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dancingtongue · 80-89, M
A house and garage full of stuff I will never use again but haven't found the inclination to do Swedish Death Cleaning on yet. Actually started by giving books from my "library" this Christmas, but most of those were ones I had just finished reading this year that I thought the recipient would enjoy so it didn't even make a dent into the 4 bookcases and 35 boxes full stashed around. The boxes are what remained when I winnowed and downsized on moving into this house -- the ones I felt I had to keep because I might want to refer back to again. (An equal number of boxes got donated to the library.) Needless to say nary a one of those boxes has been opened in the 20 years I've been in this house.
Nimbus · M
@dancingtongue Awww, that's kinda sad.
Surely someone would take them from you?
Surely someone would take them from you?
dancingtongue · 80-89, M
@Nimbus Oh, the library still accepts donations for their second hand book store. The problem is my attachment, not lack of potential takers.
Queendragonfly · 31-35, F
@dancingtongue I'm Swedish but I have never heard of Swedish death cleaning , how does it differ from any other death cleaning??
dancingtongue · 80-89, M
@Queendragonfly The Swedish term, I understand, is dostadning. Decluttering your home so you won't leave as big a mess for your heirs to pass on. Closet organizers embraced the methods; the marketing people came up with the new term to make sure it "trended" and there are a host of books and YouTube sites with the new title.
Queendragonfly · 31-35, F
@dancingtongue ahhh Döstädning! I've heard of that. But I didn't know it was Swedish specific.