"Decluttering for a move is different from decluttering just to 'spark joy,'" she says.
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This change is aimed at decluttering the app's chat function.
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McKinley asks people to think about their goal for decluttering.
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Leeds knows as well as anyone the power of decluttering.
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She recommended first decluttering and then using simple organizational systems.
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She recommended first decluttering and then using simple organizational systems.
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But decluttering is just generally good for combatting cabin fever.
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Emily is taking a page from Marie Kondo's book and decluttering.
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A quick way to make room is spending the day decluttering.
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After extensive decluttering, she's down to three shirts in her closet.
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Like green juice, the orthodoxy of decluttering can be hard to swallow.
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A series of moves later, she began to take decluttering very seriously.
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The decluttering guru Marie Kondo rarely exceeds a week's worth of clothes.
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The first step toward decluttering your fridge is to take everything out.
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I still crave simplicity and the contentment that apparently comes with decluttering.
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Mer Frazer, Schwenksville, PA Not sure I have to thank my clothes, but decluttering is a really good thing I don't necessarily swear by it, but I do think that decluttering, in general, is a really good thing!
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I couldn't discard it now, not for such a frivolous reason as decluttering.
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What spot in your room or house most desperately needs a little decluttering?
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Thus the popularity of decluttering gurus like Marie Kondo and stunts such as Souveny's.
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Organized by Abi uses Ness' decluttering techniques to help clients achieve their personal goals.
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My colleagues at the Wirecutter have a handy guide to decluttering your phone here.
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They said the best decluttering process for you could depend on your organization style.
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We asked McKinley and Shinn to share their best advice for decluttering your home.
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A broken washing machine resulted in the decluttering and reorganization of the laundry room.
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Decluttering your kitchen Having a messy, cluttered kitchen can lead to poor eating habits.
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Kondo, a Japanese organizational expert, went into families homes and employed her famous decluttering strategy.
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In the past, many stagers focused on decluttering and implementing minor tweaks in furnished homes.
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Jennifer Garner, Jimmy Kimmel, Charlize Theron and more have attempted Marie Kondo's popular decluttering method.
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The KonMari decluttering method emphasizes gratitude towards one's possessions and keeping objects that "spark joy".
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Haven't heard of Marie Kondo and her mission to "spark joy" by decluttering the world?
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And following these decluttering tips from a tiny house owner can help keep things tidy.
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Have you too been sucked into the decluttering vortex of Marie Kondo's new Netflix show?
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I devoured decluttering books and articles and ferried carloads of stuff to the thrift store.
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Most also help with decluttering and organizing the homes of seniors who wish to stay put.
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Decluttering queen Marie Kondo doesn't really want you to get rid of most of your books.
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Attendees could leave unwanted goods from decluttering their rigs or pick up needed items for free.
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With the real estate market sluggish, a little decluttering won't be enough to sell your home.
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It reminds me of my studio, but with less stuff — inspiration for my dream of decluttering.
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But a few moms I asked responded that they wanted a decluttering book for the holidays.
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Smarter Living: The British designer Anya Hindmarch likes "artful disarray," but she is ruthless about decluttering.
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If your home is a wreck, dedicate the day to cleaning and decluttering just one room.
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Margaux: Ms. Wolf says "Decluttering is a gateway drug," and in my case, she is certainly right.
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This year, Netflix's Tidying Up With Marie Kondo has elevated decluttering to the level of cultural zeitgeist.
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If you find yourself stuck indoors trying to beat the heat this weekend, consider decluttering your home.
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But just cleaning the house and decluttering space for the Lunar New Year is not good enough.
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Decluttering your bathroom counters by creating functional storage in your medicine cabinet can make everything feel cleaner.
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Decluttering with kids: Don't hesitate to involve them even if you have to offer them rewards to help.
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Decluttering isn't just about tossing your embarrassing collection of 2000s-era low-rise jeans into the garbage bin.
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Bringing in furniture, artwork and plants and decluttering rooms can help buyers picture themselves living in the home.
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We're living in an age where the act of decluttering is exalted as a kind of spiritual exercise.
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But, if you're like most people, a more incremental approach to decluttering your house might be more successful.
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You need to be honest about your "musts" and "wants" Using a kakeibo is about decluttering your finances.
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KonMari is a decluttering and organizing system that promises nothing less than improvements in every aspect of your life.
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While it's ideal for decluttering your nightstand at home, it's also the perfect cable to carry on the go.
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But most of us don't have a $78,000 pot of gold waiting at the end of our decluttering rainbow.
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It's amazing how much tidying and decluttering can be done in a few minutes before you begin your working day.
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So it looks as if Kondo's bank account will likely be the one thing she won't be decluttering anytime soon.
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But while the decluttering method has been instrumental to our home lives, we decided to take things a step further.
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In one sketch, a cast member playing the decluttering guru Marie Kondo is tasked with helping kids organize their homes.
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With her trademarked KonMari decluttering method, Ms. Kondo has led millions of acolytes to purge their closets, basements and pantries.
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That's relevant too — along with studies I've read about decluttering and reminder systems to improve concentration in those with PTSD.
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Decluttering has become a lifestyle, one that acclaimed "tidying consultant" Marie Kondo believes can lead to a better, more serene life.
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This announcement comes after Netflix debuted the reality show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, a Queer Eye-esque show about decluttering.
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It's a time-consuming process, but like the actual process of decluttering your home, it's not meant to be a race.
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To all the Twitter accounts I've loved before and have let go through this decluttering process: thank you for your service.
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Give yourself a buffer day before returning back to work, and set yourself up for success by decluttering before you go.
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He came away with clear guidance on digital decluttering: Remove most apps from your phone, leaving them only on your browser.
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The indoctrination started gently, with a podcast here, a YouTube video there, about minimalism, debt-free living, frugality, decluttering, zero waste.
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He sets small, realistic goals, like spending 10 minutes decluttering a few times a week, and often ends up doing more.
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For those of us hooked on the Netflix show "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo," this has been a season of decluttering.
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So, it only makes sense that our homes are in their best shape, from decor to decluttering, to handle our inner recluses.
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With spring in the air, it's time to rotate your mattress, empty out your refrigerator and face those really tough decluttering decisions.
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The issue's theme is "simplicity," a word that "can become interchangeable with something concrete, like decluttering," Joanna explains in her editor's letter.
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The Japanese organizer may be the star of the moment, but others have equally appealing theories and strategies for decluttering your home.
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That unfortunate act of chromosomal decluttering appears to put the men at a heightened risk of Alzheimer's disease, leukemia and other disorders.
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My suspicion is that the appeal of decluttering as inspired by Kondo's television show will prove as superficial as the show itself.
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Bed Bath & Beyond's new CEO has a plan to fix the beleaguered retailer, and it includes a major decluttering of its stores.
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In it we see the act of decluttering as a quest, and the tidied home as a proxy for our reborn selves.
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In my time working as a maid, I'd seen various decluttering projects — garages parceled out in preparation for yard sales or downsizing.
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If you, like me, spend a lot of time on IG, you might benefit from a bit of social media organization and decluttering.
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The inbox decluttering startup is growing 13 percent week over week as it looks to capture the 300 million smartphone users in India.
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Reorganizing your closet and decluttering your workspace is so much easier when Marie Kondo is holding you hostage with her demonic minimalist powers!
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"You don't want to keep anything around that doesn't spark joy," she said, echoing the mantra of Marie Kondo, the Japanese decluttering guru.
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Fay Wolf's NEW ORDER: A Decluttering Handbook for Creative Folks (and Everyone Else) (Ballantine, paper, $20) is a detox manual for the home.
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Decluttering Safari If you're tired of manually deleting each and every Safari tab you've ever opened, iOS 13 has a perfect solution for you.
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"Home sellers welcome a hassle-free experience selling your home without decluttering your garage or taking the kids out of the house," Rascoff said.
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In the same spirit of decluttering my phone, I'm excited about the ability to automatically close tabs after certain periods in the Safari browser.
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Create the right decluttering environment by surrounding yourself with good lighting, fun music, healthy snacks, plenty of water, a supportive friend or family member.
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His favorite for a new market might be what he calls a "decluttering robot," which would wander the house picking up after its occupants.
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Create the right decluttering environment by surrounding yourself with good lighting, fun music, healthy snacks, plenty of water, a supportive friend or family member.
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"Tidying up is a broad theme that is relevant to anyone in any country," said Kondo, who has a knack for decluttering her quotes.
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Decluttering may be liberating, but when you live in the city and you have a lot of junk, how do you dispose of it?
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Her book "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing" actually has a chapter forbidding altering the method!
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It may have snowed in New York City yesterday, but we're still in that April decluttering mindset — and clearly so are today's Amazon's Daily Deals.
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Marie Kondo might have officially made decluttering your home positively chic, but what's a gal to do when everything in your beauty stash sparks joy?
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We've featured numerous stories on solving the dilemma — from clever organization tips to decluttering advice — but sometimes, paring down your belongings is just not enough.
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With the SYMFONISK table lamp and bookshelf speakers, you’re getting two solid home audio products with the added benefit of decluttering your space.
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Kondo recalls that the national library of Japan held a large collection of tidying, decluttering and organizing books, but it didn't admit anyone under 18.
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If you're like me, your closet and, let's face it, your entire apartment, still look exactly the same as they did before your decluttering attempts.
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Mr. Szott says that works donated over the last five years have tended to come from older adults in the process of downsizing or decluttering.
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Smarter Living: A computer science professor offers clear guidance on digital decluttering: Remove most apps from your phone and use them on a browser instead.
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Marie Kondo is so ubiquitous she has become a verb — as in "Marie-Kondo-ing your closet" — one that describes the action of decluttering and cleaning.
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In the latest in a string of negative press for Uber, this past weekend a massive New York Times report revealed that email decluttering service Unroll.
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The process of decluttering Twitter this way will take time, but it will also give you the chance to truly consider whose content is worth following.
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Instead of doing a massive, procrastination-fueled decluttering to keep from freaking out, grab your laptop and head to a coffee shop or co-working space.
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Whether you're a longtime believer in Kondo's organizational method or a decluttering neophyte who just enjoys graphic novels, this is sure to be a fun read.
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People say they remove apps because they're just not using them, their interest has waned, their phone needed decluttering, or because they need more storage space.
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Ten books later, including her 2008 New York Times bestseller, "One Year to an Organized Life," Leeds knows as well as anyone the power of decluttering.
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My place isn't Marie Kondo–level tidy — and probably never will be — but a Facebook group that facilitates free, no-landfill decluttering really can spark joy.
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The Big Four have already retreated from overseas and are reversing a two-decade trend of snapping up wealth managers and brokers, while decluttering products and processes.
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Marie Kondo argues her decluttering method is a be-all, end-all solution, and despite my cult-like embrace of her ideas, that's the one I reject.
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Not every site on the web supports Safari Reader, so if you do not see the icon, the page most likely does not support Apple's decluttering function.
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Ms. Knight's book, patterned after "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" by Marie Kondo, is essentially a decluttering guide, but for a life, not a residence.
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Then, the reality star showcased the rest of the home and shouted out professional organizers, Life in Jeneral, for assisting her in decluttering and setting up her space.
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Decluttering home improvement projects peak early this week as retrograde Venus switches from your house of home to your house of communication on Wednesday, bringing up old conversations.
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"From decluttering and staging to pre-inspections, agents and homeowners often spend months behind the scenes prepping a home — well before it's listed on the market," Wacksman said.
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Ms. Shestakovskaia now runs Decor Hardcore as a media agency, offering art direction, set design and social media consulting for those seeking "extra" in the age of decluttering.
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Dr. Ayers not only conducted seminars for Mr. Keany's crew and the staff, but also held a workshop on hoarding and decluttering that more than 70 residents attended.
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His aim is to turn a stodgy European conglomerate into a cutting-edge pharmaceuticals firm by decluttering it of unwanted assets and placing big bets on advanced medicines.
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GOOD RIDDANCE By Elinor Lipman Elinor Lipman's latest novel opens with its heroine, Daphne Maritch, decluttering the small Manhattan apartment she's moved into after a brief, bad marriage.
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Abigail Ness, a 34-year-old research analyst from Nampa, Idaho, took inspiration from decluttering guru Marie Kondo and used home organization as a way to improve her finances.
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Provided you can back up all your important stuff without too much trouble, it's a great way of decluttering your machine and getting it as good as new again.
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The other unscripted series, "Master the Mess," will showcase the skills of so-called "decluttering gurus" Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin, founders of Nashville-based business The Home Edit.
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Decluttering inbound information: If used properly, a smartwatch can help you declutter your information flow by letting you see only what matters to you when it matters to you.
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While Ms. Moore does not subscribe to all the recommendations of the Japanese decluttering guru, she said that Ms. Kondo's method saves so much space they don't need dressers.
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Though Ms. Flanders got rid of nearly half her belongings when she started the ban, she recognizes the privilege in decluttering — and doesn't think it's a necessary step for everyone.
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I asked Peter Walsh, an organizer whose most recent book about decluttering is called "Let It Go," what he'd say to someone who'd obsessed for months over a missing trinket.
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That show, "Tidying Up With Marie Kondo," starring the best-selling Japanese author and pixie clean girl, created a national wave of decluttering within days of its release in January.
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For those who have been on Twitter from day one, it may be impossible to ever get through the decluttering process this way — but it's at least a productive time filler.
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I was acting ridiculous, chucking anything we didn't need, not because I was suddenly obsessed with decluttering but because I was scheduled for surgery the following week, and I was scared.
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They called themselves Konverts, and they say their lives have truly changed as a result of using her decluttering methods: They could see their way out of the stuff by aiming upward.
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Wealthfront: How 3 of the most popular high-yield savings accounts stack up I decided to organize my money using Marie Kondo's decluttering strategy, and ended up paying off $10,000 of debt
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Wolf has just debuted a book called New Order: A Decluttering Handbook for Creative Folks (and Everyone Else) that's full of millennially minded tips that will help you clean-attack your space.
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He found Charlotte folded neatly into the chair by the window in the den, already dressed in one of her dark, slim-cut suits, drinking coffee and reading a book about decluttering.
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Still, there is potential for decluttering, which leaves us with a pressing question: Just what records should we be keeping and for how long, and what can we safely shred or delete?
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If you're like many Americans, kicking off the new year right means spending time decluttering your home and cleaning out the closets and junk drawers that inevitably fill up throughout the year.
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Both the book and her new Netflix show, Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, which premiered on January 1 (prime time for New Year's Resolutions) espouse Kondo's deep belief in the art of decluttering.
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The elfin Ms. Kondo, perhaps the world's only decluttering celebrity, was promoting her new book, "Spark Joy," a more prescriptive manual (it comes with illustrations) than her last, which is a publishing juggernaut.
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You should try that basic reinstall first, but if it still doesn't give you the performance and decluttering boost you need, you can move on to a more comprehensive reset of your laptop.
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While the decluttering guru Marie Kondo has the world tossing their unwanted socks because they no longer "spark joy," Ms. Lohan, 38, teaches people how to make their space a reason to smile.
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Decluttering guru Marie Kondo -- who rose to fame with the Netflix series 'Tidying Up' -- stole her famous folding technique ... at least, that's the claim of another celeb organizer who wants her due credit.
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Whether you take it slowly over the course of a few weeks or plan to tackle it in one weekend, commit to the decluttering project and aim to keep it up throughout the year.
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Editor's Letter A desire to have fewer things in our lives can be seen in phenomena as diverse as the decline in luxury spending and the cult success of the decluttering superstar Marie Kondo.
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In the house, the furniture was well worn, but the rooms felt spare and airy, perhaps because she's "decluttering" using the Marie Kondo method and is proudly down to three shirts in her closet.
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Once unpacked in one of Julie's guest rooms, David gets to work decluttering the house and sets his sights on Kenneth, the proprietor of a home goods boutique whose primary appeal is his proximity.
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And that number is expected to increase over the next decade as the rest of the baby boom cohort moves into prime retirement age — now a quintessential time for decluttering and giving things away.
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Mindy Godding, a decluttering expert from Richmond, Va. also suggests thinking about how the new user will experience the product; does someone in an emergency shelter especially need an Urban Decay lip gloss sampler?
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Housing Works is busy this season, with donations up more than 2000 percent now that New Yorkers (along with the rest of America) are in the midst of a Marie Kondo-inspired decluttering blitz.
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The tidy-upper first made a name for upon the release book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, in 2011 (it was translated into English in 2014).
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Above: I may never be able to KonMari my way out of this The tool will ask you which order you want to use to begin the decluttering, with "oldest first" as the recommended default.
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Mr. Buatta's paradigm has been replaced most recently by that of Marie Kondo, whose 2014 book, "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing," remains a steady best seller.
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Which it must have been, unless the author has a friend at Netflix who whispered in her ear that, in the deep of winter 2019, Netflix would have a new hit reality series about decluttering.
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HaaS also taps into the current zeitgeist of minimalism, where books about decluttering become bestsellers and less-than-400-square-foot houses become the focus of popular TV shows, as well as the growing sharing economy.
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Stock up on supplies and do some decluttering, Lifehacker suggests, so your kids can have distraction-free work zones that they can work at in peace once those first few waves of homework start piling up.
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The most obvious response to KonMari, the store, is that Kondo's domestic decluttering was a long game plan to make people empty their shelves in order to make room for more things, purchased from Kondo herself.
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Japanese organization guru Marie Kondo's The Life‑Changing Magic of Tidying Up sparked an extreme decluttering trend in 2014, and How to Pack: Travel Smart for Any Trip by Hitha Palepu applies the minimalist method to travel.
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" The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo "The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.
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If you're not familiar with the Japanese author of the wildly popular decluttering manifesto, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, the gist is this: apart from the essentials, keep only those things that bring you joy.
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To appeal to a broader audience and in keeping with the brand of reality show it is, "Tidying Up" focuses on the individual stories of the people whose homes Kondo helps declutter, rather than the decluttering itself.
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I've accumulated a lot of crap (mostly clothing, beauty products, and geek toys) over the years due to my shopaholic ways, and I've turned to eBay as a way of decluttering but also earning spending money for myself.
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If you're like us, you've read (and re-read) Marie Kondo's best-selling book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing and immediately threw out everything in your kitchen junk drawer.
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Marie Kondo, the woman who turned closet organizing into a spiritual practice with her best-selling book The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, just made an announcement about her next project.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "The Class Politics of Decluttering," by Stephanie Land (Op-Ed, July 18): For 26 years I have lived in a wealthy town where the typical living room is larger than my tiny garage apartment.
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By replacing old booths with internet-connected kiosks, the phone companies say they are decluttering streets and giving Britons and tourists alike modern tools for navigating the city, resulting in more calls and frequent use of the touch screens.
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I see her a few days each year, during which I try to touch base with the last of her friends, do some cleaning and decluttering, have some fun with her and yes, nag her to make some changes.
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The executive can do that, and that would involve a delayering and decluttering, getting rid the cloud of folks that get in the way of decision-making and action and get in the way of appointees working with the career workforce.
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Like the decluttering empress Marie Kondo, whose "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" has sold over 5 million copies and spun into a buzzy Netflix series, Johnson promises a simpler, less materialistic life, richer in time, space, and experiences.
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Over the course of five days, she tried everything from starting the morning with breathing exercises and a cup of Japanese Green Tea (known for its mindfulness benefits) to decluttering her apartment and even stashing away all technology (yes, actually!).
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"It's important to do the necessary work to list the home, such as any cosmetic work needed, decluttering, and staging," Jared Barnett of Compass, who sells homes from $2 million to $5 million in New York City, told Business Insider.
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Related to this is the decluttering movement, which reached its peak with Marie Kondo's "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up," a global best-seller that led to Ms. Kondo being named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in 2015.
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During the first few days of my Internet decluttering, I found myself compulsively checking my unchanged in-box and already-read text messages, and scanning the same headlines over and over—attempting, as if bewitched, to see new information there.
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Since releasing her book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, in 2011 (it was translated into English in 2014), the Japanese organization guru and her KonMari method have changed the way people approach material possessions.
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It was by chance that my friend Megan sent me a link to an article praising Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, the enormously popular book on — you guessed it — tidying up, as told by Japan's Queen of Decluttering.
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There's some evidence that U.S. "consumers" are turning away from stuff, and even more convincing evidence that Americans are at least gesturing at minimalism: Marie Kondo's two guides to tidying up—that is, "Japanese art of decluttering and organizing"—have become bestsellers.
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"To achieve that, I'm implementing various measures, one of which is the app to support decluttering," said the woman whose name has been turned into a verb by followers who clean out clutter at home and say that have "Kondoed" their closets.
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Here are some side jobs could help get you achieve your money goals — and you can get started right now: Even if you're not at a Marie Kondo level, if you're hyperorganized and enjoy decluttering, you can turn it into a side job.
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"I was like, 'If two people can fit in here, I'll be fine,'" said Ms. Hall, who moved in a year ago with minimal worldly goods (she's an acolyte of the decluttering guru Marie Kondo) and a well-considered plan of attack.
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I start by filling out a document for my upcoming interview, cleaning paint off my boots (someone got paint on me at the party last night), and then move on to decluttering and organizing my belongings in our very limited storage space.
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In addition to her original decluttering bible, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo is the New York Times–bestselling author of Spark Joy and The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up. Together these titles have sold 11 million copies in 40 countries.
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Kondo is known to global audiences for her best-selling books, including "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing," which has been translated from Japanese to more than 40 languages, with more than 7 million copies sold worldwide.
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When Marie Kondo launched an online store earlier this week—which sells, for one thing, a $75 "tuning fork & rose quartz crystal set"—it inspired immediate backlash from people who'd taken the decluttering icon's message to mean tossing all their junk and somehow never accruing more.
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If Twitter is any measure, people are watching, and feeling genuinely inspired to declutter: Darby Saxbe, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Southern California, told me in a phone interview that she isn't surprised that audiences are embracing a show about organizing and decluttering.
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Of course, the terrible joke right now is that the coronavirus is the new KonMari, having scoured most businesses more thoroughly than any decluttering plan could by sending its messiest elements — people — home, a turn of events unlikely to lead to much joy, professional or otherwise.
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Of course, the terrible joke right now is that the coronavirus is the new KonMari, having scoured most businesses more thoroughly than any decluttering plan could by sending its messiest elements — people — home, a turn of events unlikely to lead to much joy, professional or otherwise.
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Mr. Rinaldi is a devotee of the decluttering guru Marie Kondo, and the only thing Mr. Mossel ever collected was piles of paperwork, so they didn't feel that they needed a whole lot of square footage (they had done a huge book purge before leaving California).
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Wordplay MONDAY PUZZLE — In Marie Kondo's best-selling book, "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up," one of the central tenets of her decluttering method is that if an item does not spark joy immediately upon picking it up, the owner should get rid of it.
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Her first book, "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying up," published in the U.S. in 2014, made her a superstar — maybe the world's first decluttering celebrity — and a publishing behemoth; it is still a best-seller, with over 8.5 million copies sold in over 40 languages.
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Decluttering your life can be like going on a diet: "You get really excited and make changes, and then very quietly you go back to the clutter," said Courtney Carver, creator of Project 333, a minimalist fashion challenge to dress with 33 items or fewer for three months.
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Here, Don Draper (who could, better than anyone, "evoke the terrifying state of having it all but needing more"); Tony Soprano; Fifty Shades; Shirley Jackson's books; Marie Kondo's neurotic decluttering; the foodie movement; and modern obsessions with survival fantasies all belong together—they're parts of the same Rubik's cube.
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An article last Sunday about apps for decluttering misstated the fee that one app, ThredUp, charges sellers to return items it has rejected, and referred imprecisely to the shipping arrangements for the "clean-out bag" that it sends to users to fill with clothes and accessories and return.
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To its advocates, decluttering, or "minimalism," is about more than just maximizing space: "By clearing the clutter from life's path, we can all make room for the most important aspects of life: health, relationships, passion, growth and contribution," say Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, hosts of "The Minimalists" podcast.
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Like many people looking to regain control of their lives by watching other people on television regain control of theirs, my wife and I binged Kondo's new Netflix show, "Tidying Up." In one uplifting episode after another, Kondo, a bestselling author and decluttering expert, helps untangle families from their excess belongings.
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In her new Netflix series, the decluttering guru Marie Kondo is shown not just sprucing up people's homes but also reimagining them as sacred spaces — channeling her experience as a former assistant at a Shinto shrine, along with the related belief that life, even consciousness, of a kind, courses through everything.
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" As a theatre actress in Chicago and then New York, she supported herself waiting tables, working at Petland (she was terrified of the lizards), decluttering for hoarders (she called her short-lived business Escape from Alcatrash), doing a Pizza Hut commercial (she was chided for asking, "Do I have to eat this?
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Two years after its U.S. debut, the hardcover, Kindle, and Audible editions of Kondo's manifesto still occupy the top sellers in the home Improvement & Design category on Amazon (the fourth and fifth most-popular titles are Unstuffed: Decluttering Your Home, Mind, and Soul and Spark Joy, an illustrated follow-up to Kondo's first book).
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Having a blast indulging in the stereotypical springtime "to do list" (dragging her husband, played by writer Brad Morris, along with her), then turns to that closet clean-out, inspired (aren't we all?) the KonMari cleaning method made famous by Marie Kondo's book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing.
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Coinciding with so many people's New Year's resolutions to make their homes more organized, the Netflix original series follows Marie Kondo, the best-selling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, as she helps real people clear out their clutter as a way to re-discover what really sparks joy in their lives.
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In their forthcoming book The Home Edit: A Guide to Organizing and Realizing Your House Goals (out March 19), the duo are bringing their tried-and-true decluttering methods straight from their celeb clients' closets into your home, along with step-by-step tips to help even the most organizationally-challenged among us implement and maintain their aesthetically pleasing lifestyle hacks.
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So, for those of you with similar concerns about aging family members and friends, I recommend a very helpful, comprehensive yet not overwhelming book, "Age in Place: A Guide to Modifying, Organizing, and Decluttering Mom and Dad's Home," by Lynda G. Shrager, an occupational therapist for the last 37 years who has worked with seniors in their homes for more than 13 years.
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Discussed this week: "Tidying Up With Marie Kondo" (Netflix, 2019) "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing" (Marie Kondo, 2014) "The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter" (Margareta Magnusson, 2017) Wesley Morris is the critic at large for The New York Times and a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine.
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