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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
Warranties are only used once a year if at all. What point is there in carefully sorting and separating them when the odds that they will be needed are so low?
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Care Low Need Point Separate
If you are going to buy clothes, choose them with the intention of welcoming them into your home and caring for them.
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Care Clothes Home Intention Welcome
To throw away what you no longer need is neither wasteful nor shameful.
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Away Need Shame Waste
If you live with your family, first clearly define separate storage spaces for each family member.
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Definition Family Live Space Storage
Taking good care of your things leads to taking good care of yourself.
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Care Goodness Leadership Yourself
Cherish the things you love. Cherish yourself.
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Cherish Love Yourself
Just because you dispose of something does not mean you give up past experiences or your identity.
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Dispose Experience Identity Past
Clutter is caused by a failure to return things to where they belong.
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Clutter Deep Failure
Never discard anything without saying thank you and good-bye.
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Goodbye Leave Thankful
I recommend you dispose of anything that does not fall into one of three categories: currently in use, needed for a limited period of time, or must be kept indefinitely.
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Category Limitation Recommend Time
In Japan, we say that words make our reality. The words we see and with which we come into contact tend to bring about events of the same nature.
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Contact Nature Ourselves Reality Word
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
We amass material things for the same reason that we eat—to satisfy a craving. Buying on impulse and eating and drinking to excess are attempts to alleviate stress.
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Material Reason Satisfaction Stress
Be sure to completely finish the first task before starting the next.
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Complete Start Task
When your room is clean and uncluttered, you have no choice but to examine your inner state.
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Choice Cleaning Examination Room State

Believe what your heart tells you when you ask, Does this spark joy?

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