This best-selling guide to decluttering your home from Japanese cleaning consultantMarie Kondotakes readers step-by-step through her revolutionaryKonMari Methodfor simplifying, organizing, and storing."The tidiness regimen prescribed by Japanese author Marie Kondo is a great idea. It’s so great that maybe we need to expand its reach."  -The Guardian UKDespite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?  Japanese cleaning consultantMarie Kondotakes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you’ll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever.The KonMari Method, with its revolutionary category-by-category system, leads to lasting results. In fact, none of Kondo’s clients has lapsed (and she still has a three-month waiting list)."[It is] enough to salute Kondo for her recognition of something quietly profound: that mess is often about unhappiness, and that the right kind of tidying can be a kind of psychotherapy for the home as well as for the people in it."-The TimesWith detailed guidance for determining which items in your house “spark joy” (and which don’t), this international bestseller featuring Tokyo’s newest lifestyle phenomenon will help you clear your clutter and enjoy the unique magic of a tidy home — and the calm, motivated mindset it can inspire.