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If you are going to buy clothes, choose them with the intention of welcoming them into your home and caring for them.

Marie Kondo

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
Clutter is caused by a failure to return things to where they belong.
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Clutter Deep Failure
But when we really delve into the reasons for why we can’t let something go, there are only two: an attachment to the past or a fear for the future.
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Attachment Fear Future Past Reason
Many people have equated my tidying method with minimalism, but it’s quite different.
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Different Equation Minimalism Myself People Quite
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
It is only when you put your house in order that your furniture and decorations come to life.
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Decoration Furniture Home Life Order
All you need to do is take the time to sit down and examine each item you own, decide whether you want to keep or discard it, and then choose where to put what you keep.
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Choice Decision Discard Need Time Yourself
The lives of those who tidy thoroughly and completely, in a single shot, are without exception dramatically altered.
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Complete Drama Exception Live
Tidy a little a day and you’ll be tidying forever.
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Cleaning Day Forever Yourself
Letting go is even more important than adding.
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Add Important Let Go One Liner Yourself
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
Clutter has only two possible causes: too much effort is required to put things away or it is unclear where things belong.
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Clear Effort Possible Reason
People who can’t stay tidy can be categorized into just three types: ‘the can’t throw it away type’, ‘the can’t put it back type’, and ‘the first-two-combined’ type.
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Category People Type
Storage, after all, is the sacred act of choosing a home for my belongings.
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Home Sacred Storage
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
I begin my course with these words: Tidying is a special event. Don’t do it every day.
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Beginning Course Day Myself

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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