'Tidying Up With Marie Kondo' has Twitter obsessed with cleaning

How do you know if your socks spark joy?
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Organizing deity Marie Kondo's new Netflix show, Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, debuted just in time for New Year's resolution anxiety season. Now, instead of worrying about doing Dry January, we can worry about doing Dry January and completing a taxing deep clean of our homes.

I'm still watching the show, though, and it's delightful. Kondo is funny, compassionate, and comforting to watch, and Tidying Up certainly meets the "transformation" requirement we've come to expect from lifestyle-centric reality TV.

By the looks of Twitter, I'm not the only one who's binge-watching. A lot of people, brimming with New Year's enthusiasm, are trying out the KonMari method -- keeping only items that "spark joy" -- for themselves. Others are just tweeting jokes about it, but that's useful too. If we only look at good tweets, it's like we're KonMari-ing Twitter.

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Chloe was the shopping editor at Mashable. She was also previously a culture reporter. You can follow her on Twitter at @chloebryan.

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