Joy-sparking merch Marie Kondo, the Japanese organizing consultant who took over the world with her best-selling book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (and soon enough, an entire Netflix show about decluttering), has a new venture and it?s empty boxes.
Launched today, Hikidashi (meaning ?to draw out? in Japanese) box sets are intended to facilitate the KonMari Method of tidying?which says to throw out anything that doesn?t ?spark joy? and put the remaining items where they ought to be.
At a press preview earlier this month, Kondo spoke about finding that KonMari fans often have trouble completing the tidying process. Hikidashi boxes, which go up for preorder today and ship in September, are supposed to solve that by prompting people to decide what to keep and giving them a place to keep it. Make no mistake, these are fancy shoe boxes, based off Kondo?s own experience organizing clients? items with simple boxes like shoe boxes. But Kondo noticed that whereas a reusable box stash is common in Japanese homes, there?s no similar culture in the U.S. She talked about lugging her own collection of boxes to American clients. That collection has been depleted, so now she wants people to have their own supply.

Designed in California and made in China, the boxes are supposed to make whatever is put inside them feel ?happy.? They?re made of thick fiberboard with a smooth paper finish, and the interiors are lined with one of four unders...