the weird sanctification of books in the actual physical sense has always bothered me anyway ngl, like hey, if you prefer reading physical books then more power to you that's not the issue
Also people have criticized her appearance (shes too clean), her personality (shes too nice), her philosophy (she hates books) and her methodology (shes unrealistic)
🐅 its harry
: yeah totally! and what people seem to miss is she has no like....limit on how much stuff you can have. just that you have stuff you actually need or truly want
it's not like 'omg get rid of everything this is Bad and you are Bad for having so many books/Christmas stuff/whatever' just 'consider if this is something you want to make a part of your life going forward'
I’ve literally had to throw books away cuz I couldn’t take them to a thrift shop and I didn’t have space for them like people Need To Chill with the sanctity of books
Like, i personally found her book helpful because i am someone who like...ascribes needless emotional tags or personality to objects and its hard for me ro get rid of them. ..her method is good for people who want to or are in a position to get rid of things with an emotional angle
question are all these kondo critical articles written by dudes bc it strikes me that her method has a lot of feminine-associated philosophy if that makes sense
Like the one really vitriolic hater who wrote a big article criticizing her, like, talked about how silly her greeting the house thing was and like....it just felt like a weird, besides the point thing to arrack?
and feels kind of ignorant of the like, cultural association with animism in Japanese religion. (not that she's doing it as a religious thing, but there's a fairly logical cultural root to it)
Basically, my point was that "sparks joy" is too easy a concept for a hoarder to massage or make meaningless because they have emotional attachments to everything they own
I was watching Tidying Up on netflix and she's so cute and charming and encourages people to consider what they really value and enjoy when deciding what to keep. She never tells anyone, "this is your book quota" or "you need to get rid of that dress that doesn't fit"
Like, great if you want to accumulate them, but as someone with a big Book Problem that having a Kindle actually managed to solve... stop fetishizing books as objects, people!
I like Marie Kondo and while I do think the KonMari method can be really problematic for people who personify objects and attribute emotions to them, that’s not a majority of people
(I’ve gotten rid of a lot of books and I need to get rid of... so many more. Seriously, save stuff that’s meaningful to you, but... use the library and don’t hang on to everything.)
I don't give a fuck if it doesn't work for you don't shit on the person who developed a completely nonoffensive method just because it doesn't apply to you
in fairness i feel like when this kind of thing comes round it does initially always fget presented as like tHIS IS IT!!! THE THING THAT WILL FIX YOUR LIFE
if it doesn't work for you, nobody is making you find an approach that does (probably nobody is, anyway), and if you still want or need an approach that does, you can try something else.
For me a lot of the people I’ve seen have just only heard what others are saying about her show and haven’t watched it or read anything by her so they’re just like
ive never watched her show but i ASSUME this ignorant woman literally wants to throw everything in the garbage that doesnt make me twitter with delight no matter its use
man it's so frustrating bc like. her method isn't for me. it's really not (i'm more of an ufyh kind of person). but i've watched the show and enjoyed it because she's so warm and so gentle and so genuinely kind
can write an essay on how capitalism pretty much prey on people that tend to have problems and hoarding.which isn't cleaning stuff to swedish death metal. I know, I was kinda disappointed too.you can still play swedish death metal over the cleaning, I mean there isn't a rule for that.