She followed up with Spark Joy a few years later. In an attempt to help more people, Marie wrote The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up to explain her KonMari Method to the world, and it has been a huge success. (She now recommends focusing your tidying efforts on your own items rather than on family members’ belongings! ? )Īs an adult, Marie began giving tidying lessons in clients’ homes, and her results were so incredible that she soon had a months-long waiting list of people clambering for her services! She even went so far as to discard some of her family’s items in secret, and when she was found out, she was forbidden from tidying anyone’s items but her own. But if you’re not yet sure if this whole tidying craze is right for you, I hope to help with that by giving you a basic rundown of all things KonMari in this post!Īt one point during her experimenting, she realized that the key to organizing was not only arranging things neatly, but also discarding items (particularly those that did not “spark joy”), which became the focus of her work.
If you really want to dive deep into the KonMari method, I highly suggest reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and its companion, Spark Joy. I didn’t completely agree with everything it said, but it prompted a mindset shift that has totally changed the way I have organized and operated our home over the last four years. Reading Marie Kondo’s book was a huge “aha” moment for me. I had become fed up with the fact that our house always felt like a cluttered disaster area, and even though it was small, I knew I could do a better job of making it an organized and more enjoyable place for our family to spend our time. For more information, see my disclosures here.Ī little more than four years ago now, I stumbled upon a little book called The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo.Īt the time, I was living in a little townhouse with my husband Donnie and our two boys, who would have been about 6 and 3.