Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying

Don’t throw away things that bring you joy simply because you aren’t using them. You could end up taking all the joy out of your home. Instead, get creative and find ways to utilize those seemingly useless things.

After completely sorting his things and getting rid of twenty bags of stuff, we tackled the bathroom and communal spaces. Then we finished off with a lesson on storage.

By the time you finish, you’ll see something you love everywhere you look.

When we surround ourselves only with things that spark joy and shower them with love, we can transform our home into a space filled with precious artefacts, our very own art museum.

I have discovered three common elements involved in attraction: the actual beauty of the object itself (innate attraction), the amount of love that has been poured into it (acquired attraction), and the amount of history or significance it has accrued (experiential value).

In the end, you’ve succeeded if you know where everything in your house belongs and if the layout feels natural to both you and your things. If your intuition tells you that this might be the place, then, for now at least, it is most certainly right.

The aura your things emit will change depending on their role in your life, on how they are treated and on the characteristics of the materials from which they are made.

the things we need definitely make our lives happier. Therefore, we should treat them as things that bring us joy.

You don’t have to make yourself like someone else’s things. It’s enough just to be able to accept them.