The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

I was waiting on line at the Harvard Coop, and The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing was on display nearby. No wonder the wait list at the library is so long. First, the book is pleasing to the eye and the touch. Second, who isn’t interested in being organized. Third, a friend quoted from it.
The key to The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing is if an object brings you joy, keep it otherwise toss it. If I wanted to further summarize The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, let go of the past, thank each item for doing whatever useful function it did and don’t hold on to something out of fear for the future.
There are more strategies that sound like a good idea, but I didn’t follow because I don’t want to. If The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing has any flaws, it is the author believing that we have enough imagination to visualize such instruction as how she folds things and places them in drawers vertically. My mind just bats the concept right out of my head like a volleyball over a net. Perhaps I’ll need to make a side trip to Google.