This #1 New York Times best-selling guide to decluttering your home from Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes readers step-by-step through her revolutionary KonMari Method for simplifying, organizing, and storing.

I usually visit client home and give her one-to-one organizing lesson.

So first of all, let me start how I usually work with my clients.

So she is the lady who lives in this room.

You already see in this picture that she has full of stuff from her bed.

Actually, that's actually her bed, but you might not see it.

And she also had a lot of stuff on the floor.

And she first told me that, don't you think the bedroom is just like a storage?

So when she comes home after work, she never, ever feel relaxing in her room.

OEBUCKERI So my job is to consult how to organize, and I've been doing this job for more than 10 years.

Characteristics of my consultation is that my client never go back to the mess because They have been transformed to the organized person.

Today, I'm going to tell you how to make your house in order in a way that will change your life forever.

So before I start telling you what to do, let me tell you how I start my job, how I discovered this method.

MARIE KONDOROKA-MARUOKANA I was only 5 years old when I got very interested in how to organize things.

So I was always picking up every single issue of the magazine that my mother was subscribing.

And the magazine was about how to organize the house.

YUKIKO ALBANOSCHE-SWARNSCHEKER ANDREA AYAKAWA SPEAKING JAPANESE

So when I turned 15 years old, I started a serious consultation to how to organize things.

There was a bestseller book in Japan titled, a technique to get rid of things.

And I read that book, and I discovered the method.

I have read every single book on cleaning in Japan.

You would probably wonder how I started researching organizing things.

First, I started reading every single book published in Japan on organizing.

hontou ni mainichi katazuke wo jissen shitsuzuke mashita.

I worked every single day organizing things.

Followed by the kitchen, living room, bathroom, my friend's room, friend's room, friend's room, my classmate, classroom, classroom, classroom of the school, and again, return to my own room.

So I spent most of my teenage years organizing things just like that.

And I started organizing consultation business when I was 19.

I also picked this topic in my thesis at college.

YUKARI NAKAGAWA It's So safe to assume that I am a crazy, tithing, fanatic.

ITO So you are perfect to think that I'm a fanatic organizer at this point.

MARIE KONDOROKOA-MARUKANANI So I'd like to present KonMari method, which I discovered to everybody here today.

Tidy in 1 shot, as quickly and completely as possible.

If you think you have to tidy around you every day, gradually, little by little, that's completely wrong.

KONDOROKOA-MARUOKAWA Because you need a shock that changes your mind into tidying your thing.

So you want to finish it in a very short period of time.

So the first important thing is to set the deadline of organizing.

Of course, you can set the deadline in 1 week, assuming that you're going to do that every day.

Or you decide to do every weekend and set the deadline in 3 months.

KONDOROKOA-DAVIDESON So don't MARIE KONDOROKOA-MARUOKANI So don't think about tidying as an everyday event.

It's a special event, just like a festival.

MARIE KONDOROKOA-MARUOKANI So don't think about

So, what should we do to finish cleaning up in such a short period of time?

This is the next part of Konmari Method 2.

So the number 1, number 2 item in Konmari method is how you're going

It never ends if you try to tidy up in just 1 portion of the closet or 1 portion of the living room.

JR.: The right way to do is to organize by category and do it quickly.

MARIE KONDOROKOA-YOSHIDA Well for example, if you decide to organize your clothes first, take out all the clothes in your house in 1 spot.

Make a big pile of all the clothes you have in your house.

YUKI KONOSHIWA So just in the same way, if you decide to organize your books, take out all your books from your bookcase and pile them up in 1 location in the house.

If you bring out all your stuff, books, clothes, in 1 location, you visually realize how much books, how much clothes, how many clothes, how many books you have.

On a daily life, we rarely understand how much stuff we have around us.

So it is a great opportunity if you bring out everything in 1 spot, realize how much stuff you have, how many books you have, so that you can decide which 1 you want to keep, which 1 you really need to keep, and which 1 you can get rid of.

So from this point, the next step you have to take is to sort them, separate them, Separate them between the things you need and things you don't.

And the criteria I recommend in my method is a little bit unique.

know I definitely feel weird air in this room right now.

This is a really common reaction in my seminar.

YUKIKO ALBAROFF FORMER JAPANESE INTERPRETER

So what I mean by saying spark joy, I can explain exactly what it is.

So if you look at 1 thing, you should question yourself if that thing makes you happy, does it make you impressed?

Many people always think first which 1 to get rid of.

But it is much more important to think which 1 to keep, which 1 you want to keep, and live together from now on.

YUKIKO ALCADORN So I will tell you how to make a decision.

So point number 1, make sure you touch it.

take every single item you can think of on your hand.

And imagine how your body reacts to that moment, how you feel when you touch the item.

So Spark Joy, this is the reaction from your body, the reaction you feel from your body when you touch the item you should keep.

So if you feel every single part of your body faces up when you touch the item, that's the right feeling.

On the other hand, if the item doesn't give you any inspiration, for example, this 1.

INTERPRETER 2 All body started feeling down.

I know you are skeptical, but if you really try to do this, you realize how your body really reacts.

MARIE KONDOROKOA-YOSHIDA Definitely after this seminar, when you go home tonight, try part of it.

YOSHINOKE YOSHINOKE 私の方法、コンバリメソッドの基本的な三つの方法ですね。 一気に、短気に、完璧にやっていくということ。 そして二つ目が、物別に集めて一気にやっていくということ。 そして三つ目が、ときめくものを選ぶということ。 これが今日私がお伝えした基本の三つのメソッドです。 YOKO TAMURA-FANSELOVA-HONTON

Do it quickly, in a short amount of time, and sort by category, and find the item if the item sparks joy.

And if you need to know more about it, if you'd like to know more about it, please pick up this book.

So I definitely want every 1 of you to read my book, but I will give you 1 more technique.

MARIE KONDOROKOA-YOSHIDA So this is the right order of organizing.

MARIE KONDOROKOA-YONEKAWA So There's definitely the right order when you organize stuff.

Start from clothes, books, document, miscellaneous items, then mementos.

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