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A person’s awareness and perspective on his or her own lifestyle are far more important than any skill at sorting, storing, or whatever.

Marie Kondo

Therefore, storage should reduce the effort needed to put things away, not the effort needed to get them out.
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Effort Need Reduce Storage
Tidy a little a day and you’ll be tidying forever.
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Cleaning Day Forever Yourself
Taking good care of your things leads to taking good care of yourself.
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Care Goodness Leadership Yourself
Discard first, store later.
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Discard Store Throw
To quietly work away at disposing of your own excess is actually the best way of dealing with a family that doesn’t tidy.
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Best Dispose Family Quiet Way Work
One reason so many of us never succeed at tidying is because we have too much stuff.
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Cleaning Reason Success
I have yet to see a house that lacked sufficient storage. The real problem is that we have far more than we need or want.
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Home Need Problem Reality Storage
In essence, tidying ought to be the act of restoring balance among people, their possessions, and the house they live in.
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Act Balance Essence Home Live People Possession Restore
When people revert to clutter no matter how much they tidy, it is not their room or their belongings but their way of thinking that is at fault.
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Mindset People Room Thinking
Many people have equated my tidying method with minimalism, but it’s quite different.
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Different Equation Minimalism Myself People Quite
Human beings can only truly cherish a limited number of things at one time. As I am both lazy and forgetful, I can’t take proper care of too many things.
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Care Cherish Forget Limitation Myself True
To throw away what you no longer need is neither wasteful nor shameful.
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Away Need Shame Waste
Clutter is caused by a failure to return things to where they belong.
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Clutter Deep Failure
Start with clothes, then move on to books, papers, komono (miscellany), and finally things with sentimental value.
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Book Clothes Emotion Paper Start Value
Your past will become a weight that holds you back and keeps you from living in the here and now. To put things in order means to put your past in order, too.
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Hold Live Order Past Weight Yourself
I’m sure most of us have been scolded for not tidying up our rooms, but how many of our parents consciously taught us how to tidy as part of our upbringing?
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Childhood Cleaning Habit Ourselves Parents Room

A person’s awareness and perspective on his or her own lifestyle are far more important than any skill at sorting, storing, or whatever.

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