Marie Kondo

Marie Kondo has three kids now, so tidy's gone out the door. But we still have too much stuff.

Try taking what you like from their ideas and leave the rest to the donation bin. It is not too much to say that our stuff occupies a place in our homes somewhere between family and pets. She’s just trying to make it work like the rest of us. [annoying](https://www.thecut.com/2015/05/de-cluttering-is-the-new-juice-cleanse-annoying.html), [propaganda](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/style/lets-celebrate-the-art-of-clutter.html) and [triggering](https://www.thecut.com/2015/02/alas-i-will-never-actually-de-clutter-my-house.html). [death cleaning](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/americans-are-pack-rats-swedes-have-the-solution-death-cleaning/2017/10/12/248dcf82-aebe-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.9d89f43ef051&itid=lk_inline_manual_19), which is a way of taking responsibility for your mess before shuffling off this mortal coil. The choice is, and has always been, yours to make. [stood dumbfounded](https://medium.com/mel-magazine/the-art-of-swedish-death-cleaning-and-other-lessons-from-cleaning-out-my-mothers-house-a5f98b08619c) at her decades’ worth of clutter bulging from every closet and shelf. We collect stuff with an alarming speed in spectacular quantities and have an almost spiritual, or at least irrationally devoted, relationship to it. [some people in a tizzy](https://www.npr.org/2023/01/29/1152149068/marie-kondo-revealed-shes-kind-of-given-up-on-being-so-tidy-people-freaked-out). Remember what we’re up in arms about here, folks: Three old vacuum cleaners, ancient magazines, a box of rusty tools your dad gave you and plates your mother thought had value. But Kondo asked us only to examine our relationship to things. But the news of Kondo’s repositioning has

SINGAPORE — Since having her third child, decluttering queen Marie Kondo has let tidying take a back seat — and netizens are finally finding her relatable.

As one Twitter user pointed out: "She's specifically following her own advice. "She liked to help organise. That's ittttt." Advertisement

Marie Kondo is not finding joy in cleaning anymore. Instead, it's found in raising her three kids. The Queen of Clean gave birth to her third kiddo in 2021 ...

Now I realize what is important to me is enjoying spending time with my children at home." The Queen of Clean gave birth to her third kiddo in 2021 and admits to the “Washington Post,” that "My home is messy, but the way I am spending my time is the right way for me at this time at this stage of my life." Instead, it’s found in raising her three kids.

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In a culture that’s inherently suspicious of the unknown, change is often misread either as an aberration or as a tacit acknowledgment that we’d underperformed until that point. Now that her children are what matter most, tidying is the clutter that she needs to siphon off. “The way I am spending my time is the right way for me at this time at this stage of my life,” she said at a recent media webinar. Among the most widely shared of these came from the filmmaker Sarah Polley, who [moaned](https://twitter.com/priya_ebooks/status/1619969271437852673?s=20&t=ipAP-mZgWviybKni4CIR5A): “Where is the official apology to those of us who she influenced to make our clothes into little envelopes when we HAD three children!” The quest for a perfect home was always pointless! Superficially, this may have looked like a callous rejection of hard effort in favor of a shiny new hobby. For about a year, I was an insufferably passionate runner. The uncomfortable adjustment de jour comes courtesy of Marie Kondo, the organization expert whose 2011 book “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” and 2019 Netflix show “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo” successfully persuaded a mass audience that their fastest route to contentment was via chucking out all their lesser-loved junk. Twitter swaps the “Home” and “Latest” tabs for “For you” and “Following”? Kondo’s success was built on tidying, and encouraging us to tidy in turn. Bored of the nomadic life? [@HolstaT](https://twitter.com/holstat?lang=en).

Professional tidier Marie Kondo recently admitted that she's not so neat anymore and is okay with a messier home.

[Marie Kondo’s Kurashi at Home](https://bookshop.org/a/17156/9781984860781), she writes about the Japanese concept kurashi, or “way of life.” At the heart of her writing remains joy. [The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing](https://bookshop.org/a/17156/9781607747307). [she said](https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2023/01/26/marie-kondo-kurashi-inner-calm/) during a webinar and virtual tea ceremony.

Yes, Marie Kondo gave up on tidying up. Remember that true joy in life is all about balance, so it's best for you to figure out what works for you.

[Twitter user](https://twitter.com/Itscakejumper/status/1620377260124696578). [Feel the urge to 'quiet quit'? "Being organized and clean is a value," she says. Either way, Marcolin appreciates if some feel the bar is a little lower now. Mental health experts weigh in.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2021/08/16/students-mental-health-time-get-rid-homework-schools/5536050001/) And [another](https://twitter.com/publicroad/status/1620124790999883776): "The screenshot of that Marie Kondo headline about 'giving up' tidying after having three kids has taken over the mom internet like nothing I've ever seen." "When people are coming over, nobody really cares how your house looks," Marcolin adds. And I think people are very hard on themselves when they literally can't do everything. Focus on balance over perfection. "It's just impossible to do everything," Galanti adds, "so something has to give. Now I realize what is important to me is enjoying spending time with my children at home," she recently said during a webinar and virtual tea ceremony But with kids running around or other similar obligations, that's not always possible.

LOS ANGELES—Admitting that she'd made some major lifestyle changes since developing her famous KonMari method, a relaxed Marie Kondo told reporters Tuesday ...

“It was difficult, but once I had my children, I began to find it impossible to remove, clean, and sanitize the unending stream of excrement that bubbled up out of my toilets and filled my house to the point of collapse. “The truth is, while I used to be very hard on myself about keeping everything clean, I’m now able to find peace living my life half-submerged in a large, fetid pool of human waste,” said Kondo, who added that while things like tidiness, organization, and minimalism used to spark joy for her, she now felt that same warmth from wading, floating, and swimming in the many gallons of untreated urine and feces that currently filled her home. LOS ANGELES—Admitting that she’d made some major lifestyle changes since developing her famous KonMari method, a relaxed Marie Kondo told reporters Tuesday that she was now perfectly happy living in waist-high sewage.

Decluttering guru Marie Kondo has announced she has 'kind of given up' on tidying her home since the birth of her third child.

Banish Clutter Forever's Toothbrush Principle is a simple approach to decluttering your home – whether you live in a huge house or a small flat. Her strategies include where to start to tame the chaos, which habits deserve your focus and will make the most impact, and practical tips you can implement immediately to declutter a huge amount of stuff with minimal drama. Manage your home with Lynsey Crombie, Instagram sensation and TV's Queen of Clean, as she creates a system of speed-cleaning challenges, organisational habits and natural cleaners. White explains, clearly and without delusions, what it takes to get – and keep – your home under control. If you need to revolutionise your home routine, try the popular The Organised Mum Method (TOMM). 'But after I had my own, particularly when my daughters were one or two years old, and they were completely out of control and would overturn the shelves and make a mess, that's when I realised it is really very difficult.'

Even as an icon of home organization, Marie Kondo is just like any other parent struggling to keep their house clean. Learn about what's sparking joy for ...

[People](https://people.com/home/marie-kondo-opens-up-about-her-path-to-finding-joy-i-gave-up-on-perfectionism-a-while-ago/) in a past interview. "My home is messy, but the way I am spending my time is the right way for me at this time at this stage of my life,” she added. “I used to be a perfectionist, but it became difficult to maintain that standard after having my children. The clutter-cleaner is open and honest in her new book about how you likely won’t get to everything on your tidying to-do list during these busy times, but you can still foster joy by creating a rhythm and indulging in what makes you happy. Now I realize what is important to me is enjoying spending time with my children at home,” she said during a webinar attended by In fact, even one of the world’s biggest icons of organization, Marie Kondo, has recently ditched her dreams of a tidy home with three kids.

Kondo is now a mother of three small children – which, when you think about it, explains a lot about her recent revelation.

Like a true Konvert, I just went into my bathroom just now and had a very different chat with my own bath: “It’s amazing how certain people seem to treat you like you are a laundry basket and you are full of dirty clothes that certain people think will end up being washed and dried and put away like some kind of magic trick that is nothing to do with them. She wanted to sort through my wardrobe but I steered her away from that disaster zone to a particularly disorganised press in my house. I tend to keep a close eye on Kondo, being somewhat invested ever since she visited my home in 2016 to sort out a particularly messy “cupboard of doom” full of miscellaneous rubbish. Clearly, what Kondo was really saying is “there is NO END to the mess the feckers make, IT IS AN INFINITY OF MESS so what is the point any more of any of it? You could have knocked me down with a feather duster, that’s how shocked I was to hear that Kondo had “kind of” given up keeping on top of her household mess. “I have kind of given up on that in a good way for me.”

Marie Kondo, the inventor of the world-famous KonMari Method for tidying and decluttering homes, says she's prioritizing time with her kids over managing ...

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