Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying

· Ebury Digital · Narrated by Sumalee Montano
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Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Spark Joy by Marie Kondo, read by Sumalee Montano. This edition includes a bonus PDF of reference materials.

Spark Joy is an in-depth, line illustrated, room-by-room guide to decluttering and organising your home. It covers every room in the house from bedrooms and kitchens to bathrooms and living rooms as well as a wide range of items in different categories, including clothes, photographs, paperwork, books, cutlery, cosmetics, shoes, bags, wallets and valuables. Charming line drawings explain how to properly organise drawers, wardrobes, cupboards and cabinets. The illustrations also show Ms Kondo’s unique folding method, clearly showing how to fold anything from shirts, trousers and jackets to skirts, socks and bras.

The secret to Marie Kondo’s unique and simple KonMari tidying method is to focus on what you want to keep, not what you want to get rid of. Ask yourself if something ‘sparks joy’ and suddenly it becomes so much easier to understand if you really need it in your home and your life. When you surround yourself with things you love you will find that your whole life begins to change.

Marie Kondo’s first book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying, presents her unique tidying philosophy and introduces readers to the basics of her KonMari method. It has already transformed the homes and lives of millions of people around the world. Spark Joy is Marie Kondo’s in-depth tidying masterclass, focusing on the detail of how to declutter and organise your home.

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Tobias
December 1, 2024
💥 The book, 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying’, has sparked joy in me. It is one of the top 10 books I would recommend currently. I find it inspiring that Marie Kondo suggests the rather unusual perspective that one only would need to tidy up once. Even though her concept is in line with so called minimalism. I like that Marie does not declare the act of decluttering as the goal, the absence of things as the partly unfortunate term minimalism does. Instead, Marie keeps reminding us throughout her book what she thinks matters most. For her the objective is not refraining as a purpose but feeling more 'joy'. Marie does not read this English audiobook version herself. But I do like it anyway. Thank you Marie Kondo for this wonderful book.
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MARIE KONDO started reading housewives’ magazines from the age of five and loved the order and beauty of the well-organised spaces she saw in them. Then, from the age of 15 she started studying tidying seriously. She started with her own bedroom and then moved onto her siblings’. Today she runs a highly successful business in Tokyo helping clients transform their cluttered homes into spaces of beauty, peace and inspiration.

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