Sorry, slight hiatus in December talky due to bears. (Why is it that it was like pulling teeth to get 2000 words for Yuletide but I'm over 20,000 for dw posts this month already, without even trying hard?)

Next one on the list is to talk about The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. I had heard about this off and on, and then they discussed it on Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap and it sounded maybe worth reading? Also short, and I needed to catch up on my goodreads reading challenge. And then I discovered that while there were over 200 holds on the library copies, nobody seemed to have noticed we had a playaway edition, so I checked that out, and listened to it all on one Saturday. While I was helping sort through other folks' excess crap, natch.

If you have never heard of this, it's a book by Marie Kondo about decluttering that was recently translated into English from Japanese and has been extremely popular among the sort of people who read books about decluttering (and was apparently already super-popular in Japan.) It has a lot of good advice and also makes a lot of really large claims about what its methods can do. I don't have a copy on hand and I know absolutely nothing about the whole culture that has apparently grown up around KonMari, so instead you just get some disorganized thoughts in not particular order:

( have some poorly-aimed bullet points )

I am interested in this kind of philosophy not just because of its obvious relevance to my own life, but because I believe that my culture is in the middle of a huge demographic and economic transition that is specifically going to have to drastically change our relationship to stuff.

( So here's some rambly thoughts on that )

So. That is why I am vaguely interested in the wider theory of clutter, in a general sense.