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Many people have equated my tidying method with minimalism, but it’s quite different.

Marie Kondo

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
People who use the KonMari Method never revert to clutter again.
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Clutter Method People
Never, ever tie up your stockings. Never, ever ball up your socks. ―Marie Kondo
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Clothes Tying Yourself
Storage, after all, is the sacred act of choosing a home for my belongings.
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Home Sacred 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
Being surrounded by things that bring joy makes you happy
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Happiness Joy Surround Yourself
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
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 real life begins after putting your house in order.
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Beginning Home Life Order Reality Yourself
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
A joy-filled home is like your own personal art museum
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Art Happiness Museum Personal 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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Awareness Important Lifestyle Person Perspective Segregation
You could say that tidying orders the mind while cleaning purifies it.
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Cleaning Mindset Order Purity
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
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
Many people have equated my tidying method with minimalism, but it’s quite different.
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Different Equation Minimalism Myself People Quite

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