Marie Kondo - who or what is she? Please elucidate!

I don’t need someone to make a lot of money out of telling me how to not live ?clever lady who ever she isI ll manage it for myself just another fad methinks I doubt our life is any poorer for not knowing who she is Rowan

She has a good idea for having a major de cutter/tidy . Don’t do it by room, do it by category E.g. decide to track down every single writing implement in the house and sort through them the. Store in one place.

It’s one of my pet rants at the moment older people who keep cluttter, so unfair on their offspring who will have to deal with it when they die. One friends father in law left such a cluttered house it took his sons weeks and weeks to clear.

I love her method. The secret is not to take everything in its literal sense.

One of her good rules is to have the same thing in the same place. I found 9 bottles of cough medicine scattered around the house when I started. Now I know exactly where everything is. Whether it is first aid, scissors, pens, cottons, cleaning material, everything has its own place/

She does say don’t buy storage materials , but I found having lots of boxes really helped me organise. I have some big boxes in my under stairs cupboards. I have separate ones for baking dishes, Pirex. dishes, Pirex lids, cake making stuff. It males life so much easier just to look through a box rather than search the whole cupboard for a tin.

You really don’t have to throw out things you love. For clothes, I started with, things that don’t fit, things that are uncomfortable to wear, then clothes that I had not worn for ages. I have saved loads of money, as I only buy stuff I need now.

A lot of her ideas, like thanking clothes for their service is nuts. However my hoarder husband, who had paperwork going back 40 years, 20 pairs of shoes and loads of suits, suddenly took it on himself to have a clear out. He had 10 times the stuff to get rid off than me. I really could not believe that just watching me Marie Kondo the house inspired him, where 40 years of nagging had left him unmoved.

No, don’t go there Rowantree.
Not unless you’re prepared to sling out all the things that you’ve collected over a lifetime and mean something to you and you fancy living in a cold, clinical environment!