Most of the suggestions in this book are things I already do to some extent, but there's a certain animistic grounding in Kondo's suggestions that annoyed me. It's also important to remember the culture it comes from - for instance many Japanese live an intensely urban lifestyle and don't have huge collections of DIY tools and materials.Ĭrazy OCD suggestions for "tidying up" such as speaking gratitude to your socks and placing them in a certain way in your drawer, not hanging tees in the closet but folding a very particular way and keeping them in drawers. If all the people reading this book learn what they really need and get off the consumer cycle, then Kondo is ultimately doing us a favour. But then I realised I'm deluding myself about how much we waste making all the 'things' in this world and how broken and one-way our consumer system is - taking things to a charity shop doesn't solve much. I was imagining various landfills filling up with these (possibly) perfectly good '1 million items'. I found all the references to 'throwing out' quite jarring, instead of recycling or donating. Some of her later ideas can sound pretty out there, but if you listen without judgement you can just take what feels right for you beyond her basic 'Konmari' method. The author gets into this in the second half of the book, and I found this much more thought provoking. It's about how and why you live your life, and uncovering what's important to you. At its core this book is not really about tidying.
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