Marie Kondo

English

Verb

Marie Kondo (third-person singular simple present Marie Kondoes or Marie Kondos or Marie Kondo's, present participle Marie Kondo-ing or Marie Kondo'ing or Marie Kondoing, simple past and past participle Marie Kondo'd or Marie Kondo-ed or Marie Kondo'ed or Marie Kondoed)

1. Alternative form of Kondo
   • 2018, Chelsea Fagan, Lauren Ver Hage, quoting Stephanie Georgopulos, The Financial Diet: A Total Beginner’s Guide to Getting Good with Money, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:

     I’m not off the side-hustle market, but I’m a lot more selective now. I kind of Marie Kondo’ed my side hustles—[…]

   • 2019, Helen Ellis, Southern Lady Code, Doubleday, →ISBN:

     I gave away my Mr. Kotter wig when you Marie Kondo’d the apartment.

   • 2019 January 26, Bethany Jean Clement, Bradenton Herald, volume 97, number 134, page 10D:

     MARIE KONDO'ING MY KITCHEN: What a food writer learned from a total pantry re-org with a food-waste expert

   • 2019 February 18, Gina Dempster, “Making the house work”, in Otago Daily Times‎^[1]:

     New Zealand comedian Tom Sainsbury does a great "Joanna Marie Kondoes the house" on Facebook, which includes shedding tears over the joy sparked by her old dish scrubber from the back of the cupboard.

   • 2019 March 2, Dana Gee, “Fresh New Books to Welcome the Season”, in Vancouver Sun, page C3:

     If you have finished Marie Kondoing the heck out of your house and made some room on your bookshelves, it only seems right to welcome the life-giving spring season with a fresh shot of reading material.

   • 2020, Katie Fforde, A Springtime Affair, Century, Penguin Random House, →ISBN:

     She Marie Kondoed all the woven things I’ve given her over the years!

   • 2020, Laura Jensen Walker, Murder Most Sweet: A Bookish Baker Mystery, Crooked Lane Books, The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC, →ISBN:

     Cute place, but way too cluttered. You need to do some Marie Kondo–ing.

   • 2022, Louise Welsh, The Second Cut, Canongate Books, →ISBN:

     Les had Marie Kondo-ed his small kitchen too.

   • 2022, Catherine Wilkins, chapter 7, in You’re Not the Boss of Me!, Nosy Crow, →ISBN:

     I’m Marie Kondo-ing the kitchen so no one else gets injured.