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Clutter has only two possible causes: too much effort is required to put things away or it is unclear where things belong.

Marie Kondo

Only you can know what kind of environment makes you feel happy.
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Environment Feeling Happiness Kind Yourself
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
The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.
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Life Live Question Yourself
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
If you want to meet a beautiful home that is just right for you, take good care of the one you live in now.
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Beautiful Care Goodness Home Live Right
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
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
A joy-filled home is like your own personal art museum
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Art Happiness Museum Personal Room
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
Being surrounded by things that bring joy makes you happy
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Happiness Joy Surround Yourself
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
Be sure to completely finish the first task before starting the next.
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Complete Start Task
The essence of effective storage is this: designate a spot for every last thing you own.
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Design Essence Storage 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
Your storage space is your private paradise, so personalize it to the fullest.
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Paradise Privacy Space Storage Yourself
Tidying your physical space allows you to tend to your psychological space.
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Allow Physical Space Yourself

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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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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