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If you live with your family, first clearly define separate storage spaces for each family member.

Marie Kondo

There is no need to buy dividers or any other gadget. You can solve your storage problems with things you already have in the house. The most common item I use is an empty shoebox.
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Empty Home Minimalism Need Purchase 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
In Japan, we say that words make our reality. The words we see and with which we come into contact tend to bring about events of the same nature.
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Contact Nature Ourselves Reality Word
Tidying your physical space allows you to tend to your psychological space.
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Allow Physical Space Yourself
The best method is to experiment and enjoy the process.
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Best Enjoyment Experiment Method Process
A joy-filled home is like your own personal art museum
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Art Happiness Museum Personal Room
Activity clutter comes from the things we do that take up precious time and sap our energy but don’t make a meaningful difference to our personal, professional, or even company’s mission.
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Activity Clutter Company Difference Energy Meaning Mission Personal Precious Professional Time
Only you can know what kind of environment makes you feel happy.
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Environment Feeling Happiness Kind Yourself
Being surrounded by things that bring joy makes you happy
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Happiness Joy Surround Yourself
The true purpose of a present is to be received.
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Present Purpose True
No matter how wonderful things used to be, we cannot live in the past. The joy and excitement we feel here and now are more important.
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Excitement Important Live Past Wonderful
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
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
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
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
Never, ever tie up your stockings. Never, ever ball up your socks. ―Marie Kondo
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Clothes Tying Yourself
Clutter is caused by a failure to return things to where they belong.
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Clutter Deep Failure
People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.
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Book Collection Learning People
Cherish the things you love. Cherish yourself.
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Cherish Love Yourself
One reason so many of us never succeed at tidying is because we have too much stuff.
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Cleaning Reason Success
I begin my course with these words: Tidying is a special event. Don’t do it every day.
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Beginning Course Day Myself
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
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
The purpose of a letter is fulfilled the moment it is received.
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Fulfill Letter Moments Purpose Recieve
Don’t forget that the god of tidying up is always on your side as long as you are committed to getting it done.
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Commitment Forget God Yourself
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

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