The Konmari Checklist
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Initial preparations:
The first few steps of this checklist focus on pre-tidying rituals, such as visualizing your ideal lifestyle and declaring gratitude to your home.
Once these steps have been completed, you can dive straight into tidying.
Marie Kondo advocates for following processes - just like we do at Process Street! Therefore, stop tasks have been added to crucial steps, ensuring you follow the process exactly.
Learn more about stop tasks by watching the video below.
Write down the goals you'd like to achieve during this tidying up session.
If you've launched this checklist - be it for the first time or 100th - you're wanting to achieve something. That something could be a cleaner home, a better-utilized space, or a general decluttering.
In the text boxes below, write down the goals you wish to attain during this session
Goal 1
Goal 2
Goal 3
Read Marie Kondo's 6 rules for tidying, then tick them off in the subtask checklist.
According to Marie Kondo, there are six basic rules of tidying. These six rules will aid you in your quest to declutter.
Read the 6 rules below, then tick them off the subtask checklist once you've fully understood them.
Commit yourself to tidying up
Imagine your ideal lifestyle
Finish discarding first
Tidy by category, not location
Follow the right order
Ask yourself if items spark joy
Declare gratitude to your home, then write in the text box how you declared gratitude.
Before Marie Kondo helps people to declutter their homes, she will find a spot either in the main reception room or the hallway, kneel down, and introduce herself to the home.
She also asks the inhabitants to declare their gratitude to the home; this could be a ritual as simple as taking a moment to think about how useful the home has been, and internally thanking it for providing those benefits.
Before starting the tidying process, do the same; declare gratitude to your home.
Then, use the text box below to write down how you've declared gratitude to your home this time around.
Beginning the process:
Now it's time to begin tidying.
Marie Kondo believes the best way to tidy is by category, not by room. So, with this KonMari checklist, you'll be tidying by categories.
They are as follows:
Clothing.
Books.
Papers.
Komono (Miscellaneous items).
Sentimental items.
For all the items in these categories, you'll be figuring out if they spark joy. To understand if items spark joy or not,
watch the video below.
Clothing:
The first category to tidy is clothes. Watch
the handy video below
for tips on how to fold and store your clothes neatly and easily. The tips Marie Kondo provides will be very useful once you've decided what to keep, and what items should be discarded.
Sort through clothing
Sort through your clothing by following the subchecklist below. Then, use the text widgets to write down what clothes you kept and what you threw out.
Depending on your relationship with clothes, this may be the hardest or the easiest category.
Luckily, if you follow the KonMari Method steps in the subchecklist, it will make the process simple, easy, and fast.
After following the steps in the subchecklist, then write down what you kept and threw out in the text boxes.
By writing down why you kept certain clothes and why you threw out others, it will help you to be more reflective, and ensure you've only kept the most essential items, and that you've thrown out items that truly no longer bring joy.
Gather all items of clothing
Touch each item and consider if they bring you joy
Create a "keep" and "throw out" pile as you go
Thank the items you'll throw out for their service
Fold each item you'll keep and give it a specific place (drawer, wardrobe shelf, wardrobe hanger) to live
If you decide to throw out clothes you no longer have use for, remember that others may find them useful.
Think about where you could donate clothes before throwing them away - a local charity or second-hand clothing store, for example.
Which clothes were thrown out and why?
Which clothes were kept and why?
Books:
For the second category of this todo list, you'll be decluttering your books. If you've read a book and technically no longer have use for it, but seeing it on your bookshelf still brings you joy, don't throw it away! Watch Marie Kondo's explanation for this in
the video below.
Declutter books
Gather all books
Touch each item and consider if they bring you joy
Create a "keep" and "throw out" pile as you go
Thank the items you'll throw out for their service
Put the books from the "keep" pile back, neatly, in their original place
You could choose to donate any unwanted books to a nearby school, library, or bookshop.
Which books were thrown out and why?
Which books were kept and why?
Papers:
In the third category, you'll be sorting through papers. This means tidying documents such as bills, reports, letters, cards, manuals, and important and non-important documents alike.
Tidy up papers
Tidy the papers you own, considering what's essential to keep and what should be discarded, and then make notes in the text boxes.
The initial process for tidying papers follows the same principles as the clothing and books categories.
To keep your personal information safe, consider using a shredder or cutting the paper up by hand.
Follow the subtask checklist and then write down your post-paper-tidying notes in the text boxes.
Gather the paper and paper documents you own
Sort the paper into categories - e.g., one category for greeting cards, another for thank you notes, another for bills, and so on
Begin with one category and make your way through
Pick up each bit of paper in each category and read through them. If the paper isn't valuable or is no longer necessary to keep, thank it for its service and place it in the "shred" or "burn" pile
Discard the unwanted papers
What papers were discarded and why?
Which papers were kept and why?
Put remaining papers into three distinct categories
Put the remaining papers in three distinct categories, then use the short text boxes to note down where you put the papers.
Because the papers you keep will be utilized at different times, Marie Kondo suggests putting the papers into three different categories:
Category one: Needs attention. These are documents that need to be looked at in a matter of hours or days - like a rental tenancy agreement form that needs to be signed.
Category two: Are needed for the short-term. These are documents that need to be looked at again, but not immediately. An example would be a birthday card you need to write and send in the next two weeks.
Category three: Are needed indefinitely. These are documents that need to be kept at all times, but not necessarily looked at often. The completed tenancy agreement contract, once you've fully-moved in, would be an example of this.
By putting things in separate categories, it will help you to access different documents more easily.
Once you've put them into three distinct categories, store them appropriately and choose an apt location for them.
Put remaining papers in categories for "needs attention", "are needed for the short-term", and "are needed indefinitely"
Place the papers in storage e.g. folders
Choose a location for the organized papers to go
Where was the first category of papers put?
Where was the second category of papers put?
Where was the third category of papers put?
Komono (Miscellaneous items):
The fourth category is where you'll tackle miscellaneous items.
Marie Kondo defines Komono - the miscellaneous items - as all the other items that aren't clothes, books, papers, or sentimental items.
Due to this, this will be the largest task of this KonMari checklist.
Organize miscellaneous items
Organize your Komono - miscellaneous - items by following the subchecklist, and make notes afterward in the text boxes.
Marie Kondo's "Komono" section, which is for miscellaneous items like kitchen utensils, grooming products, or bedding, requires you to be a bit more methodical than in previous steps.
To help you with task management, start at the beginning of your home - the front door - and collect the miscellaneous items as you go, and make a pile of them. Then, use the subchecklist to help sort through them.
Because you'll have several Komono items to go through, you may want to check and uncheck the subchecklist below for each pile of items you create.
After you've organized and decluttered your Komono items, then make notes of what was kept and what wasn't.
Collect your home's miscellaneous items
It might help you to group them into certain piles - a pile for kitchen items, another for tech, another for lighting, and so on
Do as you've done previously: Touch each item, consider if it sparks joy, and if it doesn't, thank it for its service and place it in a "discard" pile
Place the items you'll keep in its original place - if you can't find a new, better place for it, that is!
Discard the Komono items which aren't needed anymore, or don't bring joy
Instead of immediately throwing certain items away, they may be useful to others. Think of any local organizations or charities that could make use of the items you no longer need in your home.
Which misc. items were discarded and why?
Which misc. items were kept and why?
Sentimental items:
In the last category, you'll be sorting through sentimental items.
For some, this category may be daunting. However, Marie Kondo's steps will help you keep the sentimental items that spark joy and improve your life, rather than keeping items that may have negative associations attached.
Sort through sentimental items
Sort through the sentimental items you own by following the steps in the subchecklist, then make notes in the text boxes.
It's time to sort through your sentimental items.
These could be photos, letters, pieces of jewelry, toys from childhood, or memorabilia from school. Therefore, if it has considerable sentimental value, it's worthy of going in the sorting pile.
Follow the steps in the subchecklist, then write down information regarding items you kept, and items you discarded.
If you have an abundance of a particular kind of sentimental item - such as plane tickets from an around-the-world trip - consider keeping one or two that are representative of the trip. You don't need to keep them all.
This approach can also be applied to photos, letters, and/or childhood toys.
Collect all sentimental items and put them in a pile in front of you
One by one, see if the item in question sparks enough joy to keep, and if it needs to be kept or not
Put the items that are no longer needed in a pile, thanking them for their service as you go
Organize the items you'll keep and put them somewhere safe, like inside a storage box
Discard the sentimental items
Before putting items such as childhood toys in the trash, if they're still useable and not deteriorating, think about where you could locally donate them.
Which sentimental items were discarded and why?
Which sentimental items were kept and why?
Moving Forward
Consider if goals have been achieved
Using the text boxes, write down if the goals you established at the beginning of this checklist have been achieved or not.
Before starting the tidying process, you wrote down several goals you wanted to achieve.
Now that it's over, consider whether you achieved your goals or not.
If you feel you have achieved your goals, write down why! Similarly, if there were goals you didn't reach, write down the reason(s) why.
With thanks to variables, the text you wrote for your goals in task 4 is being pulled through. You'll be able to see the text below, meaning you don't have to go back to task 4 to see what you wrote.
Has goal #1 been achieved?
Has goal #2 been achieved?
Has goal #3 been achieved?