Swedish Death Cleaning Gets Real

<p>If I could time travel and advise my younger self, I would tell her to just say no. Don&rsquo;t rescue a U-Haul full of furnishings from Grandma&rsquo;s house just because she left them to you in her will. Your daughter doesn&rsquo;t need more than one American Girl doll. And those books? You can check them out from your beloved public library.</p> <h2><a href="https://medium.com/classics-rock/civilizations-greatest-amenity-59f4510801c3?source=post_page-----de21f447913b--------------------------------" rel="noopener follow" target="_blank">The Public Library is Civilization&rsquo;s Greatest Amenity</a></h2> <h3><a href="https://medium.com/classics-rock/civilizations-greatest-amenity-59f4510801c3?source=post_page-----de21f447913b--------------------------------" rel="noopener follow" target="_blank">Access the knowledge of humanity for free. Plus much more.</a></h3> <p><a href="https://medium.com/classics-rock/civilizations-greatest-amenity-59f4510801c3?source=post_page-----de21f447913b--------------------------------" rel="noopener follow" target="_blank">medium.com</a></p> <p>Actually, my younger self knew that. At 22, I vowed never to own more than could fit in the trunk of my VW bug. I was a minimalist before it was a thing. Thirty years ago, in the early days of the internet, I moderated a discussion group for practitioners of voluntary simplicity. My intentions were always firmly in the less-is-more camp, but as John Lennon sang, &ldquo;life is what happens when you&rsquo;re busy making other plans.&rdquo;</p> <p>So, like many over-privileged humans, I&rsquo;m now occupied with paring down the excess from a lifetime of accumulation. Our consumer culture makes acquisition easy and mindless, making us feel overwhelmed by our possessions. It seems everyone is decluttering these days. Peacock has a new series on Swedish death cleaning, although I haven&rsquo;t seen it because I decluttered my streaming services.</p> <p>Nearly a year ago, I wrote about my efforts to spend the rest of my life not surrounded by objects ultimately destined for the landfill.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/crows-feet/swedish-death-cleaning-gets-real-de21f447913b"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>
Tags: Death Cleaning