We also had compatible differences, which proved useful to both of us. We shared a love of travel, theater and suede shoes. We'd unknowingly socialized with overlapping friends for years. We had met in our cancer support group, but our relationship was based on so much more than disease. Jessica was a professional career coach and an exceedingly proficient amateur pack rat. And it's what motivated Jessica and me, as a last act of our friendship, to do our own version of it. It's that imperative to give your stuff serious time and attention and respect - even the junk you're ditching - that makes Kondo's mission resonate so deeply with so many people.
Are you prepared to gently tell your old sweatpants you're breaking up with them? If not, you might not be ready to KonMari. It requires the practitioner to do heavy emotional work, lovingly reconnecting with items that inspire, and gratefully releasing those that don't. KonMari principles deviate from many traditional decluttering strategies (and a whole lot of The Container Store's raison d'etre) by suggesting that your life can improve not by adding more boxes but by having fewer things to put in them. And of course, a Netflix TV series has been announced as well. Today, they've spawned countless imitators and homages, from the " The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k" to " The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning." If Kondo's books aren't sufficiently motivational, you can sign up for seminars in implementing her techniques, or, if you've evolved to a higher plane, train to become a certified KonMari consultant yourself. Since her first book published in Japan in 2011, Marie Kondo's famed tactics have developed the kind of cult-like following usually reserved for gluten-free diets. Yet, conversely, I have carried a sizable chunk of concrete from a Philadelphia demolition site - as prized as it is heavy and impractical - to every home I've lived in for my entire adult life. And it sounds like heresy to most of the people I love, but I don't even keep every single book I've ever read. I recoil from gifts that come with an expectation of dusting. My aesthetic is functional, if not fully minimalist. Long before Marie Kondo became a global icon for her KonMari method and her bestselling book, " The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up," I had internalized my own directive to put maximum attention into the things that, as Kondo says, "spark joy," and ditch the rest. Of my numerous faults, a capacity for clutter isn't one of them. I had known what we were doing all along, but I hadn't really let myself accept it until she said that. Down from the bookcase and into the recycling they went. "I don't want the last thing I see to be a pile of old Wired magazines," Jessica said.
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