![]() ![]() Listen to bestselling audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. Tidying Up With Marie Kondo is streaming on Netflix now. Listen to The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo with a free trial. But it turns out that the magic of tidying up is something that requires-and inspires-a little participation. It’s the spare room where you keep tomorrow’s work tucked away so you can focus on what’s in front of you today. Ramos Your to-do list is an extension of your mind. I thought I'd get something out of watching other people eliminating their messes. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Your To-Do List Your to-do list should spark joy, not dread. By the time I had consumed six of the nine episodes, I had Kondoed my way through a chest of drawers, a random assortment of desk detritus, and.just a lot of stuff. Folding t-shirts per her guidance, I felt calm and focused, thinking, Keep that Oh, haven't seen that in a while Ew. ![]() Sifting through miscellaneous papers, filing some and throwing others out, I identified with one of Kondo's clients, who was doing the same on screen with much agita. "I'm so excited, because I love mess," she tells one client. Her style is to treat a proliferation of possessions as something you can most definitely handle, rather than a source of anxiety, and to regard clutter as, well, fun. "Even my house gets cluttered sometimes," she'll say-a lie of kindness, in all likelihood, given that she writes in The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up that she's been thinking about tidying since she was in middle school. Bright-eyed and patient, she comes from the cheerleading school of self-improvement, rather than being a stern scold. But this sudden urge to tidy didn't have anything to do with a ritualistic new year's cleansing or a sense of chastened guilt. Tidying Up was released on January 1, an aptly optimistic day for a show like this. Crying over regular Jo(e)s whose gigantic life hurdles could be cleared with the cheery help of a semi-celebrity: Nothing could be more suited to the biggest lounge-around day of the year. In Tidying Up, Kondo visits American families and helps them to deal with the burden of their possessions-sorting, eliminating, and arranging them in a way that streamlines not only their stuff, but also their lives. The show features Japanese neatness queen Marie Kondo, whose 2014 book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (it came out in Japan three years earlier), persuaded swathes of readers that the "Japanese art of decluttering and organizing" would heal their souls. Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, though, had the promise of Queer Eye–like simplicity and redemption, exactly what I craved on this black hole of a day. And the time for Christmas movies about improbable princes was over for another year. Sadly, I was clean out of Great British Bake Off episodes. I was not going to pick Bird Box the apocalypse will come soon enough. Not You-even though apparently everyone on my timeline was watching the Penn Badgley thriller. Hungover and pleasantly aimless on New Year's Day, I scrolled through Netflix looking for something soothing to watch. ![]()
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