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Taking good care of your things leads to taking good care of yourself.

Marie Kondo

Storage, after all, is the sacred act of choosing a home for my belongings.
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Home Sacred Storage
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
I’m sure most of us have been scolded for not tidying up our rooms, but how many of our parents consciously taught us how to tidy as part of our upbringing?
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Childhood Cleaning Habit Ourselves Parents Room
You could say that tidying orders the mind while cleaning purifies it.
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Cleaning Mindset Order Purity
Tidying orders and relaxes the mind.
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Mindset Order Relax
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
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
Letting go is even more important than adding.
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Add Important Let Go One Liner Yourself
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
Clutter is caused by a failure to return things to where they belong.
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Clutter Deep Failure
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
Your real life begins after putting your house in order.
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Beginning Home Life Order Reality Yourself
People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.
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Book Collection Learning People
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
I believe that tidying is a celebration, a special send-off for those things that will be departing from the house, and therefore I dress accordingly.
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Believe Celebration Home Myself
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

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