HOW DOES KONMARI METHOD CLEANING DIFFER FROM ORDINARY CLEANING After ordinary cleaning, in a couple of days, your home is a mess again. With the KonMari method, you clean ONCE AND FOREVER. The secret is that you get rid of all unnecessary things and arrange the needed ones so that it is very convenient to put them back later. Plus, after a single cleaning by the KonMari method, a SHIFT occurs in your consciousness, and you no longer bring unnecessary things into your home. 7 RULES OF MAGIC CLEANING: 1. Clean by categories. Gather things of one type from all over the house and put them together, for example, on the floor. Kondo suggests starting with clothes, then moving on to books, documents, and so on. 2. The most important thing is to get rid of the unnecessary. To do this, take each item in your hands and ask yourself if it brings you joy. If not, throw it away boldly. 3. Cleaning is a dialogue with things. The Japanese have always treated inanimate objects with respect. Mari suggests, before throwing away an unnecessary thing, to thank it for its excellent service. 4. Forget about storage systems. A non-obvious revelation: storage devices are also useless junk. To avoid increasing their amount, don't buy them. 5. Roll everything into rolls. All things that don't necessarily need to be hung on a rail, Kondo recommends rolling into sushi shape and placing vertically in drawers — like towels in a cabinet under the sink. (Find videos on the Internet of Mari rolling things — it's an art you can watch for hours! — Editor's note.) 6. Hang from dark and warm to light and light. Clothes that look better on a hanger should not be rolled. They require different rules: similar things should hang together (Mari believes that clothes, like people, rest better in the company of related items), and in general, hanging is recommended from left to right, starting with dark warm clothes to light and bright ones. 7. Get rid of papers. Old magazines, training materials, unused notebooks, and countless but completely useless stickers inevitably clutter your interior. Put an end to this by replacing them with convenient notebooks on gadgets — you'll help nature and maintain order. SIDE EFFECTS FROM THE BOOK In her book, Mari shares many fascinating and sometimes just amazing stories about what she found in clients' homes. Also about how The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up changed their lives. Some cured their shopaholism, stopping buying everything every weekend. Some got rid not only of unnecessary things but also unnecessary connections, freeing space and time for what is really important. Some lost extra weight during the major cleaning and determined their clothing style. And some, surrounding themselves only with favorite things, attracted a beloved person into their lives! ABOUT THE BOOK A SENSATION FROM JAPAN. NUMBER 1 BOOK ON AMAZON FOR A YEAR. PUBLISHED IN 42 COUNTRIES WITH A PRINT RUN OF 8,000,000 COPIES. NETFLIX PRODUCED A SERIES ABOUT MARIE KONDO. REVIEW OF THE BOOK "Miss Kondo declares war on clutter in your home and your habit of clutching every trifle and storing pre-revolutionary magazines on shelves." — "Afisha–Gorod"