Marie Kondo and Spring clearing
In recent years, Marie Kondo and her bestselling book "The Life Changing Magic of Tidying" have brought decluttering and clearing out into the spotlight. APDO member Clara Moore, of Glasgow professional organising company Joy of Space, is one of the UK's first qualified Marie Kondo Consultants. In this blog post for Spring Clearing Week, she tells us all about the "KonMari" method.
Decluttering using the Marie Kondo method
Are you a tidy person? Do you have tidy habits? Did anyone ever teach you how to be like this?
I know I wasn’t taught this as a child. Through persistence and trial and error, I worked to develop these skills for myself, but it wasn’t until I came across the KonMari method of life tidying that it all fell into place.
I was so deeply inspired by her book and her method, that I immediately undertook what Marie Kondo calls a "life tidying festival". From then on it has been so much easier to spring clean – something I enjoy doing every few months rather than just once a year.
Marie Kondo developed her method on:
- six basic rules of tidying
- the act of one big life tidying festival
- the act of confronting yourself, your habits and your nature.
The Marie Kondo method
Marie Kondo firmly purports that “life truly begins only after you have put your house in orderâ€