This is Kondo's follow up to her mega hit The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. If you haven't read the first one, Kondo's main advice is to discard anything in your home that doesn't give you joy. Her belief is that by paring down our possessions to only the things that we truly love - ridiculous and unusable or not - we can find true happiness and our life's path. Sound dramatic? Well, it is a little bit.returnreturnI don't buy into everything that she says but I have been working hard on de-cluttering for years, and these books fit right into this mindset. What I liked about this companion piece is that it has illustrated guides on the "proper" way to store all sorts of things... and those guides work! I recently got a new bureau and put clothes in it, but was disappointed because it wasn't holding quite as much as I had hoped it would. By taking everything out, getting rid of what didn't spark joy, and properly folding things, I combined three drawers into one, which allowed me to pull clothes out of my over-stuffed closet and store in the bureau. Even better, I can see absolutely every piece of clothing that I own, which has never happened.returnreturnIf you already own the first one, there's no need to buy this one. Get it from the library! Much of the text is the same but there are a few more helpful stories from challenges she faced with different clients. The true gems are the illustrated guides, but once you get the formula right, you can fold anything without the guide.