![]() It’s an enlightening process, but Kondo admits the approach took some finessing: Early on she held up a perfectly good hammer, found it joyless, trashed it, and then burst into tears when she broke her favorite ruler while trying to use it as a substitute tool. This is all thoroughly and rather delightfully outlined in her books, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and its illustrated companion Spark Joy, both of which are so pert and unobtrusively sized that they appear to be making a case for their own necessity. Clothing, memorabilia, old laptops, greeting cards, and unused skin-care samples, for example, that do not spark joy when held in one’s hands should be thanked for their service and discarded. A lot of it does not “spark joy,” a phrase Kondo popularized, designed to help us evaluate what we actively want to keep as opposed to what we’re merely unwilling to throw away. Her books have sold 11 million copies in more than 40 countries, and on January 1, her Netflix series, Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, featuring Margie and seven other L.A.-area households, will bring Kondo’s philosophy and technique to a global audience.įor anyone unfamiliar with her KonMari method, here’s what you need to know: Most of us have way, way too much stuff. That made me feel very validated.”Īt 34, Kondo is the only living person who can claim with any authority to be a “decluttering guru,” and for the past decade, she’s been on a mission to organize the world. ![]() “But Marie immediately said she could see how I am experiencing joy in my belongings. “I was quite apprehensive at first because I have a lot of stuff that is a little quirky and different from what I perceive is her minimalist style,” Margie tells me. If, for some reason, she were to do a cartwheel, I imagine every hair on her head would instantaneously return to its place in her neat, shoulder-length coif. In person, she is petite and immaculate, dressed in an ivory silk blouse and a pink floral skirt. They ran a restaurant together called Tub’s Fine Chili, and the décor embraces their flair for kitsch: A neon Rick’s Café sign hangs over the bar, and there’s a wooden carousel horse on a brass pole in the bay window.ĭespite having spent an inordinate amount of time among the viscera of other people’s homes, surveying their dust-covered possessions and everyday messes, Kondo does not blend easily into her surroundings. Her three grown children have moved out (but left lots of belongings behind), and she recently lost her husband, Rick, to colon cancer. Margie has lived in her two-story Culver City house for 29 years. It’s a sunny afternoon in mid-May, and Japanese author Marie Kondo is helping Margie, a recently widowed 59-year-old woman with whom she’s been working since March. Photo: Denise Crew/Netflix/Denise Crew/Netflix
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