Understandably by Bill Murphy Jr.

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Cleaning Up: The Marie Kondo Story
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Cleaning Up: The Marie Kondo Story

Or: "How to make a tidy sum." (Or some other horrible pun.) Plus 7 other things worth reading.

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Nov 21, 2019
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Cleaning Up: The Marie Kondo Story
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In late 2015, I went full KonMari.

I read Marie Kondo’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, and I put it into action.

The results were positive, but not quite “life-changing.” I got rid of about eight big bags of stuff, but sadly, I later returned to my natural, non-tidy state.

Occasionally, I’ll give it another shot.

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$200 Tea Container…

On Wednesday, I took a quick look back at The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up — still on my Kindle—in light of something I’ll get to in a minute.

I was drawn to a few chapters in particular:

  • “Start by discarding, all at once, intensely and completely,”

  • “Discard first, store later,”

  • “Reduce until you reach the point where something clicks,”

  • “Learning that you can do without,” and perhaps my favorite—

  • “$200 Tea container is handcrafted from hardy Japanese elm”

Wait. That last one doesn’t seem to fit, right? That’s becaus…

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