This is review for
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, sold at Amazon.com
This #1 New York Times 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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
#1 New York Times Best Seller
Amazon's Best Book of 2014 in Crafts, Home & Garden
"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 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.com
". . . 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.com
"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
About the Author
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 named one of the 100 most
influential people in the world by
Time, featured on more than thirty major Japanese television and radio programs, and profiled in the
Sunday Times,
Red magazine,
You magazine, the
New York Times,
USA Today, NPR's
Here & Now,
Slate,
Family Circle, and the
London Times, who has deemed her “Japan’s preeminent guru of tidiness, a warrior princess in the war on clutter.”
Product Details
- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Ten Speed Press; 1 edition (October 14, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1607747308
- ISBN-13: 978-1607747307
-
Product Dimensions:
5.1 x 0.8 x 7.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
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