NBC Announces new Reality Show

Tidy Up with  new TV show

NBC has commissioned a sitcom inspired by New York Times-bestselling self-help book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing.

If you haven’t heard of it, is a guide to thoroughly cleaning one’s home from Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo, a.k.a. “The Beyoncé of Organizing.”

It takes readers step-by-step through her revolutionary KonMari Method for simplifying, organizing, and storing.

Start with the easy stuff.
Kondo organizes by category and tackles those categories in a very specific order. First up: clothes and books, because they're not as hard to work through as sentimental keepsake-type things. After books come papers, miscellaneous item (the free koozie you got at the basketball game), then personal items (that box of letters from your ex).

Take everything you have in one category and put it all in one place.
Kondo instructed me to group together every book I had in my desk area. "You want to feel shocked by the sight of all your things," Kondo told me through a translator. As an editor, I get sent tons of books, from galleys to finished copies, and I thought I was pretty good about tossing the ones I didn't want or need anymore. So, so wrong. I'm not really sure how I found such interesting ways to squirrel them away. They were on all my shelves, on top of my drawers, in my drawers, on the floor. I don't even have that much shelf space, and I'd turned my cube into a miniature library. There were so many books I was sweating from the workout.
Pick up each object in your hands.
Kondo emphasized that the tactile experience would help me confront the choice of keeping or tossing each book. She and I didn't exchange a lot of words, but I think I get what she meant. If I didn't actively pick up the book in my hands, I could ignore it forever, and it would continue to sit in a dark corner collecting dust.

Ask yourself, "Does this spark joy?"
It's a weird headspace to get into, but it works. Once I knew what the criteria was for keeping something (sparks joy), I had an easy time culling my collection. Most of the books I'd been holding on to were ones I'd never read — and even maybe knew deep down that I never would. I'd say I let go of three-quarters of my books, and it felt really good to clear that physical space.