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reviewed The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo (The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, #1)

Marie Kondo: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (Hardcover, 2014, Ten Speed Press) 4 stars

Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes …

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4 stars

I think this book is great. It challenges readers to alter their relationship with the world around them (spoiler: it's about altering what goes on internally, not endowing inanimate objects with agency). It's hard not to notice the minority of hate this book has inspired here on GR. The objections seem to reject the underlying philosophy of the book which I read as a sort of modernized applied Shintoism. Anyway, we could all use a little more truth in present tense these days and I, for one, felt emboldened by the Kon Marie method.

We're going full Kondo on our house this weekend and I'm pretty psyched about it. Wish us luck!