The "junk drawer" has become a universally acknowledged space where you store all the things that doesn't seem to have a place. It is not always a drawer - it could be a room, box, or a corner in the attic.
In truth, most of us have one, and almost none of us know how to deal with it.
It emphasizes tidying by category (not by location) beginning with clothes, then moving on to books, papers, komono (miscellaneous items), and, finally, sentimental items. Keep ...
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing explores how putting your space in order causes "correspondingly dramatic changes in lifestyle and perspective." Marie Kondo, the author, recommends that you defy conventional wisdom and start by discarding and only then thoroughly organize your space in one go.
Putting things away creates the illusion that the clutter problem has been solved.
Organizing all your junk better does not equal getting rid of clutter. And unfortunately most people leap at storage methods that promise quick and convenient ways to remove visible clutter.
For example, set goals like “clothes today, books tomorrow.”
We often store the same type of item in more than one place and when we tidy each place separately, we fail to see that we’re repeating the same work in many locations.
This is probably one of the shortest-but most useful-posts you'll find on the KonMari Method. It's taken straight from the source, and you can also read a summary of Marie Kondo's book here: This post is meant to be a quick reference guide or cheat sheet that you can bookmark and come back to without having to get lost in the details in other posts.