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Therefore, storage should reduce the effort needed to put things away, not the effort needed to get them out.

Marie Kondo

The real tragedy is to live your entire life without anything that brings you joy and never even realize it.
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Happiness Life Reality Realize Tragedy
Although we can get to know ourselves better by sitting down and analyzing our characteristics or by listening to others’ perspectives on us, I believe that tidying is the best way.
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Analyze Better Character Myself Perspective Way
The essence of effective storage is this: designate a spot for every last thing you own.
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Design Essence Storage 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
We may think that we have stored things to suit our behavior, but usually we have unconsciously adjusted our actions to match where things are stored.
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Action Behavior Store Thinking Unconscious
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
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
People who use the KonMari Method never revert to clutter again.
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Clutter Method People
The best method is to experiment and enjoy the process.
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Best Enjoyment Experiment Method Process
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
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
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
Reducing the amount of stuff in our space also reduces the amount of dust, and we actually clean more often.
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Cleaning Reduce Space
Our parents demanded that we clean up our rooms, but they too, had never been trained in how to do that. When it comes to tidying, we are all self-taught.
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Cleaning Demand Ourselves Parents Teaching Training
You could say that tidying orders the mind while cleaning purifies it.
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Cleaning Mindset Order Purity

Therefore, storage should reduce the effort needed to put things away, not the effort needed to get them out.

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