The organization of storage in the house is the key to success and cleanliness in the house. Today we will talk about the main tips for organizing a house from a Japanese specialist in restoring order in the house – Marie Kondo. She is known all over the world as a consultant on cleanliness and organization, as well as as a writer whose books on the order in the house are sold in million circulations.
Today we will study some things from the book “Magic cleaning. Japanese art of restoring order at home and in life, which is successfully sold around the world (it has become a bestseller of Europe and Japan last year). Moreover, this year, Marie Condo was added to the list of the most influential people in the world.
The whole principle of Marie Condo is that you need to start with waste. In other words, the first thing is to throw away everything that is not necessary. Condo recommends taking each item in his hands and ask himself: “Does he bring me joy?”. It sounds a little strange, but everyone who tried to do this, claim that the method is chic.
Condo also advocates not to restore neat order in the room, but sort everything by categories. Start with clothes to understand her idea of sorting. Clothing can be located throughout the house, but let it be sorted by categories (fur coats in one place, panties in another – they can be in one dressing room or in different cabinets throughout the house, but let everything be laid out into categories and baskets or shelves ). The same method must be observed when organizing books.
Start categorizing things from clothes and gradually switch to personal and sentimental things, which are most difficult to get rid of (do not forget to ask yourself whether the thing brings you joy).
Some people say that at first the condo cleaning method seems ruthless and daring (especially the moment that concerns the throwing of things), but after a while you understand that the room remains clean for a long time after such a reorganization. Even children’s rooms, decorated according to this plan, remain clean.
Before cleaning, put somewhere bags in which you will put unnecessary (not delighting you) things. Send into one bag those things that you definitely need to be thrown away, because you will not sacrifice them, nor sell them (for example, old panties), and add things that you can donate (clothes, books, etc. in the rest of the bags. p.), give to friends (old children’s things and t. p.), hand over for processing (waste paper, metal products, antique things, etc. p.) or throw it into urns with special waste (light bulbs, batteries, thermometers, etc. p.).
Condo gives a lot of useful tips in his book. N our opinion, one of the good ideas is the advice on how to say goodbye to papers and newspapers. All people have a lot of newspapers, books, magazines that they are sorry to throw away. Condo actively convinces that they are not needed. They can be handed over as waste paper, so that they are processed and turned into new things. Old books and magazines can be taken to the libraries or donate somewhere else and. p. If there is a need to store old papers (accounts that can still be useful, as well as important documents), then this must be done in one place for this place.