Last month, my daughter moved in with me for a couple of weeks. “I’m going to Marie Kondo your house,” she said. What? “Marie Kondo. She wrote a book on extreme tidying. You have to start with clothes,” says Daughter, poking around in my airing cupboard and wardrobe with distaste. “Look at this. Erk! You can’t wear this! Why five dressing gowns? Oh my God! What’s this? You can’t keep anything that doesn’t ‘spark joy’.”
What crap. There is no way on earth that I am going to study every item in my house and discard it if it doesn’t ‘spark joy’. But, just to be fair, we’ll try it with the dogs’ toys, which are mostly chewed, raggedy and grubby. We hold up each repulsive toy, but they all delight the dogs. So clearly this silly method doesn’t work.
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