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If you have reduced your possessions but feel no joy at home, try gathering selected items that you really love in one spot to create your own special space.

Marie Kondo

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
Discard first, store later.
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Discard Store Throw
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
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
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
Storage, after all, is the sacred act of choosing a home for my belongings.
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Home Sacred Storage
One reason so many of us never succeed at tidying is because we have too much stuff.
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Cleaning Reason Success
Follow your intuition and all will be well.
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Follow Health Intuition Willing
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
Now imagine yourself living in a space that contains only things that spark joy. Isn’t this the lifestyle you dream of?
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Dreams Happiness Imagination Lifestyle Space Yourself
Believe what your heart tells you when you ask, Does this spark joy?
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Believe Happiness Heart Myself
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
Your storage space is your private paradise, so personalize it to the fullest.
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Paradise Privacy Space Storage 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
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

If you have reduced your possessions but feel no joy at home, try gathering selected items that you really love in one spot to create your own special space.

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If you have reduced your possessions but feel no joy at home, try gathering selected items that you really love in one spot to create your own special space.

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