Organizing your Home is Now Easier with Marie Kondo

At Espígul, we perfectly understand how stressful it can be to come home after a long day and find chaos: that pile of things out of place that generates anxiety, the feeling of never finding what we need, or simply the discomfort of living in a space that does not transmit peace. We know how important it is to have a home where we can truly rest and recharge, and that’s why we want to share with you a solution that has transformed the lives of many people: the KonMari method by Marie Kondo. In this post, we’ll tell you how you can apply this method to organize your home, the impact that Marie Kondo’s Netflix show has had, and some basic tips to help you keep your home in order.

How to Organize with the Marie Kondo Method

The KonMari method, developed by Marie Kondo, is much more than a simple technique for organizing your home. It’s not about getting rid of things without further ado, but about learning to value what really matters and creating an environment that makes you feel good. So, how do you organize with the Marie Kondo method?

The first step is to truly commit to the organizing process. We know it’s not easy to change habits, but if you do it with the goal of improving your quality of life, the effort is worth it. Marie Kondo suggests organizing by category rather than by room. For example, instead of starting with the living room or bedroom, it is better to group all the clothes in the house and organize them all at once. This way, you can see everything you have in each category and make more conscious decisions about what to keep.

One of the keys to the KonMari method is to ask yourself a simple but powerful question when deciding whether to keep an object: “Does this object make me happy?” If the answer is no, it’s time to let it go.

Marie Kondo on Netflix

Marie Kondo’s name became known worldwide thanks to her series on Netflix, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo! It premiered in January 2019.
In the series, Kondo visits messy homes and helps people not only clean up their spaces, but also rediscover the value of an organized environment. The impact of the program has been enormous. Marie Kondo has become a global figure, and her method has been adopted in homes around the world.

Marie Kondo Basic Rules

We know that it is not always easy to get rid of things, especially when we become attached to objects for their sentimental value or simply out of habit. That’s why, at Espígul, we want to share with you some basic Marie Kondo rules for organizing your home:

1. Commit to tidying up: you have to want to, if the following week, you return to the same routine, we will not achieve it. Therefore, be aware that you want to and it is necessary to make an order at home.
2. Imagine the lifestyle: Marie Kondo invites us to visualize the lifestyle we would like to have after cleaning the house. You have to visualize the order.
3. Throw away what is not needed: Don’t you think about the unnecessary objects that end up accompanying us for a long time and are not used? It’s time to say goodbye!
4. Order by category: think globally. It is a mistake to start with a room, you have to start with the objects that are in the middle and order them by categories. Really, in this way we will know what we need and what we don’t.
5. Follow a correct order: according to the KONMARI method, the correct order to start ordering is: clothes, books, papers and finally, the “komono” (varied and scattered objects that end up causing clutter).
   Ask yourself if the object makes you happy: question whether the object we have really brings us happiness. If not, we know what to do!

As we can see, having the house tidy is more than just an aesthetic reason. As Marie Kondo says, order influences both physical and emotional well-being. Thus, tidying up the house is a first step to start with a different life.