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If you use the right method and concentrate your efforts on eliminating clutter thoroughly and completely within a short span of time, you’ll see instant results that will empower you to keep your space in order after.

Marie Kondo

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
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
Cherish the things you love. Cherish yourself.
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Cherish Love Yourself
Therefore, storage should reduce the effort needed to put things away, not the effort needed to get them out.
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Effort Need Reduce Storage
Letting go is even more important than adding.
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Add Important Let Go One Liner Yourself
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
To quietly work away at disposing of your own excess is actually the best way of dealing with a family that doesn’t tidy.
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Best Dispose Family Quiet Way Work
As for you, pour your time and passion into what brings you the most joy, your mission in life.
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Happiness Life Mission Passion Time Yourself
Many people have equated my tidying method with minimalism, but it’s quite different.
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Different Equation Minimalism Myself People Quite
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
Don’t you think it is unnatural for us to possess things that don’t bring us joy or things that we don’t really need?
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Happiness Joy Need Possession Thinking Yourself
People who use the KonMari Method never revert to clutter again.
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Clutter Method People
Human beings can only truly cherish a limited number of things at one time. As I am both lazy and forgetful, I can’t take proper care of too many things.
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Care Cherish Forget Limitation Myself True
To throw away what you no longer need is neither wasteful nor shameful.
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Away Need Shame Waste
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
The essence of effective storage is this: designate a spot for every last thing you own.
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Design Essence Storage Yourself

If you use the right method and concentrate your efforts on eliminating clutter thoroughly and completely within a short span of time, you’ll see instant results that will empower you to keep your space in order after.

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If you use the right method and concentrate your efforts on eliminating clutter thoroughly and completely within a short span of time, you’ll see instant results that will empower you to keep your space in order after.

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