I actually rather like her show on Netflix, although I think her tidying tips range from common sense to innane, however I would love to see her shocked expression viewing the 5,000 plus volumes my bride and I have in our basement library.
Bite Thy Tongue Woman!
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I don’t do Netflix, generally, because of their anti-pro life videos and hiring Obama, but I did do a month’s trial membership to watch the latest “Great British Baking Show.” My wife and I accidentally came on Kondo’s tidying show, and were converted. Our drawers (i.e. the compartments in furniture) are now works of art, with stuff folded vertically and everything visible. I hadn’t heard the comment about only 30 books–we don’t have 5000, but it’s a helluva lot more than 30. (Maybe books are smaller in Japanese.)
Yes. We have too many books.
I will throw away my wife’s books.
Maybe that explains me being in the dog house for 40 straight years.
Bob, are you actually serious? Did this help you?
I ask because I tried listening to her audio book. I got through about 10% of it, and only 10% because it was entirely self-praise about how amazing she was. Couldn’t stand it and it for sure wasn’t worth listening to.
Is her message anything more important than “tidy up”?
Brian, I believe you misinterpret my comment. I don’t impute any philosophical significance to Kondo’s tidying methods. But I do think they are effective in terms of clothes storage. By the way, it may be a Japanese thing to give more importance to tidying, acts of ritual, as in Zen Buddhism, because such a ritualistic OCD approach fills the gaps when one doesn’t believe in a personal God.