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

reassess and fine-tune your relationship with your possessions and to create the lifestyle that brings you the most joy. Doesn’t that make tidying up even more fun?
Marie Kondo • Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying
Those who enjoy their tidying marathon win.
Marie Kondo • Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying
‘Do I really have this much stuff?!?’
Marie Kondo • Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying
The basic rule for storing makeup is to eliminate every unnecessary step.’
Marie Kondo • Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying
By intuiting and searching for those connections and storing like things near each other, the gradation will become more obvious. In that sense, storing your possessions is like weaving a beautiful rainbow in your home.
Marie Kondo • Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying
LIFE TRULY BEGINS only after you have put your house in order.
Marie Kondo • Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying
Are you enjoying your tidying festival? Or has tidying itself become your goal, making it seem like a penance so that the very thought of tidying is stressful?
Marie Kondo • Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying
A simple design that puts you at ease, a high degree of functionality that makes life simpler, a sense of rightness, or the recognition that a possession is useful in our daily lives – these, too, indicate joy.
Marie Kondo • Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying
an item has completed its role in our life, then it’s time to thank it and bid it farewell.