![]() ![]() "Spark Joy" comes with a nicely illustrated 57 page. Kondo's method works, so go with it - even if it means performing a Japanese purifying rite so you're okay with letting some stuffed animals go. All those classes in psychology I've taken give me a complex explanation for why what Kondo suggests works, but there's no reason to end up in psychoanalysis on the way to decluttering. In my first listen of the first book, I mentally made fun of improperly hung unused blouses feeling abandoned, and laughed at thanking worn tennis shoes for their hard work - until I set aside skepticism and tidied my clothes. Kondo anthropomorphizes clothes, books and even pots and pans. "Spark Joy" isn't gong to make a lot of sense without reading/listening to "The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up" first. That is, if clothes can feel proud - and In Kondo's world, they do. I marched Dad to my dresser and displayed my own carefully folded clothes, arrayed by color, standing proudly in the KonMari way. My dad watched, shaking his head in wonderment, as the hosts folded t-shirts, making them stand up vertically on their own. Marie Kondo was making her first guest appearance on an American morning show, introducing "Spark Joy" (2016), the follow up to "The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up" (2011, Japanese 2014, English). The other morning, my elderly father and I were watching 'Good Morning America'. ![]()
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