Post by Whisker on Oct 25, 2015 8:41:20 GMT -1
A Japanese how-to has Americans tossing out clutter by the bagful
By the time Anna Kate Mackle of Tampa Bay, Fla., got a copy of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (the book by Japanese organizer Marie Kondo that has taken the U.S. by storm), she had given decluttering the college try — a few times. Needless to say, it didn’t take.
But something about Kondo’s deliberate and unique method made Mackle rethink her process. “(My family) had been trying to declutter and would do a little bit at a time, but not ever finish,” says Mackle, the principal harpist for the Florida Orchestra. “So we went through the steps that she talks about in the book, and she talks about going in a specific order.”
But something about Kondo’s deliberate and unique method made Mackle rethink her process. “(My family) had been trying to declutter and would do a little bit at a time, but not ever finish,” says Mackle, the principal harpist for the Florida Orchestra. “So we went through the steps that she talks about in the book, and she talks about going in a specific order.”
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