Marie Kondo

Everyone has a distinctive personality – like class leader, jock or, like Marie, the organizer type. She tidied from the time she was in elementary school, in fact, she volunteered to clean and tidy up the classroom. She didn’t fully recognize that tidying up and organization would be life-long pursuit until she first became a consultant.

Marie would spend her leisure time after school at the library pouring over design and home style magazines. She read tips on organizing, cleaning and storing and would try them out at home. After finishing with her room, she would move on to the rooms of other family members and “help” them with organizational and storage problems. She got carried away at times and went too far in her largess by throwing away items that belonged to other family members. Marie knew that the person wasn’t using some items...