Marie Kondo's method of home arrangement
Are you familiar with the saying that "Beauty is in the little things"? Once again, we're convinced that it is, when we take a peek into Marie Kondo's tidy world and slow style. It's a charming and unconventional way to bring order into your home, but it's so much more than that - it's a unique way to bring order into your life. So when you're ready for a change, take it slow and do it conMari style.
The idea of minimalism as a concept may seem familiar, but it finds its most vivid reflection in the "Japanese method," which states that a person should get rid of everything unnecessary in their home (and life) at once.
Our home is the place where we want to feel at ease, a place where positive energy and harmony should be in the air. We often think we can achieve this when we surround ourselves with stuff. Actually, we can achieve it when we get rid of possessions, and more precisely, according to Marie Kondo, when we get rid of the things that do not bring us joy. It is important and valuable to keep only those things that make us feel happy, make us feel good.
How to purge your home
Before we begin to cleanse our home (and our minds) we need to imagine what we want our home and our lives to look like. In order to accomplish anything, we need to visualize it.
Then we take specific action - cleansing. Kondo advises that this purging should not be done little by little, day by day, but that we should throw out everything unnecessary at once, starting by collecting unnecessary items of one type. For example, we take out all of our clothes, touch each one, and depending on whether it brings us joy or not, we keep it or throw it away. Marie stresses that it's not just important what memories an item brings us, what's important is whether it brings joy not to the person we once were, but to the person we are now. If an item doesn't give us pleasure, we simply thank it for its services and throw it away.
After clothes, it's the turn of books, and then papers, and all the other things that no longer serve us. Storing things makes us hoarders, says Kondo. It's wrong to think we'll need them, we never will, and even if we do, we can buy new ones that bring us more joy.
How to arrange your home
Once we get rid of anything unnecessary that stops us from moving forward and doesn't bring us positive energy, it's important to tidy up. Marie Kondo advises to fold our clothes in a certain way, in the shape of a perfect rectangle, and place them upright in the wardrobe, this way we will protect them from creasing and we will always see each garment. This is the secret of the vertical stacking technique.
As for the storage of handbags, because most ladies have a wide palette of handbags, we can store them in each other, dividing them by the fabric they are made of - canvas, leather, etc.
Not only our belongings, but our home itself needs rethinking and rearranging. It is important to create our own zen place in our home. No matter if it is in the kitchen, in the living room, in the bedroom, or in a corner. It's a place we need to furnish and decorate so that it brings us joy and gives us positive energy.
Changing habits
Once we've tidied up our home, and in a sense our lives, it's good to create new habits. Otherwise, in a short time, we might find ourselves cluttered with unnecessary things again. As a first step towards this, Kondo advises us to empty our bag every day after we get home. That way we'll let it rest, we won't lose important papers and notes, nor will we store unnecessary ones for years.
And when we buy something new, we should unpack it, because it is only after we unpack it that it becomes truly ours to put in its designated place.
Marie Kondo's method of tidying the home is extremely fresh and positive. Just when one thinks to start acting on it and already feels freer and happier. And the best thing is, as Marie Kondo says, we don't have to stress too much about it. While cleaning our home (and life), we can always stop and rest because "even if you fail, your home will still be there".
Calmly, smoothly and without pressure, do it SLOW!
And remember, a busy life needs its slow moments.
Sofia Slow Life District