Tidy home, tidy mind – 7 surprising lessons I learned from reading Marie Kondo’s 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up'

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I think I would be hard-pressed to find someone who didn't know about Marie Kondo and her powers of home organizing. She’s become iconic – and for good reason – synonymous with living with less, and keeping an organized and tidy home.

So, when my partner’s parents returned home from a trip to New York with a secondhand copy of The life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, I was intrigued to see where it all began.