The Marie Kondo effect on thrift stores: 'Some people give us stuff that isn’t very useful. We aren’t a place for people to just dump their rubbish.”
On a recent gray day, Ann Curtis loaded up the back of her station wagon with bric-a-brac, eager to reclaim her house after the youngest of her three daughters left for college. “I’m smitten with the Kondo bug,” she said, referring to the decluttering guru Marie Kondo. “I’m desperate to get in the loft, the shed, the garage and sort, sort, sort.”
Included in her haul: family games that hadn’t been played in years, handbags past their prime, shoes, ornaments and bedding.Tidiness guru Marie Kondo shares her tips on how to declutter your children’s artwork. Photo: Emily Prapuolenis/The Wall Street Journal.
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