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According to the Marie Kondo method, putting the house in order helps to put order in one’s life. The disorder of objects is the reflection of a certain internal chaos and, at the same time, creates an external labyrinth that generates a feeling of bewilderment.
Marie Kondo is the author of the book “The Magic of Order,” and is considered a guru in the field so much that she was included in Forbes magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
One of the most important concepts of the Marie Kondo method is the so-called “rebound effect”. You have when people want to sort a certain space by selecting everything they don’t use, often organizing it in an orderly way.
Immediately after you look for a free corner of the house to store there everything that is not used. In this way, cabinets, drawers and other spaces become overflowing with objects. In some cases you buy new furniture to store you the useless stuff.
What happens is that the spaces are saturated: the Marie Kondo method teaches instead that organizing is not to preserve. When this happens, everything repeats itself again: since the free spaces are all full, the new objects will be stored in a disorderly way. That is the bounce effect.
Learn to get rid of what you don’t need
For many of us it is difficult to get rid of objects, albeit useless. However, the secret of the order is precisely in overcoming this problem. Learn to throw away without compassion everything that is not needed. Obviously, to “twrow away” we also mean donating.
According to Marie Kondo, we only have to keep the objects that make us happy. Each object has an emotional meaning. Others, on the other hand, are indifferent and should not remain in our homes: their only function is to obstruct.
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