Marie Kondo is the author of the book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, and the star of the Netflix show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. She has become an international guru for cleaning up and finding joy while doing it. She preaches expressing gratitude for possessions that you wish to keep, as well as ones you do not need anymore.

From the time the show came to Netflix, I had been dying to try it and experience some of the joy around which the concept was built. The only problem was that I don’t own many things, so it was time to get creative.