About 25 percent of two-car garages don’t have room to park even one car inside them, and still one out of every 11 American households rents off-site storage-the fastest-growing segment of the commercial real estate industry over the past four decades. Most homes contain more televisions than people. Over the same period, the size of the average American home has nearly tripled, and today that average home contains about 300,000 items. In America, we consume twice as many material goods as we used to 50 years ago. Let me begin by saying that, to me, any voice calling us to own fewer possessions is a welcome voice. Surely, in Kondo’s simple question was the razor to slice through indecision about what to keep and what to toss when pursuing a simpler lifestyle. Suddenly, it seemed like everyone who was flirting with the notion of decluttering their homes began talking about joy-sparks. If not, then So long, mustard-colored cardigan with the leather buttons. Does an item in your possession give you a little thrill when you hold it in your hands? If so, hang on to it. That was the criterion Kondo proposed for deciding whether to keep something. When decluttering expert Marie Kondo published her ground-breaking book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, hordes of grateful, stuff-encumbered readers around the world seized particularly on her question “Does it spark joy?”
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