{"id":134330,"date":"2023-01-31T21:19:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T14:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/marie-kondo-has-finally-realised-what-it-costs-to-be-tidy-and-like-me-has-decided-to-chill-the-hell-out-zoe-williams\/"},"modified":"2023-01-31T21:32:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T14:32:22","slug":"marie-kondo-has-finally-realised-what-it-costs-to-be-tidy-and-like-me-has-decided-to-chill-the-hell-out-zoe-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/marie-kondo-has-finally-realised-what-it-costs-to-be-tidy-and-like-me-has-decided-to-chill-the-hell-out-zoe-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Marie Kondo has finally realised what it costs to be tidy \u2013 and like me, has decided to chill the hell out | Zoe Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nPeople who think they can master chaos don\u2019t have enough children, or dogs, or interestsIt is with some chagrin that I see Marie Kondo making international news with the bombshell that she\u2019s pretty much stopped tidying at home since the birth of her third child: \u201cUp until now, I was a professional tidier, so I did my best to keep my home tidy at all times,\u201d she told the Washington Post. \u201cI have kind of given up on that, in a good way for me. Now I realise what is important to me is enjoying spending time with my children at home.\u201dYou could almost hear the world exhale in relief at this change of heart: Kondo is perhaps the leading evangelist for order and decluttering, author and Netflix poster-woman for the good life. If she can\u2019t make tidying work with three kids around, when it\u2019s her brand, her identity and her life\u2019s work, the rest of us are just fine. It\u2019s like if anti-cigarette guru Allen Carr had started smoking again. On the one hand, shame, but on the other: what a stunning vindication of human frailty. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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