Swedish Death Cleaning

Swedish Death Cleaning

Swedish Death Cleaning Explained

A kind gift you give while you’re still here. If the phrase Swedish Death Cleaning makes you flinch a little, you are not alone. It sounds morbid. It isn’t. It also isn’t the only name for what we are about to talk about. I have started calling it Next Life Chapter Preparations — same idea,

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50 Good Reasons to Let Go of Stuff

50 Good Reasons to Let Go of Stuff

Sorted into seven honest categories. Less weight. More room. More life. I had boxes of Lego. Wonderful stuff — decades’ worth, complicated builds, the kind of detail only a kid with too much time will commit to. They sat in storage for twenty years or so. Then I gave them to some kids who lit

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Could books be part of your legacy?

Could books be part of your legacy?

I read about one or two books per month. That works out to roughly eighteen a year, or 180 a decade. Over an adult reading lifetime, somewhere between two thousand and three thousand books, all in. It is not a whole lot, when you put it that way. Time is rather strict about how many

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How to tackle your book collection

How to Tackle Your Book Collection (Without Regret)

Smart Reduction™ for the shelves, the stacks, and the “I’ll read it someday” pile. I have about four hundred books in my home. Some are read. Some are not. A few are read three times. A handful are in German. One or two are signed. One is Fifty Years of Motorized Flying — a book

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Clutternomics™ The Economics of What We Keep**

Clutternomics™ — The Economics of What We Keep

Five honest lenses for deciding what stays — and what moves on. I moved countries twice in my life. Germany to Luxembourg, Luxembourg to the United States. Each time I learned the same thing rather plainly: holding on to things is expensive, in ways most of us never bother to add up. When you move

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The Sad Tale of Mr. D’s Passing

What Got Lost When Mr. D Passed

The dumpster was 40 yards. The stories that went with him were uncountable. Both were preventable. I would like to tell you about my friend, Mr. D. I am using his initial out of respect for his privacy. The story is otherwise true, and I think about it more often than I expected to. Mr.

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