Marie Kondo is No Longer Tidy

Back in 2019, Marie Kondo was everywhere. If not in person, or on TV in the Netflix series Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, the organization expert's name was being used as a verb, meaning to de-clutter and simplify your home and your life. She inspired thousands, maybe millions of people to get rid of anything that didn't spark joy. But that was years ago, and a lot has happened. With a global pandemic, scrambled school, work, and childcare arrangements, economic woes, and political upheaval, people retreated to their homes (or even changed homes) and proceeded to surround themselves with more things, hoping to spark some joy.

Kondo herself has changed, too. She gave birth to her third child in 2021, and has given up on being tidy and organized. Three kids, one of them a new baby, will do that. Kondo even admitted that her home is now messy. But she's already lent her name to a philosophy that will be remembered, if not always followed.

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