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Ms Marie Kondo's organising technique, known as the KonMari method, helped her many followers empty their homes of clutter.

Japanese decluttering queen Marie Kondo's Netflix show has sparked a fresh wave of global interest in the tidying concepts she outlined in her best-selling books. She and her husband Takumi Kawahara, also the CEO of KonMari Media, spoke to Bloomberg about what the patented KonMari method really means.

If you haven't communed with your socks lately, thanked your shoes for their hard work or bowed (at least mentally) to your home in appreciation, maybe it's time to consider it.

Ms Marie Kondo's organising technique, known as the KonMari method, helped her many followers empty their homes of clutter.

Japanese decluttering queen Marie Kondo's Netflix show has sparked a fresh wave of global interest in the tidying concepts she outlined in her best-selling books. She and her husband Takumi Kawahara, also the CEO of KonMari Media, spoke to Bloomberg about what the patented KonMari method really means.

If you haven't communed with your socks lately, thanked your shoes for their hard work or bowed (at least mentally) to your home in appreciation, maybe it's time to consider it.