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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?

Marie Kondo

It’s far more important to adorn your home with the things you love than to keep it so bare it lacks anything that brings you joy.
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Happiness Home Important Joy Yourself
Believe what your heart tells you when you ask, Does this spark joy?
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Believe Happiness Heart Myself
Only you can know what kind of environment makes you feel happy.
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Environment Feeling Happiness Kind Yourself
You could say that tidying orders the mind while cleaning purifies it.
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Cleaning Mindset Order Purity
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
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
Cherish the things you love. Cherish yourself.
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Cherish Love Yourself
Your real life begins after putting your house in order.
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Beginning Home Life Order Reality Yourself
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
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
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
Follow your intuition and all will be well.
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Follow Health Intuition Willing
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
Being surrounded by things that bring joy makes you happy
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Happiness Joy Surround Yourself
Tidying is the act of confronting yourself.
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Act Yourself
Tidying is just a tool, not the final destination. The true goal should be to establish the lifestyle you want most once your house has been put in order.
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Destination Establishment Goal Order True

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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