The Art of Discarding
How to Get Rid of Clutter and Find Joy

The book manages to be both dated and very relevant. If you're tired of all the sorting gurus, this may be the right book for you. It tells you exactly where you and everyone else goes wrong in the practice of tidying up and throwing away. So yes, please read the book, take out whatever you need, an......more

I have read a lot of books on getting rid of clutter and becoming more of a minimalist. I love the topic. (See my "clutter" book category in Goodreads.) So when I saw that this book is what inspired Marie Kondo's books, I decided to read it. It is not my favorite but I still liked it. There was some......more

I purchased this book because of a reference made by Marie Kondo in her book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. She stated her inspiration started with The Art of Discarding. Well, this book did not work well for me. There is quite a bit of repetition of the same subject matter and the organizat......more

This book was very repetitive. Get rid of it now! Discard it now! over and over. I found the author quite often contradicts herself, at one time telling the reader not to examine the contents of a box, just throw it out. Then on the next page saying if the stuff is in a box open it first and check th......more

The Art of Discarding is the book that Marie Kondo claims inspired her book, Tidying Up. Some key differences: Kondo says you should do all of your discarding and organizing in one go, while Tatsumi says this would be overwhelming and impossible. The best advice I got from this book was that when yo......more