Tidiness guru Marie Kondo has “given up” on being so tidy: Japanese organizational consultant Marie Kondo, who crafted a popular personal brand centered on tidiness, has put orderliness on the back burner following the birth of her third child, she told the Washington Post at a recent media webinar. Kondo shot to fame with best-selling books like The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and her hit Netflix show Tidying up with Marie Kondo. “Up until now, I was a professional tidier, so I did my best to keep my home tidy at all times,” she said. “I have kind of given up on that in a good way for me. Now I realize what is important to me is enjoying spending time with my children at home.”

And it’s only elevating her brand: By accident or design, Kondo’s revelation has served to make her more relatable, endearing her to supporters and fans, Fast Company writes. “Flaws are humanizing,” an entertainment strategist told the newspaper, saying that Kondo has essentially wielded a variant of the blemish effect, a marketing strategy whereby small problems are leveraged to underscore a product’s good qualities.

Kondo’s statement isn’t a malpractice of what she preaches: Her latest book, Marie Kondo Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life, is centered on the Japanese concept of Kurashi, which translates to “way of life.” It delineates how you can create routines that fill you with joy. “Tidying up means [coping] with all the ‘things’ in your life,” she writes in the book. For Kondo, this involves relishing time with her kids even if it means forgoing some tidiness.

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Are mummies museum-appropriate? Some art historians are arguing that human remains should never be on public display, the Telegraph reports. “The idea that we would ever have a body on display as an art object is something I think we need to sit with and question — why is that appropriate?” says art historian Alice Procter. This follows recent shifts in mummy language, such as the use of the term “mummified humans” and the elimination of imperialist descriptions on museum labels, which Procter believes should be a stepping stone towards the abolition of mummies entirely.

It’s a mixed bag of viewpoints: Still, some experts believe that mummy exhibitions offer an invaluable source of knowledge, providing information on the population data, biology, and funerary beliefs of ancient times. Daniel Antoine, a curator at the British Museum, cites the discovery of cardiovascular disease — which was thought to be a modern development — among some of the museum’s 140 mummies. Salima Ikram, professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, shares Antoine’s view, adding that “mummies are often [Egypt’s] best ambassadors abroad, and also our best teachers and educators about ancient Egypt.”