![]() The Pros and Cons of Reading on a Kindle.Her signature "KonMari" method basically boils down to this: To get organized, narrow down your belongings by category, then get rid of anything that does not "spark joy." The Japanese organizing consultant has helped Americans clean up their lives for years and is best known for her 2011 book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. Kondo's minimize-your-life credos is nothing new. Considering I tend to shove things into my closet to get the doors to close, the idea of watching eight episodes of a show about decluttering was very ( very) low on my priority list. So when I saw both the praise and the backlash surrounding organizing guru Marie Kondo's Tidying Up, I already knew it likely wasn't something I'd watch. I keep my home clean, but I've accepted and understand the method to my own disorganized madness. And I'm fine with that: A co-worker once told me that a slightly messy home is a sign of a life well-lived. Arianna Davis.Īs you can probably guess, I am admittedly not the most organized person, much to the dismay of my meticulously tidy mother (sorry, Mom). yes, there are also many magazines in my home. You can see one of four book towers in my apartment here, and I’m currently in the process of purchasing a fifth. ![]() It's now the perfect place for me to put down.the book I read every night before bed. In fact, the sheer number I own is so large that I recently moved a heap next to my bed to serve as a secondary nightstand. And each time my family has helped me move to a new apartment, they've moaned about the amount of boxes I pack just for books, begging me to get rid of some. When my friends come over, they often trip over my novels. Exhibit A can be be seen below, on the left: They're a bookworm's dream and hold your tomes in a neatly stacked form. ![]() living), I house my reads in multiple invisible spine book towers that I bought on Amazon. Since I have no space for an official book case (ah, the woes of N.Y.C. But what truly brings me joy is the sight of my books-four towering stacks of them, to be exact. When I walk into my apartment at the end of a long day of work, I feel warm, greeted by tall windows (a rarity in New York city), yellow and gray decor, and my stuffed Harry Potter owl, Hedwig. When the internet started buzzing about organizing expert Marie Kondo's new Netflix show, Tidying Upand her rule that people should limit their book collections to no more than 30, I started thinking about my own book clutter.
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