The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

De: Marie Kondo

Narrado por: Sarah Skaer

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The book that sparked a revolution and inspired the hit Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo: the original guide to decluttering your home once and for all.

ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE—CNN

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 will help you clear your clutter and enjoy the unique magic of a tidy home—and the calm, motivated mindset it can inspire.

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“Ms. Kondo delivers her tidy manifesto like a kind of Zen nanny, both hortatory and animistic.”—The New York Times

“A literal how-to-heave-ho, and I recommend it for anyone who struggles with the material excess of living in a privileged society. (Thanks to Ms. Kondo, I kiss my old socks goodbye.) . . . To show you how serious my respect for Ms. Kondo is: if I ever get a tattoo, it will say, Spark Joy!”—Jamie Lee Curtis, Time

“This book lives up to its title: it will change your life.”—B.J. Novak, People

“This book is a cult. A totally reasonable, scary cult that works, doesn’t kill people (a bonus), but does drastically change your life. In this case — for the better.”—BuzzFeed

“The most organized woman in the world.”—PureWow

“The Japanese expert’s ode to decluttering is simple and easy to follow.”—Vogue

“Her voice . . . is by turns stern and enchanted, like a fairy godmother for socks.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Reading it, you glimpse a glittering mental freedom from the unread/uncrafted/unworn, buyer’s remorse, the nervous eyeing of real estate listings. Life’s overwhelm, conquered.”—The Atlantic

“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)

“How could this pocket-sized book, which has already sold over 2 million copies and sits firmly atop the New York Times Best Seller list, make such a big promise? Here's the short answer: Because it's legit. . . . Kondo's method really can change your life — if you let it.”—Today

“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

“A brief and bracing practical guide to tidying up your home.”—Financial Times

“[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

I can't wait to put this book into practice!

I love the way she explains how to let go of your stuff. I feel so buried. Now I have hope!

I loved this book!

I have a great respect for Japanese Culture. I wish I could have read this book years ago!

Must listen

It’s impossible to listen to this book and not start tidying and applying her teachings immediately.
Will be listening to this again !

finally?

very interesting methods I can see she thought about this for a long time it was very helpful as I've worked and listened to her I did get a lot done in my house always more insight is good

Good

Provides motivation and maybe reasoning as to Why you should clean up. I remember about 10 years ago businesses were pushing start with why to their employees in training videos. This book reminds me of that. Tidying is more than just OCD or cleaning up because someone maybe coming over. It will also change your state of mind and you will carry your clean house with you wherever you go. It’s a mindset, she says at the beginning of the book. She actually doesn’t recommend cleaning all the time and says it usually takes her client one major event and then they will just keep their environment clean the rest of the time without having to take a lot of time to clean up. This long time of cleaning up happens once she says, then after that it’s much easier to keep tidy maybe because your mindset has changed once you realize “the magic of tidying up” she instructs you to keep what sparks joy but this may be different things for different people and as you age what used to spark joy for you may not have meaning in your life as of right now. She likens to this to past relationships maybe you may not keep a relationship forever but you valued it along your journey through life. If it still sparks joy keep it, if not it may be time to move on.

Author has extraordinary conviction

The book has great inspiration for the endless task of cleaning your home. My favorite perspective is the meditation within the task.

Meh. Some good ideas, some slightly fanatical. Presented in a condescending and somewhat lecturing manner.

The book has some useful advice that I found helpful. There are some great pointers about decluttering your home, and the best way to store things. However, some of the ideas were a little extreme, and probably not practical for the general population. It was also difficult to get past the narrator’s sing song and condescending tone. Anecdotal tales of Marie Kondo‘s “clients” were vocalized in a manner that made her clients sound ditzy and foolish, which I felt detracted from the book’s more useful content.