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Two TIME for Kids reporters ask organization guru, Marie Kondo, how they can make their lives a little neater._  by [Lucy Feldman](https://time.com/author/lucy-feldman/)  ## Lucy Feldman Editorial Director Nov 16, 2017 4:24 PM UTC Two TIME for Kids reporters ask organization guru, Marie Kondo, how they can make their lives a little neater.  by [Lucy Feldman](https://time.com/author/lucy-feldman/)  ## Lucy Feldman Editorial Director Nov 16, 2017 4:24 PM UTC As a child, [Marie Kondo](http://motto.time.com/4178119/marie-kondo-journaling/?iid=sr-link1) always gravitated toward tidying. When her teacher called for volunteers to organize a classroom shelf, she yearned for the job (as the only volunteer, she landed the gig). But not all kids have an innate devotion to keeping their spaces clean. Kondo, one of the world’s foremost [experts on home organization](https://konmari.com/education/online-course/) and author of the mega-bestseller [_The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up_](https://www.amazon.com/Life-Changing-Magic-Tidying-Decluttering-Organizing/dp/1607747308/?tag=mottocom-20), stopped by our offices to meet with TIME For Kids reporters Alexa and Cameron, 14 and 13, and answer their questions about folding t-shirts and sweatshirts, organizing their book bags and keeping their moms off their backs. “My mom always tells me to clean my room, and it drives me crazy,” Cameron says. “How can you make tidying up fun?” Imagine your ideal lifestyle and think about how your room can help you attain it, Kondo suggests. Start with the objects that surround you: “Look at the items and decide for yourself whether they actually make you happy – whether they spark joy.” ## Transcript [00:00] So can you show me how to fold these and put them in the [00:03] box? Okay. [ MUSIC ] My [00:12] mom always tells me to clean my room And it drives me [00:14] crazy. How can you make tidying up fun? The ideal [00:19] thing to do is to actually look at what kind of life you want to [00:23] lead, look at the room, and then decide how you can make [00:26] that happen for yourself. So when you look at everything [00:29] that you have, then you actually look at the items, and then [00:31] decide for yourself, whether that actually makes you happy, [00:34] whether it sparks joy. Are American kids messier than [00:38] Japanese kids? If so, why? So [00:44] I think kids can be messy in their own way no matter where [00:47] you go, whether it's in Japan or America. But I think one [00:51] thing that I do notice is that American kids seem to have a [00:53] lot of small toys. So something to think about is that you [00:56] might have a lot of Toys and think about organizing those [00:58] things. Do you think you could help me organize my [01:02] backpack? Well the first thing we have to do then [01:06] is to take out everything in your backpack. [ MUSIC ] [01:13] [ FOREIGN ] [01:21] It's very important to take every single thing that's in your [01:24] backpack out, and if you're cleaning your room too, you [01:26] would do the same thing. [ FOREIGN ] Now that we have [01:30] everything laid out here, we are going to start looking at [01:33] every single item and decide whether you really need to [01:36] bring it [01:42] with you today. [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] Okay. So [01:50] now that you can see, you can see this pile which actually [01:53] shows you all the things that you do need and that sparks [01:56] joy for you, and then there's the other things that maybe [01:59] you don't need today. Maybe it doesn't spark joy for you [02:01] immediately and now that you can actually see everything, [02:05] you can decide for yourself and think about what is actually [02:08] important. For you. [02:14] [ FOREIGN ] One important thing, as we start putting things [02:16] back, is to put them stacked in a way that you can see what [02:20] exactly is inside your bag. [02:24] [ MUSIC ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [02:28] [ FOREIGN ] This is how [02:35] we clean the inside of your backpack. 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