{"id":5154,"date":"2016-08-10T09:38:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T14:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/?p=5154"},"modified":"2018-08-21T01:06:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T06:06:17","slug":"spark-joy-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parentingzoo.com\/members\/?p=5154","title":{"rendered":"Spark Joy &#8211; Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B00Y6QG5D0&amp;preview=inline&amp;linkCode=kpe&amp;ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_Jf5Zwb02SFE45&amp;tag=funevents4gir-20\" width=\"336\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> Book Title: <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/20LmUgq\" target=\"_blank\">Spark Joy<\/a> Author: Marie Kondo My rating: 3 stars My review: I read Marie Kondo&#8217;s original book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1QVArtD\" target=\"_blank\">The Lifechanging Magic of Tidying Up<\/a>&#8221; with much interest.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alter48.fr\/air-max-90-femme.html\">air max 90 femme<\/a> I&#8217;m at a stage of life where I&#8217;m wanting to purge and just go minimum. But after too many years of accumulating stuff and clutter, that&#8217;s not an easy task. Enter Marie&#8217;s books.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xavy.fr\/\">nike air max homme<\/a> They&#8217;re helpful &#8211; to some degree. They&#8217;re also somewhat &#8220;cult-like&#8221;. Which is why I can only give this book 3 stars. That said, I&#8217;d recommend this follow up book ahead of the original.   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alter48.fr\/basket-nike-air-max.html\">basket nike air max<\/a> The basic illustrations are helpful and though it&#8217;s equally full of the somewhat &#8220;out there&#8221; notions of talking to and about your things as if they&#8217;re living and have feelings, you can just read over that and get to the meat of this system. Talking of your things like they&#8217;re living beings?  Here&#8217;s an example that popped out as I randomly opened to pages 156-157: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you take a hundred dollar bill and place it on the table, it loses any hint of its former majesty. Instead, it looks very forlorn and embarrassed at being caught off guard.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alter48.fr\/nike-air-presto-femme-bordeaux.html\">nike air presto femme bordeaux<\/a> But as soon as you put it in your wallet, it regains its pride and emanates authority.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fjallravenkankensale.me.uk\/\">Fjallraven Kanken Sale<\/a> &#8230; It is your wallet that willingly embraces money with all its emotional baggage.  To support your wallet in its service as a receptacle, you should set aside a place for it to rest&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> While I don&#8217;t disagree with the notion of everything should have a place and that you should take good care of the things that you own and use, this is taking that a bit too far.  It&#8217;s a shame that these books are so full of this kind of thing because the practical steps in the &#8220;Konmarie&#8221; method are great outside of all of that. So, do I recommend these books?  Yes and No.   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xavy.fr\/nike-air-max-2014.html\">nike air max 2014<\/a> Yes, if you can look beyond the &#8220;make sure to thank your socks for covering your feet&#8221; kind of stuff and can just use the book as a motivation to take steps to keeping things that are truly important to you.  And No because it&#8217;s hard to look beyond that part of the books &#8211; because it&#8217;s woven throughout.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alter48.fr\/air-max-thea-pas-cher.html\">air max thea pas cher<\/a> So, maybe get a copy at the library first and see what you think? If you want to buy you can get them here: <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/20VyRN6\">Spark Joy by Marie Kondo (click)<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1msvXQo\" target=\"_blank\">The Lifechanging Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo (click)<\/a> &nbsp; This post contains affiliate links. 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