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I Got Kondo’d

Bernard
9 min readMay 31, 2020

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By Diarmuid Greene / SPORTSFILE / Web Summit — https://www.flickr.com/photos/websummit/22765900312/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75912897

This post is long overdue. As a matter of fact, any post for me is overdue. I still have thousands more that I want to write, but do not have the downtime to work on them.

It seems like every day for the first two months of the year, the fifty-nine days that comprised this past January and February, I could not log on to my Yahoo! account, read through a newspaper, or one of the dozen magazines that I still subscribe to without at least one reference to the Kon Mari method as espoused by declutterer extraordinaire Marie Kondo.

Mind you, I have been reading the very same things that Ms. Kondo espouses for many years and in many forms. Truthfully, I cannot recall how many articles I read or books that I purchased urging the reader to part with things that do not bring you joy, clothes that you have not worn for a while, and items that you will never use again.

More truth-telling: I admit to having a problem with holding onto things for the sake of keeping them.

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Bernard
Bernard

Written by Bernard

A married father of two adult children and a Morkie. Long-time economic developer, former P.O., avid reader, thinker, investor, and walker.

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