08.04.2019

Storytelling

Marie Kondō: contemporary queen of tidying up

The house reflects the soul of those who live in it. Whether it is messy, full of decorations, family photos, minimal or more traditional, our home is the space that identifies us more than anything else. Our living space is the guardian of our secrets, joys and sorrows, for this reason it is important to establish a good relationship with it.

The house reflects the soul of those who live in it. Whether it is messy, full of decorations, family photos, minimal or more traditional, our home is the space that identifies us more than anything else. Our living space is the guardian of our secrets, joys and sorrows, for this reason it is important to establish a good relationship with it.

Marie Kondō, born in Tokyo in 1984, made home management duties her job by graduating in Sociology from the University of Tokyo. Then she began her work as a "tyding up consultant".

Marie is married and she has two daughters, despite this she managed to juggle between her family and her career carrying on her passion for writing. She become an author of best sellers recognized worldwide and by the Times who named her "one of the 100 most influential people" in 2015.

On January 1st 2018 the Netflix streaming platform released the series "Tyding up with Marie Kondō". In the series consisting of 8 episodes, we see Marie visiting some messy American homes in order to guide family members to a collective reorganization following her method.

Marie is a feminine, kind, classy but we think her strongest point is her great emphaty.

Below we will explain the technique of home reorganization invented by Ms. Kondō, guiding you step by step in order to give you advices on how to re-create a harmoniously settled home.

Marie's method consists in smart reorganization using boxes to store those objects which normally we tend to accumulate in the drawers, she suggests to group them thematically and insists on "getting rid" of those objects and clothes that transmit us bad memories or that do not "make us feel good". She suggests to donate these items to charities projects.

It is a personal and delicate process with which each of us must approach once we made the decision to change our interior and our life.

Selecting the objects to keep according to the emotions they cause in our psyche will allow us to implement an intelligent and therapeutic reorganization for the