If you are one of those people who always ends up living in chaos almost without realizing it, despite trying put order in your life, it may be time to take note of a method that has been a revolution internationally, both for its simplicity and because we can all follow it at home to the letter to achieve total order.
La Japanese Marie Kondo He is the one behind this Konmari Method, and has released the book 'The magic of order', where he explains how to carry out this order and its benefits for our lives in general. This Japanese woman began by tidying up the wardrobes of the whole family and something that was a hobby became her profession. Today he advises many people who need to put their lives in order.
What makes you happier
One of the main premises of this method is stay only with what you feel happy with. That is, sometimes we store things just in case, for when we are at home or to sleep because they are things that we no longer like as before. Either because they have gone out of style or because they are old. So we accumulate many things that we give up just in case but that no longer bring us the same happiness as before. That is why we must gather everything we have and ask ourselves one by one, if that thing, piece of clothing or object makes us happy or is useful to us today. If the answer is no, you have to leave it in the pile to throw away or give away without regrets.
Start with the easiest
In the method we are not only going to have an order when saving things, but also when disposing of what we don't need. He says start with the easiest. Namely, for the clothes, and then continue with objects and with which you can have more doubts, and finally objects that have sentimental value, such as photos or souvenirs. By starting with the easy, we will get used to the idea of how to classify things that we do want and those that we do not want. This way it will be easier for us to finally do it with the most sentimental. So to undo we will also have to do groups of things and go looking at everything we want to keep and what we don't. Apparently, according to the author of the book, if we do it right, in the end we should have a third of the things we had.
Sort by categories
Categories are everything when it comes to ordering. If we want to know how to order everything, we must leave colors or places and sort by categories, so that everything is easier to find. This is so because our brain also classifies everything into categories and it will be easier for us to have a mental map of the category than to sort for example by colors and find a pink shirt in the middle of the pink color. But if we have the shirts separately, we will see the rose right away.
When and how to order
Japanese order guru tells us the best time to order is morning, because our mind is more clear of problems, so that we are more clear about what we want to keep. We must take everything we have and put it in groups by categories in order to start with the classification. Then we will have to order what we have left and get rid of what we do not want.
Vertical storage
Among the author's premises is the basis that the vertical arrangement is much more profitable. If we order the things vertically we will use much more space, so that we will have much more room for those things that we have left.
Avoid noise in storage
Today there are all kinds of things and classifiers to store. We buy so many drawers, dividers and classifiers that instead of making things easier for us, they only generate much more noise in the set, so we finally do not have the feeling of order. Must avoid naming everything, and it is better to choose the simplest forms of storage, such as boxes and drawers.
A place for everything
We always must assign a place for each thing. We will have everything organized in categories, only what we use, and we must assign that specific place to it, to be able to sort everything more easily. So we will always know where to put everything and we will not have to leave things scattered or without a specific place, which generates that uncertainty about where to store it and there the chaos begins, because we no longer have a space for everything. If we mentally have a space for each little thing, the order will remain almost alone, because we will always know almost unconsciously where each thing is.