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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying

A Simple, Effective Way to Banish Clutter Forever

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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying

By: Marie Kondo
Narrated by: Lucy Scott
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Summary

Discover the simple habits to help you transform your home organisation and live in a clean and clutter-free home forever with organising consultant Marie Kondo.

THE MILLION-COPY JAPANESE BESTSELLER
THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
AS SEEN ON THE MAJOR NETFLIX SHOW, TIDYING UP WITH MARIE CONDO

Are you constantly decluttering, only for the mess to return? Do clothes overflow from your wardrobe, paperwork pile up, and cupboards fill with things you no longer use?

In The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying, Japanese organising consultant Marie Kondo shares her renowned KonMari Method—a practical, step-by-step approach to decluttering and organising your home that focuses on keeping only the items that truly "spark joy."

Unlike traditional room-by-room cleaning methods, the KonMari Method encourages you to tidy by category, helping you make thoughtful decisions about what to keep and how to organise your belongings. The result is a home that is easier to maintain and a more intentional approach to the things you own.

Inside you'll discover how to:

  • Declutter your home using the proven KonMari Method
  • Organise clothes, books, papers, sentimental items and more
  • Create storage systems that are simple and easy to maintain
  • Decide what to keep by asking whether it truly sparks joy
  • Build lasting habits for a tidy, organised home


Whether you're starting a full home reset, embracing a more minimalist lifestyle, or simply looking for practical decluttering and home organisation advice, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying offers a simple guide to transform your home.

© Marie Kondo 2016 (P) Penguin Audio 2016

 Cleaning & Organizing House & Home Personal Development Personal Success Stress Management Decluttering Inspiring Feel-Good Funny Thought-Provoking Minimalism
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Critic reviews

Its strength is its simplicity. (Richard Lloyd Parry)
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.
Do I love it? If not, chuck it. Marie Kondo promises that by following her KonMari Method I will be a neatnik, forever ... I decide The Life-changing Magic of Tidying will become my bible. (Brigid Moss)
[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.
The tidiness regimen prescribed by Japanese author Marie Kondo is a great idea. It’s so great that maybe we need to expand its reach
Ms. Kondo delivers her tidy manifesto like a kind of Zen nanny, both hortatory and animistic
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)
The Japanese expert’s ode to decluttering is simple and easy to follow
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
Her voice . . . is by turns stern and enchanted, like a fairy godmother for socks
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I am currently working through each step of the MarieKondo method. I was stunned to have 27 bags of large 40-litre bin bags. I took these to charity. Many of my clothes still had price tags. I had kept these clothes as I felt GUILTY removing them because I had not worn them.

Using the method described in the book, I have been able to let go. What an amazingly liberating feeling I feel.
I love the Japanese folding technique and I can see all my clothes in an instant. Before I used to hang everything. I have lots of empty storage and it excites me about the future I am creating ahead.

Now I have all my books stacked in the center of my room, ready to go through Step 2 of the MarieKondo Method of Tidying.

Step 1 removed 27 large bin bags

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listened to it twice, then put the words into action- it's definitely a method that works and a lot better for converting normies to minimalists than most others I've read.

reorganised my entire life because of this book!

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literally life changing. bold statement I know but it's true. I first read it 18 months ago and I'm still neat and tidy. believe me, if it works for me I can work for anyone.

literally life changing.

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I loved this book. finished listening to it in 2 days and it game me the motivation to organise and declutter my house. I can't believe the things I found that I thought I had lost and the amount of things I threw out because I had no idea I had them or even what they were for. if I ever get lazy I will definitely listen to this again

motivational

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Despite the undertones of classism and sexism, this book contains practical advise around the act, and philosophy of, tidying your space.

Potentially useful

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