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Marie Kondo has decided now that she has 3 kids, that whole clean house with nothing unessential thing does not work any more.

Yet another elegant idea crashing on the rocks that are parenthood:

The year was 2019 and the world was gripped with a need to neaten. The premiere of Tidying Up With Marie Kondo on Netflix inspired a wave of home organizing and de-cluttering so rabid that thrift stores became overwhelmed by the number of donations people were dropping off.

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But now it’s 2023. A lot has happened in the world since the pre-covid days of yore. And if your once perfectly catalogued dresser drawers aren’t so neat anymore, you’re not alone. In fact, you’re in good company with this Gizmodo writer and with the queen of clean, Kondo herself.

“Up until now, I was a professional tidier, so I did my best to keep my home tidy at all times,” she said via interpreter in a recent media webinar, as reported by the Washington Post. More recently though, “I have kind of given up on that,” she noted. And declared, “my home is messy,” in no uncertain terms.

Kondo gave birth to her third child in 2021, and has seemingly been re-evaluating her priorities since. She said she’s abandoned peak organization “in a good way.” Instead of dedicating endless hours to ensuring her home is perfectly put together, “Now I realize what is important to me is enjoying spending time with my children at home.” To her, focusing on family over folding is time spent “the right way for me at this time, at this stage of my life.”

I have two kids, and two cats, and sometimes my house looks like Dresden as described by Kurt Vonnegut.