If you cant keep track of your stuff, you have too much
Summary
- If you don't know where your things are, or how many they are, then there is no point in having them.
Details
- In Sweden, older people practicse dostadning, or 'death cleaning', where they deliberately get rid of stuff that is not useful to them.
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In Sweden this process goes by the name of dostadning. The literal translation is ‘death cleaning’, although according to Margaret Magnusson (who describes herself as somewhere between 80 and 100 years old) you don’t have to be in your final years to indulge in a bit of dostadning. ‘Death cleaning is not about dusting or mopping up,’ she writes in her surprisingly uplifting book, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, ‘it is about a permanent form of organization that makes your everyday life run more smoothly…The intention is not that we should remove things that make our lives pleasant and more comfortable. But if you can’t keep track of your things, then you know you have too much.’
Related
- Stuff I use vs stuff that I imagine I should be using
- Stop buying stuff - Niko Stoifberg
- Only have stuff that is useful or beautiful - William Morris
- Have a high joy-to-stuff ratio
- When you buy few things you make more effort to buy good quality stuff
- Minimalism
- Minimalist means clearing out what is not important so we have space to focus on what is.