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Donation charities from around Australia have today criticised Japanese ‘tidying’ expert Marie Kondo for the increase in useless shit being dumped in front of their clothing bins.
Kondo has written four books on organizing, which have collectively sold millions of copies and have been translated into over 20 languages. In particular, her book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, was one of the biggest selling books of 2018 – following the release of her new Queer-Eye-Style tidying up show on Netflix.
As Australian households begin decluttering post Christmas, to make room for the new juicers and other household items that were received as presents, the old junk is being left sprawled out front of St Vinnies and Salvos.
“This is becoming a problem for us” says Sister Angela, a local nun at the Betoota St Vincent de Pauls centre.
“Look, we get it. Hoarding is Australia’s fastest growing mental illness. And there’s no better way to combat that then with some Japanese discipline… “
“But why on Earth does anyone think we want a broken pop corn machine?”
“Or a faded rip-off ACDC t-shirt with white sweat stains in the arm pits?”
However, one positive that has come from the Marie Kondo is influx of trendy 90s patterned shirts, who are being donated to St Vinnies by overweight suburban dads and scooped up by hipster skateboarders for 500% the original price at the op shop.
“Don’t ask me why” said Sister Angela.
“Fashion is impossible to understand working at an op shop”
