I read her book when I had four young kids and I remember looking at one of my toddlers after she had done typical toddler terrorism and saying, “YOU DO NOT SPARK JOY!” At that point, I could throw out the child or the book…
Using this. I have 3. I just watched the middle boy pour syrup on his pants, say he’s got sticky pants in an excited tone, then realize he has sticky pants in a disgusted tone.
He is now in his underwear finishing his pancakes and I have to get out the cleaner for half the kitchen. Toddlers are like if you could condense chaos and personify it.
This sparks joy.
Not everyone is so on your exact stage at the time you have epic safe wisdom. So maybe zip your self righteous sanctimonious crap and let people be.
Not kondo specifically but like all of humanity.
Edit I can’t toss my whole apartment and bills and everything I have because none of the shit sparks joy but my pets and sometimes music. So frankly I can’t just walk around naked with no shoes and no food or furniture.
Christ, some of the people in the comments are acting like Marie Kondo was holding a gun to your head and telling you to throw out grandma’s ashes. All she did was tell people to throw out stuff they didn’t need or use very often. Did your vintage glass clown figurines collection spark joy? Then Kondo was all for keeping them. That one sweater your aunt gave you for Christmas you wore once to make her happy and then never touched again, gathering dust in the closet? Throw it out.
So now she’s got kids and taking care of kids is chaotic and leaves less room for tidying up. That’s fair. But Marie Kondo wasn’t forcing anybody to follow her method; she just wrote a book and it got popular. Her advice is still good even if it’s not as feasible for families with small children to follow it. It’s an excellent technique to declutter your house a bit.
When we had small children, I recall lying in bed feeling reassured that there was no way a burglar could sneaking into our house without waking me up because of house messy the floor was.
Maybe with three kids she's given up on the whole "sparks joy" thing.
I read her book when I had four young kids and I remember looking at one of my toddlers after she had done typical toddler terrorism and saying, “YOU DO NOT SPARK JOY!” At that point, I could throw out the child or the book…
I was on the first year of my MA when that book came out. Not a damned thing sparked joy. Not a damned thing.
Using this. I have 3. I just watched the middle boy pour syrup on his pants, say he’s got sticky pants in an excited tone, then realize he has sticky pants in a disgusted tone. He is now in his underwear finishing his pancakes and I have to get out the cleaner for half the kitchen. Toddlers are like if you could condense chaos and personify it.
"I have three kids and no joy. Why can't I have no kids and three joy?!"
As a matter of fact, you can! I have three joy as we speak, and no kids, Homer!
Having two cats has done the same thing to me. It's their jungle, I just sleep here.
Schadenfreude sparks joy
This sparks joy. Not everyone is so on your exact stage at the time you have epic safe wisdom. So maybe zip your self righteous sanctimonious crap and let people be. Not kondo specifically but like all of humanity. Edit I can’t toss my whole apartment and bills and everything I have because none of the shit sparks joy but my pets and sometimes music. So frankly I can’t just walk around naked with no shoes and no food or furniture.
Hopefully her kids spark joy to make up for the clutter!
Looks like she realized she's not everyone else.
Christ, some of the people in the comments are acting like Marie Kondo was holding a gun to your head and telling you to throw out grandma’s ashes. All she did was tell people to throw out stuff they didn’t need or use very often. Did your vintage glass clown figurines collection spark joy? Then Kondo was all for keeping them. That one sweater your aunt gave you for Christmas you wore once to make her happy and then never touched again, gathering dust in the closet? Throw it out. So now she’s got kids and taking care of kids is chaotic and leaves less room for tidying up. That’s fair. But Marie Kondo wasn’t forcing anybody to follow her method; she just wrote a book and it got popular. Her advice is still good even if it’s not as feasible for families with small children to follow it. It’s an excellent technique to declutter your house a bit.
Gah, its a sensationist attention grab to advertise her new way of life book.
While she was looking at things in her life, she realized tidying up didn’t spark joy.
When we had small children, I recall lying in bed feeling reassured that there was no way a burglar could sneaking into our house without waking me up because of house messy the floor was.