It's better then to gather all the books I have in the house to one spot and then deal with them. I do like a combination of it though: things that I like keeping in categories, like books and clothing and kitchen stuff, I prefer to do a somewhat KonMari of - but mostly because I keep those items together anyway, so going back and maybe reorganising over and over again as I find a new book doesn't make sense. It does take longer, overall, but her way is much more accepting of "just do one thing and then you're done for the day unless you want to do more" whereas with KonMari, you kind of need to get one category fully done unless you have a room in your new place that you can use to put all your categories in and leave them there for however long you need to be away for (with kids and a life I'm guessing it can sometimes be days) without it being in the way. I found Dana K White just last year, and I like her slower approach to things. And then I moved again and now I have several rooms, with doors. ![]() When I first read KonMari several years ago, it was the best thing ever for me at the time: I still lived at home, so while I had a lot of stuff (so many books I couldn't even begin to count them) it was all contained in pretty much one room and without me doing it on purpose, most stuff was already in ready categories for me to sort out without feeling as though I made a bigger mess while sorting. ![]() Maybe also why I kept just redoing my closet lol. I also didn’t have the motivation to go through my entire house to look for things that fit a category so that overwhelm feeling would stop me from doing the rest of Kondo. Yep! The container rule Dana has was a game changer for me and helped me make noticeable gains that weren’t as painful as what Kondo would ask for. Like also because I have depression and anxiety there was a fear that if I followed Kondo I would really get rid of way too much. Whereas with Kondo I just kept hedging and finding myself making excuses about the joy thing. Down to the can of chickpeas that I still have in my pantry. It was like she knew my thought process and had been through it before. I felt like our brains worked the same way and we struggled with the same things. Reading Dana’s book got me way more progress and actually similar results to maybe what doing Kondo would have gotten but through a different way and explanation. Thanks to Reddit I was recommended to Dana White when I googled Reddit and overwhelmed by Kondo. ![]() I kept doing step one with clothing over and over because I felt like I couldn’t get it right. Needing to do everything in a specific order also stopped me. The perfection of me wondering if I was feeling joy and then philosophizing about if I wasn’t feeling joy because I was just having a bad day or my mental health was the problem … stopped me in my tracks. Dana K White worked for me when Konmari didn’t because I could.
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