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Updated September 16th, 2019 at 17:52 IST

Pack better for your travel with tidying tips by Marie Kondo

Here's how you can organize your suitcase and life with tidying tips by Marie Kondo. Her KonMari method made Jenny Albertini choose decluttering as a profession

Reported by: Tanima Ray
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Since publishing her book "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" in 2011, Marie Kondo gave the world the joy of tidying up the KonMari way. With the 2019 Netflix series, "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo" based on Kondo's decluttering guidelines, she became an icon of organized lifestyle. With her tips thousands of lives have been changed and so did the life of Jenny Albertini, who left her U.S. government diplomat job to become a professional organizer. It was Kondo's book that inspired Albertini to become a KonMari practitioner. With a three-day training course and 50 hours of practicum work, Albertini became Washington's first certified KonMari Method consultant in 2016.


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How to declutter your home by KonMari Method

Both Mary Kondo and Albertini's main objective is to help people organize their lives at home and the KonMari method, showed Albertini the right way to approach it. She in her explanatory video said that she first tried out the method at her own home like packing for a trip. Konmari method literally puts your home in order. Albertini said that if you use the method for your closet, you arrange the pieces right at the place they should be, like in pairs. So, you know what to pick up when you are in need. 

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The KonMari Travel Pack

When it comes to packing for a trip, Albertini says that one should deliberate on what to bring. One needs the vision of the trip and decide what they want while they go to certain destinations. That helps in choosing the items for the journey, she adds. There is a simple need of putting some thought and choosing bare necessities rather than being overwhelmed by the entire process, she explained. Improvising situations, solving with items that suffice, that's how you do it. Albertini recommends to go minimalistic and leave out the items that are less used or extra. Her tips on Kondo packing are to bring items that can be used multiple times. Going in details she said, that one needs to separate liquid toiletries from your nonliquid ones. What works the most is folding your clothing according to the KonMari Method: in long rectangles and stored item next to the item, not draped in a stack. She adds that KonMari's packing method uses very less space and also smooths out the wrinkles on the fabric keeping it safe for use.

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Published September 16th, 2019 at 13:31 IST

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