Marie Kondo Quotes

Effective tidying involves only three essential actions. All you need to do is take the time to examine every item you own, decide whether or not you want to keep it, then choose where to put what you keep. Designate a place for each thing.

De-cluttering can be overwhelming, so start with that one small thing. Clean out your junk drawers. It can lead to so many more beautiful things. Start there, and you'll find yourself cleaning the whole rest of the house.

I get such a buzz out of cleaning closets.

Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.

Quite a few books about decluttering are published in a year.

My partner and I weed through our bookshelves and throw stuff out regularly.

There's no need to let your family know the details of what you throw out or donate. You can leave communal spaces to the end. The first step is to confront your own stuff.

Once you learn to choose your belongings properly, you will be left with only the amount that fits perfectly in the space you own.

I'm enjoying simplifying things.

My house is completely organized from my closets to my drawers.

My head was full of tidying tips, and I had complete, albeit misguided, confidence that I could tidy any place.

If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move.

Sunday is the day I do my laundry and clean. I'm always trying to get rid of stuff. Truthfully? I have a housekeeper that comes once a month, and I tend not to make things too messy for her. But I do have clothes everywhere.

We keep the house really clean. Organized and neat is better for me.

I am really bad with cleaning my closet.

People talk about body cleanses like there's no tomorrow - what about apartment cleanses?

I'm not racing through my division - I'm cleaning it out.

I'm a very good clearer-upper!

I love cleaning and hanging things up!

Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?

Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks, was previously wanted, once useful. She feels the sun scorching the back of her neck. The heat is at its worst now, the rains still a few months away. The task satisfies her. It passes the time.

A lot of people agree that tidying is connected to how we live, and even though, outside of Japan, houses might be bigger, people have more things than they need.

I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office.

There's a moment in one's life when you should really be de-accessorizing instead of making more collections.

Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best - I suggest to you - move in the opposite direction.