Tag: Swedish

Swedish Death Cleaning Gets Real

If I could time travel and advise my younger self, I would tell her to just say no. Don’t rescue a U-Haul full of furnishings from Grandma’s house just because she left them to you in her will. Your daughter doesn’t need more than one American Girl doll. And those books? You can ch...

Swedish Death Cleaning Gets Real

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 ...