People who used Marie Kondo's tidying method years ago are happy they did

Joe Pinsker, writing for The Atlantic, interviewed more than a dozen people who used the decluttering process described in Marie Kondo's best-selling book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. He found that most of the people don't regret tossing their belongings and that their places are still tidy years after tossing everything that didn't spark joy.

Even with all this throwing out, people have had very few regrets. Most told me they now dont miss a thing, even stuff that they hesitated to discard. Some recalled isolated instances of (usually fleeting) second-guessing. Velma Gentzsch, a 40-year-old in St. Louis who KonMari-ed in 2017, says she wishes she still had the pair of brown leather boots she parted with. I loved them, but they were half a size too big [but] its not a huge deal, she says.

Christina Refford, whose fourth KonMari-versary is this year, remembers twice going to her bookshelfonce for a stack of cooking magazines, once for Susan Faludis Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Womenonly to realize that shed tossed out what she was looking for. She wasnt too bothered. Almost anything I wouldve gotten rid of can be found somewhere else, Refford says.

Image: Interior Design/Shutterstock Read the rest