Marie Kondo’s deceptively simple ‘Tidying Up’ tips are spreading the gospel of delight when Americans need it most
I never read Marie Kondo’s book,“The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.” When the English translation hit shelves in 2014, Kondos guide became a modern York Times Bestseller and her advice to question if an item “sparks delight” became portion of the cultural vernacular. I deliberately steered the other way. Smash-hit best-sellers scare me. I acknowledge their success, or I store absent the title for later reading once the hype dies down — and then the film or TV version comes out and I inevitably just watch that instead. Personal history repeated itself when Kondo’s modern Netflix show,“Tidying Up,” dropped in one neat and bingeable eight-episode package on Jan. 1. I watched, or I questioned why I’d never read the book,and then I got inspired. Along with what feels like everyone else on my social media feeds, I’ve spent the early days of 2019 decluttering my living space and learning how to properly fold.
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