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Not quite Swedish death-cleaning but -

Thursday, November 16, 2017 12:18

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At the moment we are busy chucking out masses of household clutter. Some of it goes to the charity shop, particularly large items of furniture, a few bits go to the auction and a fair bit goes to the tip.

A particular pain has been reams and reams of old paperwork such as bills, receipts and financial info we need not have saved in the first place. In fact we’ve been really radical this time – we’ve dumped the filing cabinet.

Altogether we’ve spent many happy hours clearing out the junk and still haven’t finished although I’d rather not compare it with Swedish death-cleaning which achieved media prominence back in October.

Swedish debut author Margareta Magnusson wants you to tidy your house and think about death.

It might sound like a rather gloomy way to spend a weekend, but Magnusson – who describes herself as “between 80 and 100 years old”, says she has spent the last 40 years cleaning her home in preparation for her death, and that she has “got a lot of pleasure out of it”.

The uniquely Swedish practice of ‘Döstädning’ (death-cleaning) is a method of decluttering based on which objects will be of value to loved ones after your death.

Crikey – we certainly haven’t spent the last 40 years cleaning our home in preparation for death. What a ghastly idea. A few days maybe, but this comment rings a bell.

“Today, people have enough jackets for a Siberian winter, and more shoes than a centipede could wear. When I was young it was completely different,” Magnusson told The Local. “When I grew up we didn’t really have brands, we didn’t have logos, we had, if we were lucky, just what we needed. People today, in developed countries, have much more than they need, and that becomes a problem in the end.“

Indeed – that’s the real problem – we have more than we need which is why we find ourselves chucking lots of it away every now and then. Oh well – time to throw some more paperwork on the fire.

Source: http://akhaart.blogspot.com/2017/11/not-quite-swedish-death-cleaning-but.html

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