Top tips for cleaning the house of the new show with Marie Kondo

The method of organization of life, invented by the Japanese housewife and writer Mari Kondo turned tedious cleaning chores in spiritual practice. In his show, which was published this month on Netflix, it helps people not only to get rid of the excess, and create the future and change your life. We collected the best tips from the reality with Marie Kondo. They are suitable even for those who are far from minimalist and hard to part with your favorite things.

What is special KonMari

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This condo offers a clean house is not room by room, and for items categories: clothes, books, documents, miscellaneous items (komono), sentimental items. It is best to go in that order, if there are special circumstances, to break it.

Cleaning by this method will not overdo it and look at the house as a whole, rather than on each room individually. In addition, a gradual movement will prepare you to the latest, most sophisticated category - sentimental items.

Marie Kondo calls include gratitude in all that you do or say. Thank your house before you begin cleaning, and each thing separately, before you get rid of it.

At the beginning of each episode of the show Marie sits on the floor to welcome home. Practice gratitude allows us not just to get rid of items that you do not use, and explore them and understand what you want to take with him to a new life, and that - no.

Here are a few important tips that Marie Kondo gives participants a show about every category of things:

Clothing

- Before considering each thing separately, add up all your clothes on the bed or other surface. It helps to see how grown your wardrobe and what things in it for a long time do not bring you joy.

- Folding thing, strive to form a rectangle. Lay down your sleeves, and then tuck them to the bottom of the product.

- Fold in half short socks, and long - three times. Keep them in a box in an upright position, so you can see all the pairs at once. Do not roll off the socks into a ball - it stretches the rubber band.

- Padded bra roll up in half, hard - keep deployed, folding them into each other.

- Each family member should have their special place in the closet, where are his only belongings. In addition, your life will be more convenient if every man will begin to monitor their shelf.

- If you have a shoe rack, place heavy boots and sneakers on the lower branches, and light sandals and slippers - on top. Thereafter, arrange them by color, so everything was organized.

- for purses, bags, packages, use the method of "bag-in-bag" - adds them to each other.

Books

- to deliver a book, ask yourself whether you want to take it in the future. Will you ever re-read it, there is in it something that will be useful to you in the future. If it is already a lot of years to gather dust on a shelf, but you do it and do not touch it, chances are that you still read it, is extremely small. - Put the books on the shelf by color or size.

Documents

- the table in every leaf in the house that could be found.

- Divide the document into three categories: incomplete (warranty cards, discount coupons, which has not yet expired, and others), important and different.

- thank all the papers that are no longer needed, and get rid of them.

- Put your documents in three boxes for these categories and keep them always just there.

Miscellaneous

- Keep electronics in boxes in order to see everything at once. Wires should remove in individual boxes or bags.

- Keep similar products side by side. Classifies the food in the house for batteries, so you know exactly where everything is in your cabinets or pantry.

- Christmas toys or objects that are stored in the garage, it is better to keep the boxes in such a way that you can clearly see every thing and find it quickly if desired.

Sentimental items

- This category is the most difficult, because it is associated with memorabilia. Respect the things that fill you certain emotions. Thank every detail with which rasstaneshsya.

- loop through all the photos that you have, and ask yourself whether or not they cause joy. If there are similar pictures, ask which one you like more.

- Find out the date when the photos were taken, and organizes them in time. - there are pictures stored in a box or albums that can be placed on a coffee table or bookshelf.

- If the analysis of souvenirs cause you too much emotion, it is necessary to take a break. Take a break - open a window or light the scented candles. In the end, you can continue tomorrow, that's the beauty KonMari method - you must not do everything in one day.

Mari Kondo - Japanese housewife, wrote several bestsellers about cleaning, which have been sold in 30 countries, sold over ten million copies.

His passion for clean Marie turned in a great way to earn a living. While still a student at the Faculty of Sociology at Tokyo Women's Christian University, she wrote a thesis on the topic "How to clean the apartment," and has established itself as a consultant among their peers. Over time, the consulting business began to gain momentum, and condo customers were on the waiting list.

Have you tried cleaning the method KonMari and what advice do you most like?