Marie Kondo Was the World’s Most Organized Person. Then She Had Her Third Kid.

I had big plans for my video interview with lifestyle influencer and tidiness guru Marie Kondo. The view of my home office would be immaculate; the stacks of old reporter’s notebooks would move to the great beyond (the trash), the gag-gift bobblehead of Andrew Cuomo would go to its forever home (the trash), and the clean laundry hanging off my husband’s office chair would migrate to its rightful place (a pile on the bed). I would find one single item of clothing to wear that wasn’t wrinkled. For this one 30-minute interview, I vowed, I would transform into a tidy person.