5 Things The KonMari Method Teaches You

Years ago, there was a young girl who loved organizing her room and keeping things tidy. That young girl was Marie Kondo, who years later, created the famous KonMari method for decluttering and home organization.

If you haven’t heard of the KonMari method before, you are going to be fascinated by what you can learn during the process.

5 Things the KonMari Method Teaches You

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Here are 5 things the KonMari method teaches you:

1. Joy Can Be Powerful, Yet Simple

One of the biggest parts of the KonMari method is to determine if every item inside your home brings you joy. This is for everything big, like your massive fifty-five-inch television, down to the smallest items like the socks you are currently wearing.

Determining the joy that each item brings is rather simple, yet we guarantee that you will be amazed at how powerful that joy is afterwards.

2. Your Emotions Prevent You from Parting with Certain Items

If you find that you are having difficulty determining whether an item brings you joy, you may want to look deeper to your emotional attachment to those items.

There are times when an article of clothing or a long-forgotten about gift means more to you than they should, due to the memories that flow through your brain every time you look at them. The KonMari method will encourage you to look past your emotions and make the decision that is best for the joy that you will feel.

3. Accept Joy in Any Form

You can feel joy in many different forms. That means that while an item may not bring you joy while you are wearing it or using it, that same item may have at least brought you joy when you purchased it or when you received it.

Since you had joy at one time with those items, you can then successfully discard those items using the KonMari method and move forward with your life.

4. Always Choose to Love Less Over Just Liking More

Many people always get a little confused with this one, as they cannot understand what is wrong with liking so many things at once. However, once you have decluttered your home, you will instantly see how nice it is to absolutely love the few things that you have kept.

Imagine loving the few little mementos you have left on a shelf instead of dreading the work that you needed to do in the past to keep that full shelf of items that you thought you loved clean and dust-free. We guarantee that you will soon always choose to love less instead of just liking more.

5. Don’t Listen to Others

Everyone is going to have an opinion over what you should keep and what you should toss, but guess what? They are not you, which means that they do not know which items inside your home will ultimately bring you the most joy.

While someone might love a scarf that you wear, if you think it makes you look terrible, get rid of it. Or better yet, give it to the person who loved it! The same holds true for books, accessories, and everything else inside your home.

You are going to love everything that you learn while using the KonMari method when you are choosing to declutter your home, because you will finally see that home organization can be much easier to do and maintain than you ever thought.