exemplaryfeat's review

3.0
funny informative

elizhines's review

3.0
funny informative inspiring fast-paced
queentela's profile picture

queentela's review

3.5
funny hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
shelikesbig_books2's profile picture

shelikesbig_books2's review

3.0
informative lighthearted fast-paced
funny informative medium-paced
funny informative fast-paced

Funny while being practical .

I really enjoyed this!

I’ve read Marie Kondo’s Spark Joy book and watched her Netflix show. This was a great “American” guide to clearing stuff out. Americans definitely have a more “hoarder” kind of culture with freebies and gifts and societal norms. Compare that to Japan where things are just culturally different. This book has helped me rethink about de-cluttering my space again with this mindset

Definitely useful on the whole, it just seems like it’s meant for fucking bougie people at points. Like the idea that you should get rid of anything you don’t currently need that is available at walmart. We don’t all have the money to buy things over and over again, and yes donating things is good, but for us broke-ass-folks it makes way more sense to repurpose things. The title also makes it seem like it’s going to be some bad ass hardcore version of the original book, but it really just has swear-words interspersed throughout. Not a bad book in the end though, I just don’t agree with every suggestion made.

3.5 stars. Really this is less a parody of Marie Kondo's book and more the Americanized, swear-filled, hard-truth synopsis.

It is a trend now to have the f-word in the title to come across as more hardcore and serious. I've read a few of these books, some good, some not great. This was a not great book. Obvious advice you can find online blogs or other books about tidying/decluttering. Pretty boring too.