The Fiver | Tidying Up with Ole Gunnar Solskjær

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Human beings have now reached such an advanced stage of evolution that we are prepared to pay cash money to a subscription channel to watch a reality television programme called Tidying Up. You can find that one on Netflix, tune in kids. It stars organising consultant Marie Kondo, whose MO is to rock up at someone’s tat-packed house and order them to throw away some stuff and fold up their clothes neatly. That’s about it, give or take. While cynics may raise an eyebrow at the brazen simplicity of the advice proffered, and ponder the savage irony of how the ten million copies of her NYT No 1 bestseller will be cluttering up charity shops for years to come, the folk she advises seem pretty happy at the end of each episode. So fair’s fair. “Sparking joy” is Kondo’s mantra, nicked from The Fiver. OK, she didn’t nick it from The Fiver.

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