The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Mixed bag. Much of my cringing could be due to translation or different cultural concepts.
Also mixed because it is asking one to change, often to change a life long habit or family way of life.

Dislikes:
kept talking about garbage and ‘throwing away'; she didn't mention donating or recycling until about 3/4 of the way through :/

She came off as very judgemental when talking about her clients, there is a way to convey interesting and exciting tidbits without it smacking of ‘holier than thou' mentality

sigh just because the author is Japanese does not mean that she can speak for all of Japan/Japanese culture

Odd mix of ‘no-nonsense' tone with treating inanimate objects with more respect than living beings (not exactly, but it's just a slightly odd concept to this American, at least the degree to which she seemed to take it, or it came off as a bouncing between two stereotypes)

Smacks of (middle)class privilege

Sometimes hard to visualize the concept she was talking about. Did the print version have diagrams, pictures, etc.? Well, I have ‘Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up' in my to-read stack.

Likes:
Well organized (duh). Liked that it was systematic/hierarchical.

Is supportive and encouraging of the one attempting to change

At times is very straightforward

Some great ideas

Comes off as a real person (in part because of her mixed tone)

Made me question certain concepts (such as not having to keep most documentation, which goes against my teachings, haha)

At the end, especially when she was talking about greeting the house(s), I thought that this might make a good manga, then there would be diagrams/drawings to show things, and in an odd way might make the mixed tone more credible.