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Marie Kondo shares the space that she struggles to organize
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Marie Kondo has gained global admiration for her minimalist approach to organization. However, even Ms. Kondo has one space that she struggles to keep in order. The space in question? Her refrigerator.
The tidying guru has reorganized storage ideas worldwide with a host of best-selling books and two Netflix series to her name. Her KonMari method has become one of the most recognized tidying techniques of our time – but even Marie struggles to maintain order in the frequently used part of her kitchen.
Discussing her kitchen storage ideas exclusively with H&G, Marie Kondo revealed that she struggles to keep her family's refrigerator tidy – but there are ways to stay on top of the space.
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Marie Kondo's fridge organization tips
Your fridge is amongst the most-used appliances in your home – so it is unsurprising that even Marie Kondo finds it hard to organize hers. However, she has three simple steps to maximize success.
1. Ensure everything has a home
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The idea of a permanent 'home' for every object is a staple of KonMari teaching, and the fridge is no exception. 'To keep the fridge tidy, you have to make a rule and ask your family to put the items back where each item belongs,' Marie explains.
Similarly, on the subject of her teaching, Marie adds that finding a permanent home for your possessions is 'one of the best ways to hold yourself accountable' as it encourages you to 'get into the habit of putting [your] items back on a daily basis.'
2. Leave space for new items
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In an Instagram post , Marie continued to share her refrigerator tips – recommending that you leave additional space for leftovers or new food that you may acquire after cleaning.
'I also recommend storing by category to make it easier to sort items and tell at a glance where things are,' Marie explains. This method is also a pillar of the KonMari teaching – and amongst Marie Kondo's 5 top tips for organizing a small kitchen.
3. Know how much food you already have
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Sharing her kitchen ideas in another post , Marie shared that 'the key to keeping a tidy refrigerator is to always be aware of how much food you have.'
This means you can quickly see everything at a glance to prevent yourself from buying the same food at the store. It will also minimize food waste as you can observe best-before dates easily.
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Marie Kondo's number one tip for organizing your refrigerator
Written by Amanda Tarlton
Updated August 7, 2019
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Having an organized refrigerator (you know, the kind with fruits and veggies in pretty reusable produce bags and snacks neatly packaged in pull-out dividers) is a level of adult I have yet to reach. But according to Marie Kondo, it's actually easier than you'd think—and has nothing to do with those perfectly labeled inserts crowding up my Pinterest feed.
Instead, Kondo (of Tidying Up with Marie Kondo fame on Netflix) says it has everything to do with making the most of your space. Here's the trendy organizer's top tip for a more put-together refrigerator along with our own expert's favorite hacks.
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A clear fridge is a happy (and tidy) fridge.
It's simple: Think less is more. That's what Kondo posted on her Instagram story, writing, "Don’t stuff your fridge. Keep it about 30% empty and use the extra space for leftovers and new groceries." After all, the more open space you have, the more room you have to organize and separate your food in a way that makes sense for you.
Why you shouldn't keep your fridge completely full
Not only can an overly full refrigerator look more cluttered and disorganized, but it can also make it easy to forget to use things up before they go bad (a.k.a making it a smelly mess!).
"Keeping your fridge well below capacity (but still well-stocked) helps it stay organized and helps you eat more of the food you actually have and prevent food waste," our kitchen and cooking editor, Cassidy Olsen, explains.
"If you can actually see and access everything you have, you're more likely to eat it. Also, it allows the room for leftovers you might otherwise toss out."
Our expert's tips for an organized refrigerator
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Stackable containers = your organization BFFs.
While Cassidy admits she might be a little extra when it comes to her own fridge ("I'm constantly organizing, cleaning, and trying to reduce the amount of food in my fridge, particularly when I'm feeling anxious"), she also says, "I think everyone could benefit from a chilled-out version of my own approach: know what's in your fridge, keep it clean and organized, and your life is going to be better."
Cassidy also recommends frequently checking for expired food and, to prevent mold and unpleasant odors, keeping a box of baking soda or a fridge deodorizer inside.
And once you have your fridge organized to your liking, leave it alone, says our kitchen and cooking staff writer, Valerie Li.
"Moving food from one part of the fridge to another exposes it to more temperature fluctuations, which decreases its quality while increasing the speed at which it spoils," she advises.
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Kitchen cleaning with Marie Kondo
Kitchen cleaning is a headache for every housewife. After all, you need to sort out the products, and wash the countertop, stove and other surfaces, clean the cabinets and the refrigerator. In other words, all day work. But it turns out that cleaning the kitchen of can be a pleasant experience that takes a maximum of an hour.
Meet Marie Kondo is a charming Japanese woman who, by the age of 30, managed to enter the 100 most influential people in the world according to Time magazine. Her home organization books translated into different languages of the world and sold with a total circulation of more than 8 million copies. Since January 2019, Netflix has launched the reality show Cleaning the Condo, which has surpassed even the most popular cooking programs in the rating.
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According to Marie Kondo's cleaning principles , in the house there is a place only for things that bring joy. Everything else needs to be said goodbye and quickly. After all, cluttered space scatters attention, distracts from what is really important in life. As soon as a person gets rid of the superfluous, he has the strength and inspiration to solve tasks that have long been hanging in the air. Marie Kondo literally turned a lot of apartments and houses upside down! I tell how to declutter the kitchen using the Konmari method and find the desired harmony.
Strategy
When the amount of things makes you feel stuffy, tell yourself “Stop!”, look around and make a decision to change your life this very second. Create a cleaning plan , divide the space into zones and put things in order in each one in turn. From the refrigerator to the lower cereal cabinets, then move on to the shelves with dishes and so on. Set aside 20 minutes a day for each zone. Put a tick next to the completed list items - this way you will feel even more joy from the work done.
Joy
Remember the main principle: we leave only what brings joy. A dusting electric waffle iron, a tureen that has never been in demand, a set of cute impractical bowls - to go! You don't have to throw everything away. Organize something like a garage sale. Surely among your neighbors there are those who will be pleased with these things.
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Practicality
Are you sure you need 4 almost identical whisks, 2 vegetable peelers, 3 corkscrews of different sizes? Get rid of duplicates at least so that they do not take up space.
We are sure you will find someone to give extra.
Benefits
Unusual zest scrapers, a container for fish scales, herb scissors, a curly banana knife... When you see these things on the Web, it's hard to resist buying. In fact, they are useless, but they take up a lot of space in the box. Say goodbye to them in any convenient way.
Health
Throw out all the delay from the refrigerator - there are no options. Forgotten sauces, cheese, greens are usually stale. Do not buy food for the future: save - once, you can eat more varied - two, do not give a chance to multiply bacteria and mold in the refrigerator - three. Transfer cooked food to neat containers, and do not send it to the refrigerator immediately in a saucepan.
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Neighborhood
Good neighborly relations are wonderful only if the neighbors are not moths and bugs. Review grains, spices, pasta, and throw away packages with uninvited guests.
In the future, store bulk products in tightly closed glass jars.
Control
A bag of bags is available in every kitchen. Well, do not eradicate this phenomenon, and that's it! We suggest sorting out and reducing its contents, and then moving it to an ergonomic container. Fold the packages vertically in a row with envelopes, like documents in a folder.
Memory
Grandma's tea set can evoke tender feelings, but what about the fact that half of the cups and saucers are missing for a long time, and the other half is chipped? We encourage you to be creative. You have no idea what you can do with old crockery!
Rationality
Use all available kitchen space. For example, the niche under the sink most often serves as a hiding place for the trash can. While its proper organization will save a lot of space. Use the full height of kitchen cabinets. There are many hanging organizers for attaching to shelves. Use drawer liners.
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System
We want the necessary items to be picked up, but we get an accumulation of dust, grease, dirt.
As a result, you have to wash not only the countertop, but also all these archived jars and coasters. Hide everything you can in lockers, save your time!
Appliances
A modern housewife can have a huge variety of kitchen appliances: food processors, juicers, coffee makers, grills, toasters, waffle makers, sandwich makers. Sort them out, get rid of the broken ones. Then look again at the remaining fixtures. If there are some of them that you use once a year, it might make sense to sell them. Put the necessary devices in lockers, starting from the frequency of their use. Those that you need often, let them be at hand. And those that you use once a month, put away.
Detergents
Cleaning and detergents, sponges, cloths and scrapers should be removed from the sink. Clear all horizontal surfaces as much as possible. In addition, your kitchen will look much more aesthetically pleasing without colorful detergents, and cleaning in the kitchen will become more pleasant.
Collect them in a container and attach it to the cabinet door under the sink.
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Life shouldn't turn into endless cleaning. Organize the space in the kitchen so that you can clean it as quickly as possible. Love yourself and your home! And if you liked the article, please share it with your friends.
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Kondo has earned $8 million from book sales and training courses, and since January 2019 she has been hosting her own show on Netflix. Where did the phenomenon of the KonMari method come from, and what is its meaning.
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Marie Kondo came up with KonMari, her own method of cleaning apartments, which focuses not on simple sorting of things into categories and efficient storage, but on a "spiritual approach" based on Shinto, after which cleaning is done once and maintained until the end life in the house.
According to Kondo, it is necessary to get rid of all unnecessary things if they do not bring joy to their owner, and such cleaning will allow a person to put his thoughts in order and become happier.
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She has written two million-selling KonMari books, consults, trains professionals, and in January 2019 got her own Netflix show teaching American families about her basic cleaning principles. Now Marie Kondo's net worth is estimated at $8 million.
She wrote cleaning
Born in Tokyo, Marie Kondo has been fond of cleaning and organizing since childhood — reading home economics magazines, helping relatives and friends clean the rooms, volunteering at a Shinto shrine to practice cleaning techniques. His college thesis was also on cleaning and was called "How to clean up an apartment from a sociological point of view."
Her passion quickly grew into a small business: at 19years ago, Kondo opened a house cleaning and consulting company.
The convenience and simplicity of her methods spread, and Kondo received bookings six months in advance.
She understood that individual consultations with people about the organization of the order in the house did not scale well. In 2010, in the "How to Write Bestsellers People Will Love for Decades" training course at Kondo Publishing, she offered to write about her KonMari cleaning method and won first place.
The Big To-Do List
One of the judges was Sunmark editor Tomohiro Takahashi, who is known in Japan for publishing bestsellers. He offered to collaborate, and for eight months they worked together to write a book published in Russia called “Magical Cleaning. The Japanese art of putting things in order at home and in life.
Takahashi helped with marketing: Kondo made several TV appearances, including successfully cleaning the house of a famous Japanese comedian, which boosted sales. But it gained its main popularity in March 2011 after the earthquake that caused a large-scale tsunami: many residents thought about the value of their lives and the role of things in it.
While in temporary housing, people began to accumulate extra things in case they were needed - it was difficult and scary to throw them away because of psychological trauma.
The success was also influenced by cultural characteristics: in Japan, small and cramped houses in which things must be neatly ordered. “Japanese neatness is not so much a virtue as a philosophy of life,” writes the New Yorker.
In 2014, the book appeared in the USA and became a bestseller after a review in The New York Times. It was at number one on the NYT bestseller list for about 150 weeks, and by 2019sold 11 million copies in 40 countries.
In 2015, Time named Kondo one of the most influential people in the world. After the publication of the book in the United States, the volume of items handed over to thrift stores increased: on average, the increase was 20–60%, depending on the location and popularity of the store.
Donations to non-profit organizations increased: from November 2014 to February 2015, 15,331 tons of things were donated to the Goodwill Fund in the USA, compared to 13,789tons for the same period of the previous year.
Subsequently, Kondo published other books: in 2016, Spark of Joy. Master class on the art of organization and cleaning in illustrations, and in 2017 — Manga that puts life in order.
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According to Kondo, cleaning should be considered from two sides - spiritual and practical. Every thing in the house should bring joy and be stored in a specially designated place.
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In Magical Tidying, she lists seven basic rules for tidying up.
- The main thing is to get rid of everything unnecessary. If the object does not bring pleasure, it must be thrown away or given away.
- It is necessary to clean by category - collect all things of the same type from all over the house and put them, for example, on the floor. Kondo suggests starting with clothes, then paper things, and so on.
- Storage devices are also unnecessary trash, and you don’t need to buy them so as not to increase the number of unnecessary things.
- Magazines, old educational materials, notepads, stickers and other paper litter the house - you need to get rid of it, replacing it with an electronic notepad in devices.
- Store items in drawers by rolling suitable clothing into tubes, as IKEA does with towels - this will give you a full view and not disturb other things when using.
- Clothes should be hung from dark and warm to bright and light - in this way, according to Marie, clothes will be stored in the company of "related things" and have a better rest.
- Before you throw away an item, you need to thank him for his good service - Marie believes that everything has a soul.
Shows on Netflix
On January 1, 2019, Netflix launched the show Cleaning with Marie Kondo. In it, Kondo visits American families and gradually restores order in their homes.
From this idea, a cultural phenomenon was born: viewers post pictures of their homes after the Kondo cleaning on social media, debate what to throw away and what to keep, and create memes that ridicule KonMari's consumerist minimalism.
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In social networks in the United States has increased the tendency to organize the house, writes Bloomberg. People donate unwanted items to Goodwill and The Salvation Army stores - since the premiere of the series, donations have increased by 40% compared to 2017-2018, and most customers of the stores said they watched Kondo's show on Netflix.
Marie Kondo's Instagram following tripled after the premiere, from 700,000 to 2.2 million within a month.
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Creation of KonMari Media
Certification
In addition to books and television, Kondo earns money by teaching KonMari to other people.
She founded KonMari Media, an agency that connects people with certified consultants from an online database.
Certification requires a course, which can be taken by someone who has read her books and shown a photo of their home cleaned according to KonMari.
For the Love of Tidy
According to Bloomberg, the demand for certification is high: in New York and London, all seats for upcoming seminars are sold out, the cost of the seminar is $2,200 and $2,400 respectively. Each specialist must undergo practice, pass reports and exams. The consultant also pays $500 annually for qualification confirmation.
Consultants are divided into categories from beginners to masters: if the Green category requires 10 sessions with two clients, the Master must serve 50 clients and conduct 500 sessions. Each consultant sets their own prices for services. Now there are only two specialists at the master level, one of which is Sokki Karin, she began her activity in 2014, serving students, the elderly, single men and women.
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Now the cost of one session with Karin is from $75 for a “virtual cleaning” via FaceTime to $550 for a five-hour in-home consultation. She serves one client a day and works six days a week, she says, with an average client booking four to six consultations, but it all depends on the size of the home and the speed of the clients. For some clients, Karin performed 30 sessions.
Goods
On July 24, 2018, Marie Kondo launched a series of exclusive Hikidashi storage and organization boxes. Designed and designed by former Apple packaging designer Cecilia Ferrandon, who joined KonMari in March 2018.
A set of three boxes in four different designs is $89. In addition to the boxes, the set also includes the Konmari Tidying online course, which teaches Kondo how to properly use boxes and fold things.
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Market research firm Freedonia predicts that the home furnishing market will be worth $11.8 billion by 2021. Condo's first product in this market went on sale in September 2018 and was completely sold out.
KonMari: for and against
Most proponents of the KonMari approach feel that it works well because people focus on the positive emotions that things evoke and develop empathy for things and people around them.
According to them, KonMari inspires a change in lifestyle, in which the surrounding things stop distracting and help you focus on important things, relax and be happier.
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However, the method is not universal and does not always work. For example, it is contraindicated for people with mental disorders - for kleptomaniacs, every thing causes joy, which makes KonMari meaningless.
The organization of a person's space should depend on their values: some find joy in clutter, and KonMari only works properly for those who may feel overwhelmed by clutter, according to The Insider.
The publication interviewed several psychologists and doctors who believe that KonMari only works for privileged people whose things in their homes are not a necessity, but a desire.
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Not all people need to get rid of all the unhappy things: a hammer can come in handy unexpectedly once in a few years, and a professor's office, whose office is littered with papers, is actually maximally organized, despite being unkempt.
Daniel Levitin, neuroscientist and author of The Organized Mind
According to him, one of the problems of the method is that KonMari does not distinguish between neatness and organization, and such cleaning in the offices of a police detective or a scientist will not make their life easier.
According to a Vox journalist, Marie Kondo is not selling an effective cleaning method, but a fantasy of an ideal drawer with shirts arranged in a beautiful and orderly rainbow, in which life is clean and the world of a person is completely under his control.
