Summary of the Book “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing” by Marie Kondo

Everyone want a clean and tidy home. But it is not an easy fit to accomplish. Most times, our rooms gets disorganised minutes, hours or if you are lucky, days after a major clean up. It makes everyone happy to be in a clean and well-organised surroundings. If you live alone you could probably get away with cleaning your house once a month, but that’s not usually the reality. This is the reason that Marie Kondo, a cleaning consultant from Japan wrote her bestselling book, the Life-Changing Magic of tidying up. This book has helped millions of people to know how to tidy their homes and offices easily. The three things make most family houses less than tidy, and require them to be cleaned on a regular basis are pets, elderly people and children. Pets always make a mess, keeping their food particles and litter to a minimum can be very challenging. Elderly people can make a mess too. As we all know old people make a mess, there’s no way around it; we’ll all be there someday. And kids; being who they are, make a lot of mess. In fact, if they do not make a mess, we’ll be worried if they are ok. These three major things make keeping a house clean and tidy very difficult but Marie says keeping your house neat should be an event, and provides an easy way out. If you are not willing to keep things in order, your own home could probably appear to be a place in which a bomb went off currently. With regards to cleaning the home, many human beings can end up overwhelmed and annoyed with just the idea of it. This makes them to shudder at the concept of cleansing and to position it off longer, making the activity even more difficult than it was initially. Again most people don't have quite a piece of extra free time. You do not need to spend a while cleaning up while you'll as a substitute be doing different things. That’s why Marie says that you ought to be nicely put together and get dressed for the occasion of cleansing. Be comfortable, she says, however, take it very seriously. There are things that you can do that will help you clean up your home much faster. According to Marie Kondo, what you first need to do is to declutter as much as possible. This means taking all your stuff and sorting through them. Get rid of the things that you don't really need. If you look around your room, there are just extras that you don't need to be holding onto which are taking up space. With less stuff around the house, it's much easier to take care of everything like you need to. After decluttering, which Marie’s book gives a perfect explanation of how to do it, you now rearrange the items in your house. After which it is now easier to clean up your home. To do this, you can pick a day to do all the harder chores like disinfecting and scrubbing of the lavatories, the scrubbing of the flooring, cleaning the kitchen walls and most possibly emptying out the fridge of the week's scraps. A house that is cluttered and dirty gives depression to it's occupants. Living in a clean environment makes a huge difference in the world in how you feel. Life at home is much easier when you can find things easily and the house looks and smells nice. You should not dread house cleaning, you can get it done by remaining organized. Try to organize your home a bit better than it currently is. If you have a meaningful organizational arrangement and is followed, there won't be as much time dedicated to keeping everything clean. Try to put things away after you get them out. If you are constantly doing this, there is very little chance that you will have to do any major cleaning. This doesn't take much time at all. The book “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” by Marie Kondo is an international bestseller. Her biograpghy in Amazon.com states that her book is the number one on the New York Times bestsellers list and has sold over three million copies. It is also the number one in Amazon in the books category. Due to this book, she was named as one of Time Magazine's Most Influential people in 2015. The book has five chapters with different sections in each chapter, all dealing on cleaning and decluttering your home.