Kondo's decluttering was never about getting down to the bare minimum. It's about getting rid of everything that doesn't make you feel happy. That assumes you do have a few things that really work for you. But what would those things be? And what if you're just starting out? And also, what if you need to buy gifts for people who you know have followed the Marie Kondo method?
Here's the KonMari store. And here's the page for the most-mocked thing: Tuning Fork & Rose Quartz Crystal/$75.
Marie uses a tuning fork in her everyday life to help her to reset – and she’s never without a crystal. Striking the fork against a crystal creates pure tones that are believed to help restore a sense of balance. Made of aluminum alloy, this KonMari tuning fork has a frequency of 4,096 hertz. Comes with a rose quartz crystal.She's never without a crystal, but she doesn't make any assertions about what the crystal is supposed to do. Leave the crystal beliefs to others to propound, but as for the tuning fork, the belief is stated: It restores a sense of balance. I note that there's no assertion that Marie believes that or that the belief is true. The assertion is only that there are such beliefs out there, presumably somewhere in the mind of some human beings, because where else could beliefs that complex exist? A cat might have a sense of balance, but it's unlikely that a cat has beliefs about a sense of balance, and virtually impossible for a cat to think it could recover a lost sense of balance by using an object to make a particular sound.
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Now it's time to Re Clutter with my stuff! Reasonable prices if you like rich people clutter.
Sheesh, some people are just miserable.
An answer to what’s the frequency:
“... Crystal Tuner is tuned to a frequency of 4096 cycles per second (cps). This frequency is generated from an 8cps fundamental tone raised nine octaves (i.e. 8 cps, 32 cps, 64 cps, 128 cps, 256 cps, 512 cps, 1024 cps, 2048 cps, 4096 cps.) The 8 cps fundamental resonates with the pulsation of the Earth. The ninth octave of the upper overtone series begins with 4096 cps and is said to open the doorway to angelic kingdoms. Alexander Scriaben, the Russian composer, believed that this octave united Heaven and Earth and would bring forth a new era. His last composition, Mysterium was to be played in India using bells hung from clouds sounding ninth octave harmonics.”
The 8 cps fundamental resonates with the pulsation of the Earth.
If do teh google on
resonant frequency clear energy
those other guys claim that the resonant f of the earth is 7.83 Hz. Or 432 Hz. Maybe both!
Here's a sillier form of worship, a lawyer and his designer fence (PBUI).
There is some seriously funny stuff on her website. I can't believe no one made fun of the shiatsu stick for $12 which looks like a handmade vampire stake. What a deal! Though I think I'm might to have to buy the French tote. It's sparking joy in me from the picture. Hahaha
She's apparently a great marketer. Nothing more. Something the NY Times could stand to learn about.
I like the idea of having well cultivated but far fewer possessions, which is most of what Kondo espouses. People who know the price of everything hate that kind of thinking.
If a crystal tuning fork does not spark joy don't get one...
She's apparently a great marketer.
I think they're called "influencers" now.
There are many people who cannot abide happiness in others..
Marie Kondo has some nutty ideas and practices but her book has inspired me to toss things that don't 'spark joy'. And I don't roll up my socks any more. ;-)
Nutjob fad turns out to have crap to sell to other nutjobs? This is news in some way?
You can get a 4096 Hz fork at Amazon (use the Althouse portal) $13
https://www.amazon.com/Youjoy-Crystal-Silicone-Cleaning-Packaged/dp/B07RSCMYKJ/ref=sr_1_8?crid=1TZXV347Q3XIX&keywords=4096+hz+tuning+fork&qid=1574433382&s=musical-instruments&sprefix=4096+hz%2Cmi%2C144&sr=1-8
Or a set of 8, in convenient musical notes: $30
https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Tuning-Forks-Set-Mallet/dp/B00ARJOR5I/ref=asc_df_B00ARJOR5I/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=241911294610&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10009310251006658153&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9001881&hvtargid=aud-801738734305:pla-451291790081&psc=1#feature-bullets-btf
It's about getting rid of everything that doesn't make you feel happy.
I hate clutter too. But...it is more about getting rid of things that make you unhappy. There are a lot of things that don't make you happy but are needed and useful. If you got rid of the useful and needed things then you would be UNhappy.
Needed and useful things don't need to be ugly though. There can be beauty in even kitchen appliances :-)
4,096 Hertz (aka 4,096 cycles per second) is just about the C three octaves above middle C, the eighth white key from the top of a piano. (That C is 4186.01 Hz and the B immediately below is 3951.07 Hz.)
What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
Quarts is a piezoelectric so that must be science
That's exactly right Ferdinand Stein. I always get a chuckle out of that word because influent is the crap that flows into a waste treatment plant
DBQ, I also hate clutter. And Kondo's advice is not about disposing of useful items--if we actually use them. Being a practical sort, I often hang onto useful things that I never really use. Giving them away can make them useful to someone else. :-)
Suckering middle-class White folks into believing that the Asian version of something is intrinsically superior to it's Western equivalent is an old shuck. Ah, the mysterious East! I'll take an English longbow over a yumi any day of the week.
Thanks for reminding me I need to build a Mongolian horse bow for my grandsons. They like their longbow recurve and compound but they're old school and one of the things they want to start doing a shooting arrows from their bicycles. The almond eyes of the Eastern Europeans are proof positive of the effectiveness of that particular weapon system
It's just recycled NewAge of the 70s. Does she sell bell bottom pants and wide collar disco shirts too?
Howard,
We can rewrite the old programming motto GIGO: influent, effluent.
Hey Dem Candidates:
The Kondominium™ - new urban low-income housing, sparsely-appointed, celebrating open space. It's really just an empty sheetrock box but it has a defensible aesthetic.
Now if I could only de-clutter my hard drive. It's not that there's any danger of running out of space but the idea of so many files, many of which I don't remember even creating, bothers me. And how did I end up with so many files of the same photos?
Marie Kondo is a delightful and harmless lunatic and I thoroughly enjoyed her book, not because I intend to declutter my house (though some of her advice there is quite good), but because of the window into a unique mind.
I think she probably doesn't stand out as much in Japan. Japanese culture has a respect for single-minded mastery of something regardless of whether or not it is of any use to anyone. It could be origami, or swordsmanship, or it could even be tying the knot on a trashbag.
If a janitor in the US achieved the highest level of elegant and efficient trash-bag knot-tying, Americans would never notice or appreciate it, but in Japan his work would draw pilgrims.
Howard: "They like their longbow recurve and compound but they're old school and one of the things they want to start doing a shooting arrows from their bicycles."
What a great idea! I'll suggest it to my grandchildren. They still have events in Japan where guys dressed samurai-style ride horses and shoot arrows. That doesn't even sound easy, but their accuracy is impressive.
I agree with the notion of getting rid of junk and only keeping things that are useful or make you happy (ideally both). These days it is not so hard to do because we live in a rather small house.
Things I have that fit both criteria:
- My Springfield Range Officer 1911 .45 caliber pistol
- My Ebony RW45 camera
- My Channelocks
- Our handmade tiger maple breakfast table and chairs
All are elegant, highly functional designs that please the eye and hand in use.
What a great idea! I'll suggest it to my grandchildren. They still have events in Japan where guys dressed samurai-style ride horses and shoot arrows. That doesn't even sound easy, but their accuracy is impressive.
Yeah, high-tech weaponry is no fun. Not bushido, certainly.
Gabriel observes: Japanese culture has a respect for single-minded mastery of something regardless of whether or not it is of any use to anyone. It could be origami, or swordsmanship, or it could even be tying the knot on a trashbag.
In one of the Japanese histories I was reading, a master was able to detect the sword that cut a twig a certain way. Everything was a fine art worthy of respect.
mockturtle: Very true about their respect for mastery of a skill. I recall seeing a film about a contest among Japanese woodworkers to see who could make the thinnest, continuous strip of wood with a simple hand plane. The wood chips were literally translucent, they were so thin.
A US commenter asked what good this was. I suggested that one could quickly cook the strips and serve them al dente with a light sauce if one wished.
In an excerpt from John Keegan's History of Warfare he quotes another historian: "There exists in Japan a film showing a machine-gun barrel being sliced in half by a sword from the forge of the great fifteenth-century maker Kanemoto II. If this seems improbable, one must remember that smiths like Kanemoto hammered and folded and rehammered, day after day, until a sword blade contained something like four million layers of finely forged steel."
Wow! I think the reason I admire this sort of thing is because I, myself, lack the patience and perseverance to create a fine work. And why Forged in Fire is my favorite TV series.
@mockturtle:"...hammered and folded and rehammered, day after day, until a sword blade contained something like four million layers of finely forged steel."
You need only 22 folding/hammering cycles to reach 4 million layers; but if you stop at 21, you only got 2 million layers.
Gabriel: It's a lot like making puff pastry. The more layers you butter and fold, the flakier the pastry. :-)
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