Assessing how well items align with your core beliefs may make it easier to let them go.
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So Mum or Dad has died, or moved to aged care, and now you’ve got to pack up their house. It’s a huge job and you’re dreading it.
Long-term tidiness can require a consistent approach to keeping chaos at bay. But your possessions don’t have to control your life. New research is showing how tidy people maintain their homes.
Not everything needs to be Marie Kondo-ed just because it doesn’t ‘spark joy’. Ask yourself if there’s a less wasteful option.
These shows treat the symptoms of overconsumption but not the causes.
While the KonMari method will help many people declutter their houses and reassess what they really need, for people with clinical hoarding disorder the process is much more complicated.
Dumping your closet debris on a charity shop just means giving volunteers the cost of sorting out your landfill.
Clutter can make us feel stressed, anxious and depressed. It can also impact our ability to process information and connect with people. Here’s why.
Dostadning is the new pre-death decluttering trend, here’s what you need to know.
Decluttering, spearheaded by Marie Kondo and Japanese minimalist consumerism, has taken on quasi-spiritual connotations. What are we actually trying to get rid of when we throw out all our stuff?
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