The Netflix series has sparked a whole new wave of tidying. But can I apply her minimalist approach to my love life, friendships and diet?
Marie Kondo is the latest in a long line of people put on this earth to make me feel bad about myself. I know, deep down, that everyone has problems, but on the surface Kondo very much appears to be someone who does not. I’ve never seen a more capable or composed human being in my life. Watching her kneel on the floor, patiently teaching stressed out suburban parents how to fold a T-shirt, fills me with equal parts delight and sadness. She’s exactly the sort of person I used to try to transform myself into every January, until I accepted I’m simply too psychologically feeble.
According to Kondo’s worldview, an orderly home begets an orderly life. The KonMari method, outlined in her 2012 book The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying and this year’s hit Netflix series, is designed to “spark joy in the world through tidying”. Once you’ve thrown away every grotty holiday vest from the 90s and learned how to organise your knives, so it goes, order within your relationships, career and digestive tract will soon follow.
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