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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying
- A Simple, Effective Way to Banish Clutter Forever
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
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Summary
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Live in a clean and clutter-free home forever with the life-changing KonMari Method - now a multi-million copy international best seller.
Transform your home into a permanently clear and clutter-free space with the incredible KonMari Method. Japan's expert declutterer and professional cleaner Marie Kondo will help you tidy your rooms once and for all with her inspirational step-by-step method.
The key to successful tidying is to tackle your home in the correct order, to keep only the things you really love and to do it all at once - and quickly. After that for the rest of your life you need only to choose what to keep and what to discard.
The KonMari Method will not just transform your space. Once you have your house in order, you will find that your whole life will change. You can feel more confident, you can become more successful, and you can have the energy and motivation to create the life you want. You will also have the courage to move on from the negative aspects of your life: you can recognise and finish a bad relationship; you can stop feeling anxious; you can finally lose weight.
Marie Kondo's method is based on a 'once cleaned, never messy again' approach. If you think that such a thing is impossible, then you should definitely listen to this compelling audiobook.
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- j3n
- 20-02-20
Bland, sterile and utterly joyless. The book equivalent of boil in the bag rice.
Hideous. The woman has found a way of monetising her neurosis and I helped her do it. Don’t give her any more money for godssake, she’ll only write more books. I’ve no idea why I even went there but I did. I’ve taken one for the team so you don’t need to. Just get some decent storage and stop buying shite and you’ll be just fine.
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- William Burke
- 03-06-19
She recommends storing carrots standing upright in the fridge.
My wife insisted that I listen to the audiobook. In fact, rather then getting a birthday present for her this year, I bought this and listened to it.
Undoubtedly the most difficult birthday present (or present of any kind) that I’ve “gifted”.
It’s not all bad. To store things in boxes and to fold towels so that they don’t hang over the shelf edge makes sense.
But most of her advice is stupid. It just gets worse and worse. And then when you think it can’t get any worse, she recommends storing carrots standing upright in the fridge!!!
As for disposing of everything (including clothes) that does not “fill you with joy”... If I did that I’d be arrested for public exposure when I walk the children to school.
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- Friendly Face
- 19-10-16
read it at last!
Would you consider the audio edition of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying to be better than the print version?
Bought the book weeks ago but it took me getting it on Audible to get me started. Finished it in two days and have since filled my car with old clothes and books - home already looks and feels better - looking forward to carrying on decluttering tomorrow.
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- Robin
- 28-05-19
Sexist, elitist drivel.
Written from the perspective of someone with deeply outdated opinions on gender and no experience of ever being poor, the ‘method’ is the exclusive plaything of those that can simply replace anything that is thrown away.
Capped off with some pseudoscientific nonsense about the dietary benefits of diarrhoea.
This book is more suited to being a stuffy Victorian manual for good housewives written by a hateful misogynist rather than the modern age.
Wouldn’t recommend unless you have a fetish for condescension.
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- Sally Berry
- 28-09-16
Amazing
Don't hesitate to buy this book. I feel so much lighter after putting my life in order. Definitely one of the most important books I've read to date. There is also an app that helps take you through the entire process. Good luck!
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- tbrayford l.
- 08-08-17
Very disappointed
It's the first book that I've ever returned- it's not credible in my mind, when the author started conversing with inanimate objects and projecting personalities onto them, objects such as her socks and handbags I knew that I was listening to the delusional ramblings of an obsessive- save yourself the pain and avoid this one
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- Sigma
- 08-10-16
Wonderful
How wonderful to now have Marie Kondo on audible. It enables a refresh for my memory at any time. This makes me happy as does being tidy.
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- Andy T
- 30-11-18
If you found this great advice...
...then you had lousy parenting.
I painfully went through the whole book, believing, after all there are many great reviews, that the ah hah moment would arrive.
It didn’t happen. I found this book immensely frustrating.
What’s happening to the world when such books make it into the adult world. (Kings new clothes?)
The narrator is superb, though I felt sorry for her having to read the bleeding obvious.
A place for everything and everything in its place ... dad lived by that and even when he was bed bound, he still knew where everything was.
Chuck out what you don’t need. Needs v wants. You know the stuff.
The ole chestnut. Just Do It. Reading won’t do it for you.
We all know a clean, clear area equates to clearer thinking.
Save your money and buy something enjoyable.
I feel mean not writing a better review. But it won’t change your life. It won’t change a lightbulb, unless you need the book to stand on.
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- K Bright
- 17-09-17
Stopped listening
Stopped listening when told to greet my home with my name and to talk to my items.
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- Beth
- 13-03-19
Not what I expected
I have wanted to read this book for a few years and after the popularity of the new Netflix show I thought I would finally take the plunge.
Unlike her show the book seems to be a little more unforgiving and a very strict in ideologies. As a creative I found it very difficult and a little too practical way of living, bordering on obsessive tidying - for example emptying your handbag every night.
I believe it very much could be life changing for some people, especially those who are looking for the kind of home you see in magazines, but it’s just not for me.
I will however still be looking if something sparks joy!
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