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Marie Kondo Still Wants You to Tidy Up
The organizing expert launched her new book on bringing order to the office just as the coronavirus drove millions of people to work from home.
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Marie Kondo Cleaned House. Now She Wants to Fix Your Whole Life
The millennial doyenne of decluttering is poised to build the next lifestyle empire. But will it spark joy?
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Marie Kondo: Achieving Calm Through the Art of Organization
If you ever wanted to get your life together -- or give the appearance of doing so -- look no further than Marie Kondo. Through her bestselling books and popular Netflix series...
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Marie Kondo's Best Advice for Turning Your Home Into a Workspace Without Losing Your Mind
In her new book, Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life, tidying expert Marie Kondo offers her best strategies for creating a productive workspace.
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Life’s Work: An Interview With Marie Kondo
As a student in Japan, Kondo tidied her friends’ apartments. When she started work as a staffing agency sales associate, she organized her clients’ desks.
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Marie Kondo Has Advice for Living and Working at Home in a Pandemic
The decluttering guru is self-quarantining with her husband and daughters, and is still finding things that spark joy.
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Marie Kondo Is Here to Help You Spark Joy, Even While in Quarantine
Tips from the internationally renowned tidying guru on drawing boundaries and finding gratitude during a pandemic.
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How Working From Home Can Spark Joy for You and Your Kids
Thankfully, there is some help on hand from organization expert and mother-of-two Marie Kondo, 34, who has now translated her tidying expertise into a more professional capacity, something that she has fine-tuned after spending weeks working from home herself.
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Marie Kondo Shares Her Best Tips for Working Joyfully from Home — With Kids!
Like the rest of us, Marie Kondo is unexpectedly spending a lot more time at home these days. She’s running her KonMari company from an office she shares with her husband (the one with the better wifi signal), taking care of their two young daughters...
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Marie Kondo Has a New Book on Tidying Up at the Office
In the book — a slim yet efficient guide geared toward white-collar workers with a desk job — Kondo declares that “we can only truly spark joy in our work life..."
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Marie Kondo Knows the Secret to Finding More Joy at Work
Now, the world-renowned organizing expert Marie Kondo is back with Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life — a new book that extends her novel KonMari Method of organizing items by category...
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Marie Kondo Visited My Quarantine Workspace and Gave Me a Lesson on Letting Go
There’s no better motivator to start Marie Kondo-ing your home than learning that Marie Kondo will be visiting your home. Though of course, in the age of the coronavirus...
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Marie Kondo’s New Book Wants You to Rethink How You Work (From Home)
There might be no one more prepared for the unpredictable intersection of spring cleaning and Netflix while self-isolating than Marie Kondo.
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Marie Kondo’s Strategy for Finding Joy at Home During the Coronavirus Quarantine
The coronavirus hasn’t dimmed Marie Kondo’s joy. The tidying guru appeared to be adapting to the quarantine better than most of us...
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Marie Kondo Wants to Tidy Up a Town for New Netflix Show
Marie Kondo first made a name for herself by writing books about decluttering and organizer. As an author and businesswoman, she established her “KonMari Method” and brand...
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How Marie Kondo’s Making WFH Work (While Homeschooling Her Two Kids)
The mom of two made a name for herself streamlining people’s homes worldwide through her bestselling book, "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up," and Netflix series, "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo," but now, she's looking at her own home in a whole new light.
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Marie Kondo Swears by This Ritual for Getting Into Work Mode at Home
As we’re all searching for ways to boost productivity while working from home, it’s time to look to the experts for some advice—and who better to provide wisdom than Marie Kondo.
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Marie Kondo Shares the Life-Changing Magic of “Thank You” Right Now
The “Tidying Up” star and her new Texas sidekick share timely—and sensibly Southern—tips for a better home-office life from their new book
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KonMari’s New Office Supply Collection Is The Social Distancing Distraction I Needed
The Marie-curated collection includes a wooden zen egg ($40), gold-plated office scissors ($25) that only kind of remind me of the shears the Tethered from Us use, and a ceramic travel bowl ($40) described as “the end of sad desk lunches,” which would be great if I had a desk right now.
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How Marie Kondo Declutters During a Pandemic
With promotional events for her new book canceled, the organizational expert finds solace in cooking, shredding documents and — of course — tidying her Los Angeles home.
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Marie Kondo Wants to Sell You Nice Things. What’s Wrong With That?
Her new online store honors her brand’s ethos: that objects can make people happy.
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Spark Joy With Marie Kondo's New Collection of Elegant Lifestyle Products
If you're a fan of Marie Kondo's organizing method—the process of eliminating anything from your home that doesn't spark joy—then we have some good news for you: The popular Japanese organization expert just launched an e-commerce shop at konmari.com.
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Marie Kondo Reveals the Next Big Project for Her KonMari Brand
After touching hearts and households through her Netflix series, Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, and book, the decluttering guru is bringing her wisdom to consumers through a new store, KonMari.
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Marie Kondo Adds an E-Commerce Shop to Her Site
The soft-spoken force behind ‘The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up’ is launching an online boutique of lifestyle products—from soaps to ceramics—that have passed her ‘joy check.’
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The Next Phase of Marie Kondo’s Empire Is Here
Five years after her book became a phenomenon in America, Kondo is launching an e-commerce site to sell products that spark joy.
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This Is Not a Drill: Marie Kondo Is Launching a Store
What happens after you KonMari your home? Once you’ve sent all your non–joy-sparking sweaters off to Goodwill, it’s a question you’re probably asking yourself, and it’s what sparked Marie Kondo’s latest venture: an online shop whose focus goes beyond just organizational tools.
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Why We're Partnering With Marie Kondo
A global company like Rakuten has many partnerships — from sports to tech and beyond — but few are more personally resonant to me than the one we recently announced with Marie Kondo.
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Marie Kondo Sets the Record Straight on Clutter, Creativity, and What's Next
No, she does not want you to throw away all your books. Or every last tchotchke. The author and TV star clears up some myths about her methods—and talks about what's to come.
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The KonMari Method Helped Me Unpack My Grief After Losing My Son
Every time I open a drawer in my son's nursery, I feel a little burst of joy. All the sleepers neatly rolled, the bibs folded and lined up next to each other so I can see the fun...
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Marie Kondo Asked Fans “What’s the Oddest Item You’ve Folded?” and Their Answers Are Great
If you’ve ever seen Marie Kondo fold a pair of yoga pants or a plain T-shirt, you know how easy the tidying maven makes it all look. And, it’s true—if you follow her revolutionary...
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Thanks, Marie Kondo! The Resale Market Is Becoming Bigger Than Fast Fashion
Marie Kondo inspired us to throw away all our non-joyous items, sparking what’s now a booming resale apparel market. So just how big is the industry capitalizing on secondhand goods?
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Is KonMari a Fad? I Can Say This: It Tamed My Anxiety as Much as My Stuff
When I unpack in a hotel room, it goes from clean to chaos in under a minute. My husband affectionately refers to me as a tornado. He can also accurately assess my mental state...
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Why Everyone Is So Obsessed With Marie Kondo
If you spend any kind of time on social media, you’ve probably noticed a certain kind of photo post cluttering up your timeline over the past month. You know the ones: a drawer of...
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Marie Kondo Is Proud of Your Tidying Up, and Wants to Clarify That Part About Books
Marie Kondo has seen your efforts. The Mt. Everest-sized heap of clothes that’s taken over your bed, the drawers of T-shirts freshly folded into compact tents neatly lined upright...
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How Shinto Influenced Marie Kondo’s KonMari Method of Organizing
Have you gone into major organizing mode after tidying expert Marie Kondo’s show premiered on Netflix at the beginning of January? Kondo’s KonMari method of organizing seems to have...
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Listen to Marie Kondo: Tidying Up Could Improve Your Mental Health
Confession: I am 24, live in New York City, and more often than not, I rather spend my Friday nights cleaning my apartment than out at a bar with a cocktail in hand. So I totally...
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This Woman Upended Her Career to Follow Marie Kondo's Tidying Methods — and Now Makes Thousands Per Consultation
Twelve years ago, Patty Morrissey appeared on the Today show for being messy. Then a graduate student at Loyola University in Chicago, she rarely cleaned her room because she was...
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This Is Why People Love Marie Kondo: Deconstructing Marie Kondo's Magic
In the past week, several people have asked me why people love tidying guru Marie Kondo so much. What makes this an incredibly interesting question is that her approach exemplifies...
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Could Marie Kondo Slow Down Fast Fashion?
Netflix sparked joy…as well as social media buzz, memes, and possibly sales trends with its recent debut of Tidying Up With Marie Kondo. Inspired by Kondo’s “KonMari” method for...
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Kondo-ing: A Guru of Organizing Becomes a Verb
Since the reality show “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo” debuted on Netflix earlier this month, the nation has begun riding a new wave of Kondo-mania. In the series, Ms. Kondo, a...
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The 'Marie Kondo effect'? Thrift stores nationwide see an uptick in donations
The hit Netflix series “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo” is inspiring people to keep possessions that "spark joy," and get rid of the rest. So, maybe it's no surprise that the show may also be sparking an increase in thrift store donations around the country.
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Why Stressed-out Parents Should Make Time to See Marie Kondo’s New Show
On Jan. 1, I eagerly settled in for a Netflix binge of Marie Kondo’s adaptation of her international bestseller “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.” The show ostensibly teaches...
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'Tidying Up' Is the Latest Example of Reality TV's Push for Positivity
Does this reality TV show spark joy? If the answer is no, then it's not Netflix's latest feel-good fever, Tidying Up With Marie Kondo. The eight-episode series is set on reinventing
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Marie Kondo, Please Tidy Up Our Digital Lives
Marie Kondo, bestselling author, lifestyle maven, and star of the new show Tidying Up, is a little shocked. She's shocked that the feeling of sparked joy that she urges her acolytes...
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The Tidying Tide: Marie Kondo Effect Hits Sock Drawers and Consignment Stores
Americans woke up on New Year’s Day, bloated in body and soul, and stumbled out of bed to survey their overstuffed post-holiday homes. It’s no accident that was the day Netflix...
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Marie Kondo on Turning Her ‘Life-Changing’ Book Into a Hit Netflix Show
Millions of Americans are turning to a 34-year-old Japanese “organizing consultant” to help de-clutter their homes, and for Marie Kondo, the tidying expert and eponymous star behind...
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America’s Love-hate Relationship With Marie Kondo and Our Clutter
First, let's take a moment to thank the device you're using to read this story, or the table holding up your newspaper. Your computer and phone and furniture work very hard for you.
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Get In, Losers: We’re Going Thrifting
Do you self-identify as a maximalist? Does the name Marie Kondo fill you and your collection of novelty vacation hats with blood-curdling dread? Is your New Year’s resolution to “try more pants styles”?
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I'm a Hoarder, and I think Marie Kondo's Show Can Actually Help People
For years, the thought of anyone coming into my two-bedroom Brooklyn apartment filled me with dread. Every single surface of my place was covered in stuff — from clothes to papers...
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Tidying Up With Marie Kondo Isn’t Really a Makeover Show
About halfway through “The Downsizers,” the third episode of the new Netflix series Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, the 11-year-old Kayci Mersier and her 12-year-old brother, Nolan...
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Tidying Up With Marie Kondo: The Binge-Watch That Will Get You Off the Couch
Hungover and pleasantly aimless on New Year's Day, I scrolled through Netflix looking for something soothing to watch. Not You—even though apparently everyone on my timeline...
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Don’t Mess With Marie: Tidying Up With Author and Netflix Star Marie Kondo
I am flying across America to meet Marie Kondo, a diminutive Japanese Mary Poppins who transforms people’s lives by helping them to tidy their homes. Below, cities blossom and sprawl...
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The 100 Most Influential People: Marie Kondo
I have been following Marie Kondo’s simple, clear rules for a decluttered life since way before they were written. My mother was an early adopter of order, and I the apple from her...
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