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One of us, one of us<\/a>: extreme tidy-er Marie Kondo admits to giving up on extreme tidiness and that her house is messy<\/span><\/p>\n This is what we would call a pivot, in the working world. \u00a0I didn\u2019t realize that Marie Kondo was two years younger than me, and it probably would\u2019ve been a real fucking chore to maintain the air of minimalist perfection for the rest of her life in order to maintain her brand, not like she really needs it anymore considering her book has sold over 40 million copies and her Netflix show had already been a big hit.<\/span><\/p>\n Coming out to the public to explain that she\u2019s mostly given up on being tidy, and that her own home was messy, probably the smartest thing to do.\u00a0 Better to disclose the intel on her own terms instead of having someone find it out, disclose it on the internet, and have the wrath of the internet be all over her calling her a fraud and a hypocrite that tells other people what to do with all their shit but doesn\u2019t know how to handle her own.<\/span><\/p>\n But what this really boils down to is the fact that the reason why the Queen of Clean has become the Herald of Hoarding just like that, is the same reason why millions of people like me struggle to maintain our own capabilities of tidiness as much as we\u2019d like to: kids.<\/span><\/p>\n Her book went gangbusters in 2011, but then she got married in 2012.\u00a0 Presumably it wasn\u2019t long before did kids come into the equation, so it\u2019s actually very impressive to me that she had the wherewithal to even entertain producing her Netflix series that dropped in 2019, which either means she was an absent parent or her husband filled in admirably, perhaps both.<\/span><\/p>\n But as is often the case, once the number of kids begins to outnumber the adults in a family unit, that is where the shit begins to hit the fan.\u00a0 And this is coming from someone who\u2019s family is currently at a 1:1 ratio, and I still feel like I\u2019m losing control all the time.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t imagine bringing another into the home, and mythical wife and I take measures to make sure that such will become an impossibility.<\/span><\/p>\n And in Kondo\u2019s case, third child enters the fray, and suddenly she\u2019s no longer able to keep up with being KonMari, professionally, or in her own personal life.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s hilarious that she didn\u2019t just go from \u201cno longer being tidy,\u201d to being \u201cmy house is messy\u201d because frankly that\u2019s the kind of transition that my household went through when kids started entering the equation.<\/span><\/p>\n The point of all this is that kids quite literally, break anyone.\u00a0 If they can break a wealthy multi-media success like Marie Kondo, they\u2019ll have no problem at all busting up the lives of all the rest of us plebes who decide to reproduce and repopulate, and the more non-parents can comprehend just how difficult it is, the better 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