News — Decluttering

Late last year, Sweng and I put our hands on New York Times #1 Best-selling guide to de-cluttering, Kondo Marie's book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - The Japanese Art of De-cluttering and Organising.  It is Kondo Marie's zen-like de-cluttering philosophy that intrigued and inspired us to start reading her book. Instead of conventional tidying up methods that give quantitative guidelines (reduce your bins of clothes into half, have X number of good shirts, pants, dress etc), Kondo Marie (or so-called KonMari method focuses on qualitative de-cluttering. "Does this item spark joy in me?" is the only question you need to...