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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.

Marie Kondo

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
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
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
Believe what your heart tells you when you ask, Does this spark joy?
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Believe Happiness Heart Myself
Never, ever tie up your stockings. Never, ever ball up your socks. ―Marie Kondo
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Clothes Tying Yourself
Storage, after all, is the sacred act of choosing a home for my belongings.
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Home Sacred Storage
Putting your house in order is the magic that creates a vibrant and happy life.
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Creation Happiness Home Life Magic Order
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
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
The ultimate secret of success is this: If you tidy up in one shot, rather than little by little, you can dramatically change your mindset.
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Change Drama Mindset Secret Shot Ultimate Yourself
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
Just because you dispose of something does not mean you give up past experiences or your identity.
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Dispose Experience Identity Past
I recommend you dispose of anything that does not fall into one of three categories: currently in use, needed for a limited period of time, or must be kept indefinitely.
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Category Limitation Recommend Time
The best method is to experiment and enjoy the process.
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Best Enjoyment Experiment Method Process
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
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

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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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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