What’s for supper? WEWLL, as Corrie used to say, if you read Wednesday’s post about menu planning and shopping, you already know most of it! Nevertheless, here is the thrilling conclusion to my story about sale pork and such. Marie Kondo photo by RISE via Flickr ( Creative Commons) Read the rest of my latest for Our Sunday Visitor. Not necessarily because she clearly enjoys her children (although that’s a wonderful thing, and refreshing to hear someone say in public), but because she is courageously demonstrating something so few people understand: that you can change how you act and still be yourself. In other words, it is her children, and spending time with them, that sparks joy for Kondo.Īnd this is why she is my hero. Now I realize what is important to me is enjoying spending time with my children at home,” she said. I have kind of given up on that in a good way for me. “Up until now, I was a professional tidier, so I did my best to keep my home tidy at all times. She is perhaps most famous for her advice to question whether some item in your house “sparks joy,” and if not, to consider discarding it.

She apparently only offers suggestions for how to make yourself more functional and peaceful if the current state of your house is making you unhappy. Kondo never claimed that a rigid minimalism is superior. Still, when the Washington Post recently quoted Kondo as saying she had pretty much given up tidying because she has three kids now, the internet exploded in a unanimous, rather vicious, “Ha-ha!” Now she’s a slob, just like the rest of us! Now she knows better!īut my friends who actually read her book and considered her advice were not at all surprised. If they had actually read her (according to my friends who actually have), they would know that she’s quite gentle, doesn’t demand or even suggest radical shifts that work against your lifestyle, and never claims that her system or ideas are best, or that they work well for everyone in every circumstance. They had all heard about Kondo and her ideas through sloppy, sensationalistic headlines and snarky memes that misrepresented what she actually suggested in her book and shows. None of those folks had read her book, either. Others raged and fumed at Kondo’s insistence that they throw out most of their cherished belongings, get rid of their books, spend all their precious time fussing over trivialities and strive to live in a sterile museum rather than a comfortable home.

When Marie Kondo first made her tasteful splash on the homemaker scene, many of my mom friends swooned at the idea of becoming entirely new people who could whip everything around them into delightful, streamlined, orderly shape. I have never read her book, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” or seen her Netflix shows. As a lifelong untidy person, Marie Kondo is my hero.

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