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If your ancestors doesn't appetite your actuality aback you're alive, they abiding won't appetite it aback you're dead.

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That's the edgeless appraisal of yet addition self-help columnist from abroad who is aggravating to get Americans, who accept an addiction to accession and accumulator units, to apple-pie up their acts.

The latest advance in the decluttering business comes from Stockholm, area 80-ish artisan Margareta Magnusson has aloof appear a abbreviate yet academician volume, "The Gentle Art of Swedish Afterlife Cleaning." The book will be appear in America in January.

While Marie Kondo gave us austere instructions to accumulate alone things that atom joy in "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing," Magnusson's book is aboveboard and unsentimental, with a bit of humor.

The capital bulletin from this mother of bristles is: Booty albatross for your items and don't leave them as a accountability for ancestors and friends. It's not fair.

Magnussun says you can accumulate things that arm-twist acceptable memories; there are no hard-and-fast rules such as folding your actual T-shirts to angle cocked in your drawers, as dictated by the KonMari method.

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The abstraction of decluttering afore you die, a action alleged "dostadning," is allotment of Swedish culture. (It comes from the Swedish words for afterlife and cleaning.)

Karin Olofsdotter, 51, the Swedish agent to the United States, says her mother and father, who are in their 80s, are in the bosom of it aback home.

"My parents and their accompany are afterlife cleaning, and we all affectionate of antic about it," Olofsdotter says. "It's about like a biological affair to do."

A few tips

Olofsdotter says allotment of Swedish ability is active apart and never actuality a accountability to anyone. How you accumulate your home is a account of that.

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Magnusson, who has confused 17 times, says women generally end up accomplishing the afterlife cleaning. After her bedmate died, she had to declutter their house; it took her about a year afore she could abbreviate to a two-room apartment.

Although it was cutting at the time, she says, she is animated she did it herself as her bedmate would accept capital to accumulate aggregate and her kids would accept disagreed about what to accumulate and what to toss. This way, she fabricated her own decisions. Now she continues to do it regularly.

Magnusson suggests that 65 is a acceptable time to alpha afterlife cleaning, but the action is absolution at any age.

A few of her tips: Don't alpha with your photos, as you'll get bogged bottomward in your memories and never achieve anything. Make abiding you accumulate a book of passwords for your heirs. Give abroad nice things you don't appetite as gifts, such as ceramics or table linens or books, as against to affairs new items. Accumulate a abstracted box of things that amount alone to you, and characterization it to be tossed aloft your death. It's OK to accumulate a admired blimp beastly or two.

Magnusson and one of her daughters filmed a video in which she talks about why she decluttered and how it's not a sad process, but added of a relief. Her babe asks whether her mom would advice her activate afterlife cleaning. They go to a accumulator locker overflowing with baggage and clothes and blankets topped by a garden gnome.

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"Oh, my God. What are you activity to do with all this crap?" her mother says in absolute English, demography a attending around. They altercate how continued it's activity to take.

"You are never accessible with your afterlife charwoman because you don't apperceive aback you are activity to die," Magnusson says. "So it goes on and on."

When you are dead, again it stops, they agree.

"Finally," Magnusson says.

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