A review by sarahsays
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
4.0
I've been on this journey of unlearning a lot of stuff I learned as a child. My parents were wonderful, but no matter how great, society has a way of slipping under your skin like a rusty knife. I've re-learned how to eat, how to see my body as a woman, how to exercise, and had to find my place in the world.
Marie Kondo's book helped me to figure out a path forward for all the junk I have in my life. She gave me a new way to look at stuff, to really look at stuff.
On its surface her message is simple: only keep the stuff that gives you joy. Isn't that why we buy lots of stuff in the first place? In search of happiness? So, when your stuff fulfills that mission, why keep it around?
We live in a house full of my husband's grandparents stuff. His family really really doesn't want to clean... when they do they seem really depressed. They keep everything "just in case." I haven't touched too much, but there is a lot of STUFF here. This book gave me a path forward to cleaning and... for the first time... I think I'm willing to tackle it all.
For that it gets four stars. Heck, I considered giving it five. But there's one thing missing from the book: A chapter on ideas for getting rid of stuff sustainably. The thought of throwing 30 bags of stuff into the trash makes me cringe. This is perhaps outside the scope of this book, and unfair of me to ask, but it would've made it perfect in my opinion.
Marie Kondo's book helped me to figure out a path forward for all the junk I have in my life. She gave me a new way to look at stuff, to really look at stuff.
On its surface her message is simple: only keep the stuff that gives you joy. Isn't that why we buy lots of stuff in the first place? In search of happiness? So, when your stuff fulfills that mission, why keep it around?
We live in a house full of my husband's grandparents stuff. His family really really doesn't want to clean... when they do they seem really depressed. They keep everything "just in case." I haven't touched too much, but there is a lot of STUFF here. This book gave me a path forward to cleaning and... for the first time... I think I'm willing to tackle it all.
For that it gets four stars. Heck, I considered giving it five. But there's one thing missing from the book: A chapter on ideas for getting rid of stuff sustainably. The thought of throwing 30 bags of stuff into the trash makes me cringe. This is perhaps outside the scope of this book, and unfair of me to ask, but it would've made it perfect in my opinion.