You can go a step further and categorise your clothing into tops, pants, jackets etc.
If it does, then you may put aside and keep, but if it doesn’t, then discard immediately. Lay each item of clothing onto the floor, pick them up one by one and identify if the clothing sparks any joy within you. Using the example of organising your clothes, Kondo suggests that you take every item of clothing out of your drawers and wardrobe, make sure to include the jumpers you’ve left lying on the couch or the dirty laundry basket. Kondo suggests you lay them all out on the floor and analyse whether you are keeping to much or discarding to little. Before you finalise what you are discarding and what you are keeping, gather all items that are part of the same category together and assess them. One of Kondo’s recommendation is that you always categorise your possessions. This is not only the simplest but also the most accurate yardstick by which to judge.” ”The best way to choose what to keep and what to throw away is to take each item in one’s hand and ask: “Does this spark joy?” If it does, keep it. Only once you’ve got rid of every possible thing, can you start to consider where the things you are keeping will go. Reason being, if you start putting things away in drawers etc, then you immediately get distracted from the task at hand discarding, and often find yourself putting things away that should really be discarded. But Kondo stresses the importance of NOT putting things away until you have completely finished discarding everything you do not need. Instinctively, we like to put things away, get them out of sight as part of the tidying process. “The best way to choose what to keep and what to throw away is to take each item in one’s hand and ask: “Does this spark joy?” The idea of her book is to encourage her readers to action a tidying spree as soon as possible, to get it done so you can live a clutter-free life. Kondo’s book focuses on the second type of tidying, the ’special event tidying’. The idea is that once you are done with it, you immediately return it, therefore eliminating the need to do a ‘big tidy’ at the end of the day. This could be anything from a mug to a book to a jumper. Part of daily tidying is the process of using something for a period of time, and then returning it to its home/place. Kondo explains that there are two types of tidying ‘daily tidying’ and special event tidying’. And it’s essential that they are done in this order.
Kondo’s definition of Effective Tidying contains two key actions discarding and deciding where to store things. ”We need to exercise self-control and resist storing our belongings until we have finished identifying what we really want and need to keep.” Get rid of all of the un-essential before you can start truly tidying. This is why Kondo explains that you MUST start your tidying regime by discarding first. What happens when your storage is overloaded? Then you’re faced with a bigger task. When you store things in cupboards, boxes, spare bedrooms, your simply creating an ‘illusion’ that the clutter has been cleared, when in fact, you are delaying the inevitable.
Kondo explains that there is a significant difference between simply putting things away, storing them and discarding. Start off slowly and discard just one item a day – What lovely words to ease the hearts of those who lack confidence in their ability to tidy.” She explains that if you only do a little bit each day, you’ll never finish, you’ll be tidying forever. We’ve all heard the advice suggesting that you can’t tackle a big task all at once, that the best way is to make it a habit and approach it bit by bit.
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How many of us have that cupboard in the spare room full of junk we haven’t used in years? Kondo’s book presents the ‘KonMari Method’ and hopefully, this method will help you to understand how to ‘tidy’ a little better. So many of us feel overwhelmed by the concept of tidying, it’s just too much and instead of facing it, we just ignore it and let it get worse.
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