u003e“Ms. Kondo delivers her tidy manifesto like a kind of Zen nanny, both hortatory and animistic.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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!”—\u003cb\u003eJamie Lee Curtis, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTime\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book lives up to its title: it will change your life.”\u003cb\u003e—B.J. Novak,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeople\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book is a cult. A totally reasonable, scary cult that works, doesn’t kill people (a bonus), but does drastically change your life. In this case — for the better.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The most organized woman in the world.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePureWow\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“The Japanese expert’s ode to decluttering is simple and easy to follow.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Her voice . . . is by turns stern and enchanted, like a fairy godmother for socks.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Atlantic \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“All hail the new decluttering queen Marie Kondo, whose mess-busting bestseller has prompted a craze for tidying in homes across the world . . . one proper clear out is all you need for the rest of your life.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping \u003c\/i\u003e(UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“How could this pocket-sized book, which has already sold over 2 million copies and sits firmly atop the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Seller list, make such a big promise? Here's the short answer: Because it's legit. . . . Kondo's method really can change your life — if you let it.”\u003cb\u003e—Today \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kondo challenges you to ask yourself whether each object you have is achieving a purpose. Is it propelling you forward or holding you in the past?”\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“A brief and bracing practical guide to tidying up your home.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[It is] enough to salute Kondo for her recognition of something quietly profound: that mess is often about unhappiness, and that the right kind of tidying can be a kind of psychotherapy for the home as well as for the people in it . . . Its strength is its simplicity.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe London Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarie Kondo\u003c\/b\u003e is a tidying expert, star of the Netflix series \u003ci\u003eTidying Up with Marie Kondo\u003c\/i\u003e, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author, and founder of KonMari Media, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEnchanted with organizing since her childhood, Marie began her tidying consultant business as a 19-year-old university student in Tokyo. Today, Marie is a renowned tidying expert helping people around the world to transform their cluttered homes into spaces of serenity and inspiration.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMarie has been featured on more than fifty major Japanese television and radio programs as well as in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes \u003c\/i\u003eof London, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEllen\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eRachael Ray \u003c\/i\u003eshow, and many more. She has also been listed as one of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine’s 100 most influential people.Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, I have summed up how to put your space in order in a way that will change your life forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Impossible? A common response and not surprising, considering that almost everyone has experienced a rebound effect at least once, if not multiple times, after tidying. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Have \u003ci\u003eyou\u003c\/i\u003e ever tidied madly, only to find that all too soon your home or workspace is cluttered again? If so, let me share with you the secret of success. \u003cb\u003eStart by discarding. Then organize your space, thoroughly, completely, in one go. \u003c\/b\u003eIf you adopt this approach—the KonMari Method—you’ll never revert to clutter again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Although this approach contradicts conventional wisdom, everyone who completes my private course has successfully kept their house in order—with unexpected results. Putting their house in order positively affects all other aspects of their lives, including work and family. Having devoted more than 80 percent of my life to this subject, I \u003ci\u003eknow\u003c\/i\u003e that tidying can transform your life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Does it still sound too good to be true? If your idea of tidying is getting rid of one unnecessary item a day or cleaning up your room a little at a time, then you are right. It won’t have much effect on your life. If you change your approach, however, tidying can have an immeasurable impact. In fact, that is what it means to put your house in order. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I started reading home and lifestyle magazines when I was five, and it was this that inspired me, from the age of fifteen, to undertake a serious study of tidying that led to my development of the KonMari Method (based on a combination of my first and last names). I am now a consultant and spend most of my days visiting homes and offices, giving hands-on advice to people who find it difficult to tidy, who tidy but suffer rebounds, or who want to tidy but don’t know where to start.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The number of things my clients have discarded, from clothes and undergarments to photos, pens, magazine clippings, and makeup samples, easily exceeds a million items. This is no exaggeration. I have assisted individual clients who have thrown out two hundred 45-liter \u003cbr\u003e garbage bags in one go.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From my exploration of the art of organizing and my experience helping messy people become tidy, there is one thing I can say with confidence: \u003cb\u003eA dramatic reorganization of the home causes correspondingly dramatic changes in lifestyle and perspective. It is life transforming. \u003c\/b\u003eI mean it. Here are just a few of the testimonies I receive on a daily basis from former clients.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAfter your course, I quit my job and launched my own business doing something I had dreamed of doing ever since I was a child.Your course taught me to see what I really need and what I don’t. So I got a divorce. Now I feel much happier.Someone I have been wanting to get in touch with recently contacted me.I’m delighted to report that since cleaning up my apartment, I’ve been able to really increase my sales.My husband and I are getting along much better. I’m amazed to find that just throwing things away has changed me so much. I finally succeeded in losing ten pounds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My clients always sound so happy, and the results show that tidying has changed their way of thinking and their approach to life. In fact, it has changed their future. Why? This question is addressed in more detail throughout the book, but basically, \u003cb\u003ewhen you put your house in order, you put your affairs and your past in order, too. \u003c\/b\u003eAs a result, you can see quite clearly what you need in life and what you don’t, and what you should and shouldn’t do. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I currently offer a course for clients in their homes and for company owners in their offices. These are all private, one-on-one consultations, but I have yet to run out of clients. There is currently a three-month waiting list, and I receive inquiries daily from people who have been introduced by a former client or who have heard about the course from someone else. I travel from one end of Japan to the other and sometimes even overseas. Tickets for one of my public talks for stay-at-home parents sold out overnight. There was a waiting list not only for cancellations but also for the waiting list. Yet my repeater rate is zero. From a business perspective, this would appear to be a fatal flaw. But what if my lack of repeaters was actually the secret to the popularity of my approach? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As I said at the beginning, people who use the KonMari Method never revert to clutter again. Because they can keep their space in order, they don’t need to come back for more lessons. I occasionally check in with graduates of my courses to see how they are doing. In almost every case, not only is their home or office still in order but they are continuing to improve their space. It is evident from the photographs they send that they have even fewer belongings than when they finished the course, and have acquired new curtains and furnishings. \u003cb\u003eThey are surrounded only by the things they love. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Why does my course transform people? Because my approach is not simply a technique. The act of tidying is a series of simple actions in which objects are moved from one place to another. It involves putting things away where they belong. This seems so simple that even a six-year-old should be able to do it. Yet most people can’t. A short time after tidying, their space is a disorganized mess. The cause is not lack of skills but rather lack of awareness and the inability to make tidying a regular habit. In other words, the root of the problem lies in the mind. Success is 90 percent dependent on our mind-set. Excluding the fortunate few to whom organizing comes naturally, if we do not address this aspect, rebound is inevitable no matter how much is discarded or how cleverly things are organized.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So how can you acquire the right kind of mind-set? There is just one way, and, paradoxically, it is by acquiring the right technique. Remember: the KonMari Method I describe in this book is not a mere set of rules on how to sort, organize, and put things away. It is a guide to acquiring the right mind-set for creating order and becoming a tidy person. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Of course, I can’t claim that all my students have perfected the art of tidying. Unfortunately, some had to stop for one reason or another before completing the course. And some quit because they expected me to do the work for them. As an organizing fanatic and professional, I can tell you right now that no matter how hard I try to organize another’s space, no matter how perfect a storage system I devise, I can never put someone else’s house in order in the true sense of the term. Why? Because a person’s awareness and perspective on his or her own lifestyle are far more important than any skill at sorting, storing, or whatever. Order is dependent on the extremely personal values of what a person wants to live with. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Most people would prefer to live in a clean and tidy space. Anyone who has managed to tidy even once will have wished to keep it that way. But many don’t believe it’s possible. They try out various approaches to tidying only to find that things soon return to “normal.” I am absolutely convinced, however, that everyone can keep his or her space in order. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To do that, it is essential to thoroughly reassess your habits and assumptions about tidying. That may sound like far too much work, but don’t worry. By the time you finish reading this book, you will be ready and willing. People often tell me, “I’m disorganized by nature,” \u003cbr\u003e “I can’t do it,” or “I don’t have time”; but being messy is not hereditary nor is it related to lack of time. It has far more to do with the accumulation of mistaken notions about tidying, such as “it’s best to tackle one room at a time” or “it’s better to do a little each day” or “storage should follow the flow plan of the house.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In Japan, people believe that things like cleaning your room and keeping your bathroom spick-and-span bring good luck, but if your house is cluttered, the effect of polishing the toilet bowl is going to be limited. The same is true for the practice of feng shui. It is only when you put your house in order that your furniture and decorations come to life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When you’ve finished putting your house in order, your life will change dramatically. Once you have experienced what it’s like to have a truly ordered house, you’ll feel your whole world brighten. Never again will you revert to clutter. This is what I call \u003cb\u003ethe magic of tidying. \u003c\/b\u003eAnd the effects are stupendous. Not only will you never be messy again, but you’ll also get a new start on life. This is the magic I want to share with as many people as possible.","brand":"Ten Speed Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300989948133,"sku":"NP9781607747307","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781607747307.jpg?v=1767740227","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-lifechanging-magic-of-tidying-up-isbn-9781607747307","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}