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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

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
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
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
Don’t forget that the god of tidying up is always on your side as long as you are committed to getting it done.
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Commitment Forget God Yourself
When deciding how to spend your time, remember: Don’t trade an activity you’d love to pursue for a reward you don’t value.
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Activity Decision Pursue Remember Reward Time Value
Never, ever tie up your stockings. Never, ever ball up your socks. ―Marie Kondo
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Clothes Tying Yourself
A joy-filled home is like your own personal art museum
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Art Happiness Museum Personal Room
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
Storage, after all, is the sacred act of choosing a home for my belongings.
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Home Sacred Storage
No matter how wonderful things used to be, we cannot live in the past. The joy and excitement we feel here and now are more important.
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Excitement Important Live Past Wonderful
Never discard anything without saying thank you and good-bye.
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Goodbye Leave Thankful
Clutter also adversely affects health. According to a study by scientists at UCLA, being surrounded by too many things increases cortisol levels, a primary stress hormone.
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Adversity Affect Clutter Health Hormone Level Primary Stress
The meaning of a photo lies in the excitement and joy you feel when taking it.
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Excitement Feeling Meaning Photo
To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. To throw away what you no longer need is neither wasteful nor shameful.
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Cherish Important Purpose Shame Wasted Yourself
The true purpose of a present is to be received.
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Present Purpose True

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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