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Marie Kondo's main criterion for keeping stuff is whether it makes you happy to have it. "Does this spark joy?" It has nothing to do with the utility of the ite
by danharaj 7y ago
Marie Kondo's main criterion for keeping stuff is whether it makes you happy to have it. "Does this spark joy?" It has nothing to do with the utility of the items in question.
- Blackstone4 7y agoDoes it spark joy?!? I don't have a toliet brush because I find it joyful...it's a utility...
- rs23296008n1 7y agoBecause I own a toilet brush I feel a tiny amount of joy each time I don't have to use my bare hands to clean the toilet. Your preference may be different and that's ok.
- drak0n1c 7y agoInteresting digression: In Japan there was a recent fad of cleaning toilets with bare hands. A sort of hyper-stoic discipline exercise. It's not as big as western media makes it out to be, the story mainly revolved around a volunteer group that cleans public toilets with their hands. https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/the-tao-of-toilet-cleaning https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/the-tao-o...
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- Tomte 7y agoAnd, surprise, she discusses this exact retort to a simplistic summary of her method in the book. It's fascinating how many people in this thread have never read anything she wrote, take a pithy sentence some other non-reader put forward as an accurate representation of what she stands for, and then "rebuts" her with the most glaringly obvious counter-example.
- danharaj 7y agoI read her books.
- segmondy 7y agowell, hoarders would love her, because all their garbage spark joy!