The Art of Discarding

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While digging into Marie Kondo’s book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying I stumbled across a line which I found to be quite interesting:

The subject of tidying first caught my attention when I was in junior high school. I came across a book called The Art of Discarding by Magisa Tatsumi (Takarajimasha, Inc.), which explained the importance of throwing things away.

The interesting aspect for me is that I was searching for Marie’s book, saw this one, and almost went to purchase and read it first, simply based on the name and clever cover (they’ve discarded the two letter i’s from the book’s title). Having now found out it was her inspiration I am further inclined to grab a copy, despite the fact that it’s very likely more of the same.

Has anyone given this a read yet? I’d love to hear your thoughts and/or recommendations in the comments!

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