On my reading list this month is the book The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson. As harsh as that term seem to us in North America, Death Cleaning perfectly describes the act of purging and sorting the belongings of a lifetime before you die. This process should be done by everyone.
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I don't think minimalism could get any trendier right now. It is so widespread that the backlash has begun. In this article in The Guardian, Chelsea Fagan argues that minimalism is just another form of conspicuous consumption available only to the rich. In this post, Kimberly Button argues that minimalism made her life harder rather than easier. Like everything that humans tend to overwork, ruin or misinterpret, minimalism doesn't have to be done to death.
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