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When your room is clean and uncluttered, you have no choice but to examine your inner state.

Marie Kondo

Reducing the amount of stuff in our space also reduces the amount of dust, and we actually clean more often.
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Cleaning Reduce Space
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
Through the process of selecting only those things that inspire joy, you can identify precisely what you love and what you need.
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Happiness Identify Need Process Selection Yourself
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
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
To throw away what you no longer need is neither wasteful nor shameful.
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Away Need Shame Waste
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
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
Our parents demanded that we clean up our rooms, but they too, had never been trained in how to do that. When it comes to tidying, we are all self-taught.
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Cleaning Demand Ourselves Parents Teaching Training
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
Be sure to completely finish the first task before starting the next.
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Complete Start Task
Tidying is the act of confronting yourself.
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Act Yourself
You could say that tidying orders the mind while cleaning purifies it.
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Cleaning Mindset Order Purity
People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.
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Book Collection Learning People
Believe what your heart tells you when you ask, Does this spark joy?
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Believe Happiness Heart Myself
We live in this moment. Who you are now is more important than memories of your past. Be good to yourself.
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Goodness Important Live Memories Moments Past Yourself

When your room is clean and uncluttered, you have no choice but to examine your inner state.

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