And the experience of reading Kondo’s books does induce a kind of pulsing magic. Her optimistic but precise prose and her stubborn insistence that things have feelings (Your bunched-up stockings are insulted by their unjust treatment at your hands! Your coat appreciates a little thanks for keeping you warm every day!), combined with her lifelong passion for total control over her environment, have a unique way of inciting a truly life-changing bout of cathartic junk-purging. It’s not that things aren’t important, it’s that some things are incredibly important and other things are literal
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