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Letting go of clutter with The KonMari Method
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As Marie Kondo said, “Life truly begins only after you have put your house in order.”
There are hundreds of different methods you can use to finally begin letting go and decluttering your home.
One of the most famous methods is the KonMari Method, created by the charming Marie Kondo, an organizational-specialist from Japan, who coined spark joy.
You may have even watched her Netflix series, “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo.”
Below, Dana, a travel blogger, documents her experience using the KonMari Method and walks you through each of Kondo’s recommended decluttering processes.
Here are steps to incorporate KonMari into your process, so you can let go of all your clutter.
1. Divide home into zones
Each room in your house or place of living can be broken into zones. Work in a clockwise motion, from one side, all the way around back to the front entrance, one
No matter what you do, someone will always talk about you. Someone will always question your judgment. Someone will always doubt you. So just smile and make choices you can live with.
room at a time until each one has been decluttered.
2. Discarding by category (in order), not location
To make it even easier, sort each zone into categories rather than by location such as a bookshelf or closet. Kondo also suggests working on each of these following categories below, in this order. a. Clothes b. Books c. Papers d. Komono (miscellaneous items, electronics, etc.) e. Mementos
3. Does this “Spark Joy?”
As you go through each item, Kondo tells us to ask ourselves, “Does this spark joy?” Does this item create happiness for you? Is it important enough to keep?
4. Showing gratitude
If an item does not spark joy in you, we are encouraged to take a moment and thank that item for all the happiness it brought to our lives in the past. Then set it aside to be donated or thrown away.
5. Clean your space
Once you have finished going through each item and de-cluttered as much as possible, now is the time to clean
6. Organize your space
Once your space is freshly clean, now you can begin organizing your items. For clothes, Marie Kondo created a folding technique called the KonMari Fold, to use the space of your closet and dressers more efficiently.
7. All in one go
In Japanese, there is a term called ikki ni, meaning “in one go.” If you tidy up in one shot, rather than little by little, you can dramatically change your mindset.
Wow, your home is now freshly cleaned and decluttered. Many who have experienced using the Konmari Method of decluttering say they feel a huge weight has been lifted from their shoulders. We hope you feel better and can enjoy your space to its fullest. - caringtransitions.com
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It was more—much more—than just another rock ‘n’ roll hit.
While “Black and White” became the third single by Three Dog Night to reach the top of the Billboard charts, the tune itself had been created in 1955 as a way to honor the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision to end segregation in America’s public schools.
“Our idea was to celebrate the event,” said Earl Robinson, the co-writer of the classic along with David Arkin, the father of actor Alan Arkin. “We had no idea that it would reach out as it did eventually.”
“Black and White” had been recorded by Pete Seeger in 1956 and Sammy Davis, Jr., a year later. But the song languished in the public consciousness until a Jamaican quintet called Greyhound cut a reggae version (a hit only in the UK) in 1971.
During a European concert tour, members of America’s Three Dog Night heard the Greyhound off ering on a Dutch radio station. Immediately they declared that this could be their next hit 45 on Dunhill Records.
Most pop-music fans were probably unaware that “Black and White” had been created originally from a
diff erent point of view. Both the Three Dog Night and Greyhound versions opened with the lines
The ink is black, the page is white
Together we learn to read and write
The tune was centered on racial equality, yes, but not as much as the original, which featured a diff erent set of lyrics early in the song:
Their robes were black, their heads were white
The schoolhouse doors were closed so tight
Nine judges all set down their names
To end the years and years of shame
Was Robinson discouraged about TDN’s leaving out key lyric elements of his work? Not really.
“They condensed the most communicable parts into a single song number,” he answered. “You might call it a more unifi ed whole.”
During their hit-making years, Three Dog Night placed 21 Top 40 singles on the charts, with “Black and White” being the band’s third Number One disc, after “Mama Told Me (Not to Come)” in 1970 and “Joy to the World” the next year.
Three Dog Night had
taken their name from an Australian expression for the coldest possible night for sheepherders who snuggled with their dogs to keep warm in the chilly nighttimes. The California-based aggregation featured a trio of lead singers—Danny Hutton (who sang lead on “Black and White”), Chuck Negron and Cory Wells. The group gave exposure to such on-the-rise songwriters as Randy Newman, Laura Nyro, Nilsson and Hoyt Axton.
TDN’s “Black and White” arrived near the end of America’s Civil Rights era, and while some of the allimportant original lyrics had been excised, the overall message of the later recording remained strong and clear:
The world is black, the world is white
It turns by day and then by night
A child is black, a child is white,
The whole world looks upon the sight
A beautiful sight
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