Unknowingly, our household abides by the Konmari method, granted it’s similar to moving house. for people that mix miscellaneous or sentimental items, or don’t finish clothes before starting the next batch can risk ending up with a messier home.
However, if you don’t follow it through, there can be frustrating outcomes. It has discipline, it requires commitment, and it has predictable results. Just this week I bought a duplicate bottle of soy, and hazelnut spread because I didn’t check through the pantry. Instead of buying the same sorts of clothing, books or food items, with greater accessibility to remaining items, the user can assess where everything is and avoid buying redundant stuff. Including featuring sentimental items that may be buried behind other stuff Increase accessibility of remaining items Means remaining items are functional, useable as well as being a joy to use or wear Seeing bags and bags of unused stuff leaving the house can be quite fulfilling This can be a painful process, particularly at the start when all the items are taken out of the cupboard, but there are several benefits including: If it doesn’t spark joy, then the item is given gratitude and discarded. The subjects look at every item individually and ask not only if the item is relevant and useful but if it ‘sparks joy’. The sentimental items are saved for the end as they can take more time to think through. Starting with clothes and books, and then to miscellaneous means that the straightforward items are dealt with first. This process involves many decisions about whether to keep or discard many items individually. Marie’s method starts with Clothes, Books, Papers, Komono (Miscellaneous items) and then ending at Sentimental items. Subjects think about what an uncluttered life would feel like, where they can actually find things in the house Every item is sorted individually before being placed back in. It’s a great time to release the show at the start of the year, when many are contemplating a tidy up.Īlthough this is a mindset issue, the subjects follow through on this by taking everything out of the cupboard and laying items on the bed, or on the benchtop. The show links clutter with anxiety, and goes through how each family follows the method, declutter and transforms their life. There is the young family that can’t keep up, the widowed lady building a new future, and the expecting couple needing organised nesting. The method in the Netflix show is adopted to different family types in each episode. I’ve had a chance to think about what works, and what doesn’t, and how a designer might push it further.
It’s been a year now since the show started. Some are keen followers and are throwing everything out that doesn’t ‘spark joy’, whilst others are dismayed and frustrated with half their stuff laid out of cupboards and on beds ready to be sorted.Īs the weakest link in the household for tidying up, I was requested to binge watch all episodes and report on what we needed to change in our home. Its contributed to an overload of charity bins worldwide, and has drawn out a range of responses. It gained worldwide attention with many adopters motivated to tidy up at the start of the year.
At the start of 2019 there was a new Netflix show streamed called Marie Kondo’s method for tidying up.
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