In Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, star Marie Kondo manages to take cluttered homes and turn them into living spaces worthy of Pinterest. It's almost like magic, but the spark doesn't fade when Kondo and the cameras leave. In fact, Good Morning America actually reached out to several of the families from the show to see if they were able to maintain the organizational systems they had set up with Kondo.
One of the homeowners, Margie Hodge, told GMA that tidying up refreshed her life in the best way. "I was thinking of how much money people spend on a vacation to get away from it all, but if you want to make a life-altering change, rather than a week in Mexico, where you come home and have it all to deal with still, to have your house organized like I did, it's life-altering," she told GMA. She added, "The whole house feels a little lighter."
GMA spoke to three families in total, and, while the first season of Tidying Up With Marie Kondo featured eight episodes with eight different clients, it still seems clear that Kondo's method works long-term.