Happy Holidays! You’ve unwrapped all your gifts and you are surrounded by lots of new stuff! Now what? In these wonderfully convenient times we live in it is very easy to accumulate lots of stuff. Face it! We are all
Happy Holidays! You’ve unwrapped all your gifts and you are surrounded by lots of new stuff! Now what?
In these wonderfully convenient times we live in it is very easy to accumulate lots of stuff. Face it! We are all stuff magnets to varying degrees! And now, thanks to the holiday season, we have more stuff!
For many of us, it can be hard to begin to take on the seemingly impossible task of deciding what to let go of, or even if you want to, which can easily grow into a pile of “I’ll get to this sometime” which never seems to come. Just seeing it or even thinking about it can bring stress, or worse … those feelings of inadequacy for not doing what the mythical “responsible adult” would do.
Enter Marie Kondo’s three-million sold book, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing.” This small book (5 x 7 inches) which has no illustrations, no graphs, no charts, no worksheets, and is only text, has helped millions to free themselves of the burden of stuff that never seems to go away.
Being from Japan and based in efficient Japanese philosophy, her simple methods have helped people to clear the clutter for good! The best part is the changes in their personal life have been positively and utterly profound. What better time of year to start this “magic” than the New Year? What a great New Year’s resolution! Freeing ourselves from our clutter! How many times have we said that?
With this book we can fulfill that resolution, be free of our clutter, and make room in our homes and our lives for the one important thing that really matters — our peace of mind! Until “next year (week)” …
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Ed and Cynthia Justus are owners of The Bookstore in Hanapepe.
