#1 New York Times Best Seller! This 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.
Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate
like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles? Japanese
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).
With detailed guidance for determining which items in your house “spark
joy” (and which don't), this international bestseller featuring
Tokyo's newest lifestyle phenomenon will help you clear your clutter and enjoy
the unique magic of a tidy home–and the calm, motivated mindset it can
inspire.
Reviews
"[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. – The London Times
“The most organized woman in the world.” – PureWow
“Ms. Kondo delivers her tidy manifesto like a kind of Zen nanny, both
hortatory and animistic.” – The New York Times
“…bracing practical guide to tidying up your home.” –
Financial Times
“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?” – USA Today
“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.” – Good
Housekeeping (UK)
Author Biography
Marie “KonMari” Kondo runs an acclaimed consulting business in Tokyo
helping clients transform their cluttered homes into spaces of serenity and
inspiration.With a three-month waiting list, her KonMari Method of decluttering
and organizing has become an international phenomenon. “The Life-Changing
Magic of Tidying Up” is a best seller in Japan, Germany, and the UK, with more
than two million copies sold worldwide, and has been turned into a television
drama for Japanese TV. She has been featured on more than thirty major Japanese
television and radio programs and in the “Sunday Times,” “Red” magazine,
“You” magazine, and the “Times, "who has deemed her "Japan's preeminent
guru of tidiness, a warrior princess in the war on clutter.”