It is crucial, not only to tidy by category, but also to follow the correct order – clothes, books, paper, komono (miscellany) and sentimental items. For example, when tidying up in the clothing category, gather every item of clothing from the entire house in one spot, This allows you to get an accurate grasp on the sheer volume of the things you own. The correct approach is to tidy by category. This approach doesn’t work because people think they have tidied up – but they have only stuffed items around the house, making it impossible to get an accurate grasp of the volume of things they actually own. One of the most common mistakes people make is to tidy room by room. In order to successfully finish tidying up, you must finish discarding first. When things are put away, a home will look neat on the surface, but it will be impossible to keep your home organized if it is filled with unnecessary items that do not bring you joy.
One characteristic of people who are never able to finish tidying up is that they attempt to store everything – without letting go of anything. When you imagine your ideal lifestyle, you are clarifying why you want to tidy and identifying what kind of life you want to live. Sketch out what it looks like, describe it in a notebook or create a digital mood board. Think about what kind of home you want to live in and what your life would be like. New Year marks a time for new beginnings – and tidying requires reflecting on what you own and reconsidering how you want to live. Intentionally setting time aside to tidy and giving yourself deadlines, is crucial to success. Try setting monthly goals, ie: tackle clothing in January, books in February etc.
No home is impossible to tidy – all that matters is your commitment. The KonMari Method of tidying – which tackles tasks by category – is very simple to follow:ġ) Clothing, 2) Books, 3) Paper, 4) Komono (kitchen, bathroom, garage and miscellaneous) 5) Sentimental items. Tidying up once and for all this year may seem like a daunting task but believe in yourself and apply the right method. Even though I have no clue what she’s saying, she somehow makes it sound pleasant. For many of the people featured on the new show, tidying up is an emotional processīut the moment of reckoning is here, and Kondo is standing in our closet, smiling enigmatically as she speaks in rapid-fire Japanese to her translator, Kay. In fact, I’ve spent a week re-organizing the clutter, pestering my husband to put his stuff away and instructing our two home-for-the-holidays adult daughters to pick up their mess. “I think it would be fun to tidy Buckingham Palace,” says Kondo, 34, when she visits my home in Hollywood.Īfter years of interviewing celebrities, several even visiting my home, I’ve never felt more apprehensive than this visit by the Queen of Clean. Cementing her legacy with Spark Joy, an illustrated follow-up to her tidying up bible, Kate Hudson, Oprah and Jamie Lee Curtis are among her many celebrity followers although word has quietly spread to the UK where Kondo has 17 certified KonMari consultants out of a total 223 trained tidy experts operating in 30 countries. Today the self-professed neat freak, who urges people to fold their clothes “taco style” so they stand-up, sits atop a vast de-cluttering empire based on her trademarked KonMari Method.
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