- " The gentle art of the Swedish Purge of Death : How to liberate yourself and your family, a jumble of life" - a book written by Margaret Magnusson's original Swedish book - shares with the world the Swedish practice of doping - cleansing the death.
- The Swedish cleaning is in a sense the anti Konmari- method . While Marie Kondo's cleaning method focuses on keeping things that will make you happy at the time , the purpose of this cleaning method is to keep only the things your friends and family members want when you're dead.
- I tried this extreme cleaning method and looked into boxes and boxes where I threw my things to "treat them later", cleaning tons of cupboards and drawers, and giving away some of my stuff. ,
- For the 23-year-old, whose belongings were shared between my New York home and my parents' home in Westchester, New York, it was a difficult task for me.
- I also found the cleanliness of death in Sweden at my age, as I still have no children or grandchildren. This is an important part of the whole process and an important part of my decision to follow certain assets.
- Although it is a practice that Magnusson herself writes, it will take a long time. It's just the beginning of my process that made me think about my business in a different way.
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The concept of Swedish death-cleaning is nothing new, but recently Margareta Magnusson, a woman between 80 and 100 years old in Sweden, has made her popular, she says.
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Magnusson wrote a book published in 2018 describing the Swedish practice of doping. Divide the term for those who do not speak Swedish: dö means death and städning means cleanliness.
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The concept is limited to preparing all our belongings for our own death and answering the question: "What happens to our business when we are dead?" Magnusson's book describes how he approaches Death Cleanup and gives tips on how to do it as effectively as possible.
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She wrote that the process will not be fast, and it certainly will not be easy, but it will make life easier for anyone who studies all of our things after we die. I know, a kind of morbidity, but also a kind of genius. "Take your time and move at a pace that's right for you," he wrote.
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She also gives a very seductive advice in her book: Think about it, we've all hidden this box deep in our cabinets or somewhere. If we do not want someone to find him during his lifetime, we do not want to be dragged out, so someone will find him when we're dead.
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I am someone who keeps everything, thanks to the gifts I will never use, except for the labels that I remove from my new clothes. When they asked me if I wanted to try this method of disruption, I knew that I had a lot to do.
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I started reading Magnusson's book from beginning to end. I took notes on topics that I found useful, things that I thought were particularly easy or difficult, and things that I had to do differently, because unlike Magnusson, I'm not nearly a century from Earth. - I am 24 years old.
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Magnusson suggests starting "sooner than later". That's because this can not be achieved on a rainy afternoon or possibly a week.
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If you clean a whole house, she suggests starting with the basement, attic or storage room around the entrance. She said that these places often have things that we do not even remember, and that she is not mistaken.
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Since I live in an apartment with two roommates, most of my "excesses", as Magnusson calls them, live with my parents. So I got into the Metro North and drove to the suburbs.
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When I moved to my apartment, I spent a lot of time getting rid of things that I no longer needed from my parents. But I have not done such a good job between you and me. Mostly only baskets, baskets and boxes were packed in containers, baskets and drawers - mostly out of sight. It was time to tackle less organized chaos.
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The next tip from Magnusson is probably the reason why I always need an endless suppressor and for which I've never achieved a condition without interference: he specifically warns against starting photos and letters.
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His reasoning is that it is easy to settle in memory. Photos are fun and emotional things to deal with. Every time I start with memories, I can not cleanse anything else. This time, I've done everything I can to stay away from albums and mailboxes.
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Another thing Magnusson mentions is the practice of giving things to family and friends when looking for his belongings. Offer something to a friend or family member: If they do not want it now, they do not want it when they're dead. So throw it away!
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It was against this background that I started with places in my room that I knew had everything neat. I do not think I opened my old bedside table for more than two years so everything could disappear.
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I opened it and found two bags, some plastic folders, a coloring book and the latest iPhone case.
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I threw the contents of the bags on my bed and found many old nail polishes, an old telephone that my father needed for me as a decoy abroad, colorful hair clips that I had bought for a spiritual day in the camp. Eight years ago and a case for the iPhone 5, I currently own an iPhone 8 Plus.
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Most of the paint I found was unusable ...
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... and this dead cell phone is not necessary.
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I split my loot into two piles: a stack of disposables and a pile of things that I would keep for myself or someone. I thought I would only put something in a "dungeon" stack if I knew exactly who I would give it to.
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I have kept this practice in the rest of my business, keeping only what I really wanted to use, or something that I knew someone else wanted. I did an art class at the university and bought a sketchbook. My mother is an artist, so I gladly took the extra drawing paper out of my hands. Success!
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On the pages of the sketchbook were old art projects he had made for the class. I've kept her, look at her! I think that's one of my best jobs.
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But I understand, they are not Picasso. Nobody will want to stick to them except me. So I looked again at my masterpieces and put them carefully in the trash.
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I continued with the papers found in shirts that contained all the old lifeguards certifications ...
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... It was great in the notes I took while listening to Randi Zuckerberg at Internet Week 2013 in New York, but at that time everything was 100% impossible.
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I also happened to find a cloth in one of the pockets of the shirt. I just wanted to throw it away when I noticed the pattern: a floral pattern inspired by Hawaii. I thought about what Magnussun had written about finding a new home, and I remembered how much my roommate loved that impression, and she sews it, so she's always looking for a new fabric. I called her and she gladly took it from my hands.
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Back in Manhattan, I also tried to attack the room in my apartment. Something that is very difficult for some: cough, cough, I have to start. There always seems to be a lot of things and I can not break everything. Magnusson recommends classifying documents into categories.
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She also suggested starting with the clothing category. Magnusson wrote: "Life becomes more comfortable and comfortable when we get rid of the abundance." I have learned this truth, but it is much easier to say what I should do.
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Growing up, I wore a uniform every day for eight weeks in the summer. Thinking about an outfit was not something I had to deal with everyday and make the morning easier. I just had to pick one color. There was no "surplus".
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Now I look at my wardrobe and the options overwhelm me. But I like fashion. I like having so many different things to adapt to all the environments, aesthetics, decades, and icons that I want to channel every day.
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Magnusson wrote that we should all take off our clothes and divide them into two piles: the first pile is for the clothes you want to keep; Two stack is for the clothes you want to get rid of.
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I feel a bit overwhelmed, so I knew I would not fly. Instead, I made drawer stacks per drawer. I thought it worked pretty well for me because I did not want to get rid of a few things in general, and I felt like I would not get rid of it so much.
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Every few months, my family donates a variety of clothes and shoes. When I moved into my apartment about eight months ago, I donated everything that I knew I did not use anymore. But I also put a lot into the loft and the basement of my parents: The bag we see here is full of things I have not used for years and which I only have to give.
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Of course I want to keep all my favorite clothes so that my hypothetical daughter can use them someday. Since the keyword is "hypothetical," I can not ask you which of my things you want, as Magnusson suggests.
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But that brings me to an important discovery of Death Cleaning in Sweden: if you do that at 23, you will not lose as much as you, maybe at 80. This is because the people you want to communicate do not exist yet.
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Much of my wardrobe is now from the clothes my mother kept when she was growing up. Working in fashion, she has acquired many unique pieces and fortunately for me all keep. I can safely say that about 75% of the clothes that accompany me are at least 30 years old and found on those shelves in my basement.
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Meanwhile, I will continue to keep the parts that I believe will last. But there are things that I can better get rid of, like all the usual clothes that do not suit me. I have jeans in the waist that cover a selection of 6 sizes. I hold those who do not go because they can go one day. But I did not integrate properly into some of them for many years, so it's time to break up. I got rid of three couples!
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Madewell, a denim company, offers buyers $ 20 off the next Madewell jeans for any older pair of jeans offered in the Blue Jeans Go Green ™ jeans recycling program. I have used this reduction in the past and thought it would be a good time to repeat it.
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I bring this pile of jeans to the store and when I need a new pair, I have the old people pay to buy it.
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Magnusson stresses that it's not about having lots of clothes; It's more what you can do with the clothes you have. This philosophy should ideally result in a naked wardrobe. But in the era of Leandra Medine's deterrence of men and the stimulation of personal style, I could walk with any seemingly ridiculous combination of my clothes, and someone would think he looks very good.
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In addition to the Swedish cleaning I add another level of organization for my clothes: the coordination of colors. I've organized my closet that way before, and honestly, I really like it. I also released some things that way. If I go further into the blue area and have a certain shirt, it's probably time that this shirt disappears.
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If you can get rid of many things, Sweden has a lot to learn about cleansing the dead. I have learned what my personal weaknesses are when it comes to creating chaos, and with what things I have built a personal connection over time, whether I collect these objects or leave them. just stack
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A section of the book entitled "Collections, Collectors, and Accumulators" really looks at this aspect of the accumulation of goods. Magnusson writes that there are important differences between the collection of objects collected in our homes, the active and intentional collection of items such as coins or stamps, and the perceived compulsion to receive items regardless of their value.
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As I grew up, I saw that my older brothers were deliberately building collections of things. A collector of movie tickets, put them in a wallet and everything, and the other collector of golf balls had a whole installation dedicated to them. They also had a small collection of glasses, so I thought when I was in high school, I thought I should join. I would buy shot glasses at airports and souvenir shops. But they did not mean anything to me, that's why I threw them a few months ago.
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I tried to collect a lot of things, but I wanted to * compile * something, not necessarily the theme of the collection. But then I found inspiration in other places.
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My mother collected these Limited Edition tote bags at Bloomingdale, which were designed for events they would celebrate while working for the company. That collection meant something to her then, and I love to see her now. My first university internship was my first foray into the world of fashion and writing. I created my own collection.
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I have a lot of backups from Harper's BAZAAR magazine. I took some with me because I liked the blanket or an article in it. Others have a memory: the first number I helped with, a photo session I visited, or a gift from one of the editors.
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I have batteries and piles of old magazines in my closet. Most come from the bazaar, some have my own published writings and others are just magazines that I wanted to write someday. I decided to check them and remove those that mean nothing to me.
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I started with the Magnusson pile method. I made three piles: keep going because I love them, keep doing that because I write and throw.
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In the end, I only got rid of a handful of magazines that I simply could not separate. The number on the left is the number of my favorite magazine of all time.
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From magazines I switched to other small baskets and garbage baskets. I threw old notes of the course ...
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... Course registration courses ...
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... big plastic bags and sealable, in which I kept my shoes ...
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... and the vitamin sacs and Advil that I kept in every corner of every bag, because you never know when you'll need it!
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Another challenge I encountered on my journey was that I had hidden small notes and letters in those areas. It's not like everyone is in a shoe box in the back of my closet. After all, organizing is one of the reasons why it is important to clarify.
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So making a backup of your notes and photos for the end was not so easy as it seems, but the good thing is that I've made quick decisions about what I've found. Everything I've saved from a grandfather or a member of my family, everything I've read for the last time, I appreciated it for what it was, then threw it away. like Magnussun, before she throws papers in the shredder.
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When browsing my mailboxes ...
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... and all my photo albums will take a long time. But as I look through them, I'll look at the cleaning practices to death and look at the pictures my family would like to see and the ones I probably do not want.
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Magnusson also has a complete section in the books. She writes that we should only keep books that we have not read or intend to read. Everything else can be given or given. But my approach to books is a bit different.
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I like what some of them look like and what memories they have. When I moved into my apartment, I looked through all the books on my bookshelf, most of which were children's books, and I let them go. But I have kept something for the memories and the inspiration.
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In the end, I let go of three jeans, six magazines, a collection of pointless shot glasses, all the schoolwork and shopping notes no one should have, and I cut my make-up container in half.
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What I liked best about this method is Magnussun's concept of a "jet box": a box with verbatim content that makes sense for her, but that she wants to discard from her relatives. Do not even bother. over after his death. At the moment I have a lot of things to do in a box, but I will definitely keep this idea.
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Without knowing it then, I also became a victim of the cleansing of death during my childhood, even though my family is not Swedish and we do not call them "purity of death". It's more like my grandparents want to download their material about us so they can see how we like it, and let's face it, make room in their homes. Although the gifts are sometimes arbitrary, sometimes they are very important, like this recipe book that my grandmother just gave me.
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While this whole Swedish cleaning process certainly requires a deep breath (or seven) and a glass of wine, I do not hate the experience as usual when my mother asks me to get rid of certain things. After all, Magnusson has a point: "Do not pick up things you do not want," he writes. "Someone has to deal with it sometime."
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