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Pluvious

(4,311 posts)
Sat Jan 12, 2019, 01:02 PM Jan 2019

The Kondo Effect inspires the Nation !

We are such a goofy species lol

Netflix has people (serenely) bulldozing their closets, and thrift stores are riding the wave


On New Year's Day, Netflix released the series "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo," a minimalist home/life improvement show based on the wildly popular 2014 book "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" and starring

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Needless to say, the whole experience has plunged people down their own personal trash chutes of existential crises. And thrift shops and used book stores are reaping the benefits.



“Are you tied to your material possessions because you have chosen to fill the empty parts in your life with consumerism and thus your soul is scattered among promotional t-shirts and expired tubes of body lotion?”

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And then to systematically and meticulously purge and reorder your household towards that goal.





Netflix is sure one smart company !

I think I need to go clean out my jammed spare room, I'll be back later.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/01/12/entertainment/marie-kondo-konmari-tidying-up-netflix-trnd/index.html
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The Kondo Effect inspires the Nation ! (Original Post) Pluvious Jan 2019 OP
It is a very cathartic experience! madaboutharry Jan 2019 #1
Folding methods? robbob Jan 2019 #2
She folds everything into little squares Takket Jan 2019 #3
The drawers in my dresser look so beautiful. madaboutharry Jan 2019 #4

Takket

(21,575 posts)
3. She folds everything into little squares
Sat Jan 12, 2019, 01:13 PM
Jan 2019

And arranges them neatly in boxes. Looks very nice lol.

madaboutharry

(40,212 posts)
4. The drawers in my dresser look so beautiful.
Sat Jan 12, 2019, 01:21 PM
Jan 2019

I feel bereft that I didn't know about this before. I'm on to books now!

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