The Art of Discarding: How to Get Rid of Clutter and Find Joy

Nagisa Tatsumi

Mar 2017 · Sold by Hachette Books

About this ebook

The book that inspired Marie Kondo's The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Nagisa Tatsumi's international bestseller offers a practical plan to figure out what to keep and what to discard so you can get--and stay--tidy, once and for all.

Practical and inspiring, The Art of Discarding (the book that originally inspired a young Marie Kondo to start cleaning up her closets) offers hands-on advice and easy-to-follow guidelines to help readers learn how to finally let go of stuff that is holding them back -- as well as sage advice on acquiring less in the first place. Author Nagisa Tatsumi urges us to reflect on our attitude to possessing things and to have the courage and conviction to get rid of all the stuff we really don't need, offering advice on how to tackle the things that pile up at home and take back control. By learning the art of discarding you will gain space, free yourself from "accumulation syndrome," and find new joy and purpose in your clutter-free life.

Ratings and reviews

My boyfriend and I were discussing our families' relationships with STUFF my grandparents and his parents have so much stuff crowded into every nook of their house on the off chance they'll use it. We have been trying to cut down and think about what we specifically use on an efficient basis. I agreed with many of the points in this book, I disagreed with some others, but either way it gave me a ton of new ideas about how to better manage my household and do it much more effectively!

Very informative. However, Marie Kondo echoes about 85% of this information in her own books.

Straightforward thinking, tips and directions for discarding vs simply rearranging clutter.

About the author

Born near Tokyo in 1965, Nagisa Tatsumi is a Japanese author, journalist, and commentator. She published the original edition of The Art of Discarding as Suteru! Gijutsu in Japan in 2000 where it became an overnight sensation. It has since become a million copy international bestseller and was the inspiration for Marie Kondo's The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up.