My Review 3/5

Aside from the gratuitous repetition of the book, here is what I took away before I could listen no longer:

1. Ask yourself “do I want it” not “shall I discard it”
2. Hold it and ask “does it spark joy”
3. Group by category not by location
4. Don’t discard things for other people

Honestly though this books seems to appeal to apartment dwellers of high socio-economic status that can afford to replace functional items at their leisure. Filed under “books that should have been a blog post”.

– post script –

I wanted to clarify in the weeks after I read this book that the concepts are solid. But the writing was poor. Perhaps she could have tidied her book as well as she tidies her clients homes.

Date Read

Date Added

2017/04/13

Goodreads book information

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23862127

Bookshelves: did-not-finish

Author’s Note

Initial md Generated using https://github.com/jsr6720/goodreads-csv-to-md

Marie Kondō, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, Emily Woo Zeller Tantor 2015 (Audio CD)1

Significant Revisions

tags: 2017, book, review, Kondō, did-not-finish

  • Apr 22nd, 2024 Converted to jekyll markdown format and copied to personal site
  • Apr 13th, 2017 Originally published on goodreads

EOF/Footnotes

  1. ISBN: =”149450894X” ↩