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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying

A Simple, Effective Way to Banish Clutter Forever

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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 bestseller

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 only need 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 read this compelling book.

© 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

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
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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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This book is great at teaching how to de-clutter your life. It isn't just about tidying up tips, it asks things a bit deeper into what it is you might want to change that you think a uge de-clutter will help with and maybe there's more too it.

Also some excellent practical tips that genuinely work. I have this as an audio book and an actual little hard back.

I did find the narration sometimes a little electronic which I had to persevere through initially.

But overall, happy purchase.

Great Bible!

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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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