ot. the life changing magic of tidying up: the Japanese art of decluttering

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By Marie kondo. Bestseller in japan. Just released in the states recently.

If you think you might need this book please get it.

It has changed my life…

Incredible changes mentally in last month.

[NotCranky]

I am not going there. Good Japanese movie though, “Departures” really cool , The main guy becomes an undertaker after losing his job with an orchestra. He learns to make deceased people beautiful and dignified for their coffins against the wishes of his wife and friends who want him to get a real job. Very nice movie.

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ok. will watch.

you may not be ready for decluttering.i wasnt for many eyars…actually a whole lifetime. there is a lot of psychological stuff going on with extra things. anyway, int he last month, ive taken several vanloads of crap to the goodwill. also my office is pristine, where previously id leave things out to linger and stare at me….

strangely, I am eating less junk food and feel no craving for alcohol. I also am feeling less desire for material things.

im telling you, when the time comes, read the book, or at least google the author MARIE KONDO and see what she ahs to say. you can get most of th einfo online in her interviews. the book is very short an dmemorable tho.

[Hobie]

Will check it out. Thx. Clutter is a giant thorn in my marriage. Remember when your parents saved every copy of National Geographic mag. Why, just why? .. And think of the $$ all the crap represents.. only to throw way. Still not ready for the nude 5 day course though 🙂

( I know it is not all days ….)

[FlyerInHi]

Read some architecture books. Your physical environment affects psychology.

Japanese zen and mid century American modern is how I live my life. No junk and clutter.

I can’t get married because most women are into junk and clutter.

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[quote=Hobie]Will check it out. Thx. Clutter is a giant thorn in my marriage. Remember when your parents saved every copy of National Geographic mag. Why, just why? .. And think of the $$ all the crap represents.. only to throw way. Still not ready for the nude 5 day course though 🙂

( I know it is not all days ….)[/quote]

Just get Marie kondo’s book. It could change things….there is truly an art to discarding things.

[sdsurfer]

Right on! I’ll have a look and share with the wifey. I think I actually ended up on becomingminimalist.com through Piggington a while back and that has definitely helped out home quite a bit. I think the word “minimalist” scares people away a bit, but living with less is definitely a good thing from my experience and it’s relative…you do not have to go full on contemporary/modern in your home. We still have a ways to go, but have been working it and getting better each day. It’s kind of a cool feeling to suddenly realize that it’s not that your home is not big enough…it’s that you have too much stuff in that home and that half of the stuff you really do not use very often so you can give it away.

I read somewhere that if you are on the fence about keeping something or getting rid of it to ask yourself, “Does this make my life awesome?” and there are so many things that are very easy to get rid of if you say that as you pick it up. Reminds me of Marie’s “Joy” aspect I just read about online.

I did hear that the CEO of Goodwill makes like 6 million a year through his clever pay nothing leading to infinity for your margins so I prefer dropping out stuff off at the DAV up in Oceanside. Not sure if anyone else heard about that or can confirm it is true.

[UCGal]

Thanks for the recommendation. I just put a hold on it through the library. But there are 18 people ahead of me in the queue. That’s ok – it will let me finish “Being Mortal” – a very good book on aging/medicine/nursing homes/indpendence/etc… by Atul Gawandi.

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[quote=UCGal]Thanks for the recommendation. I just put a hold on it through the library. But there are 18 people ahead of me in the queue. That’s ok – it will let me finish “Being Mortal” – a very good book on aging/medicine/nursing homes/indpendence/etc… by Atul Gawandi.[/quote]

that gawande book is on my wife’s nightstand. on my nightstand: a new translation of stanislavski’s acting texts.

it’s just amazing when a book actually affects your life. ideas actually matter.

THE TIGHTWAD GAZETTE changed everything for me back in 2001.

now, marie kondo with the KonMari method.

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[quote=Hobie]Will check it out. Thx. Clutter is a giant thorn in my marriage. Remember when your parents saved every copy of National Geographic mag. Why, just why? .. And think of the $$ all the crap represents.. only to throw way. Still not ready for the nude 5 day course though 🙂

( I know it is not all days ….)[/quote]

Strangely I had to keep a whole shelf of national geo. And probably 10y. Of DISCOVER magazines.

My oldest has read them all several times and can recall relevant articles and find them on the shelf when a topic came up even when much younger. Theose magazines just spark so much joy for me on the shelf. Cannot toss. maybe ever. but other thigns went out like nothing…i just love to see him come home and pore over january 2005 ….

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DEPARTURES is instant view on netflix. maybe tonight…

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home, for the oldest, may be where the national geographics are.

[NotCranky]

[quote=scaredyclassic]DEPARTURES is instant view on netflix. maybe tonight…[/quote]
I hope you like it.

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I am positive we will. My wife has an entire shelf of books just on death related topics. Death is kind of her thing.

[flyer]

IMO, when you fully and completely accept that everything on earth is temporary, this realization gives you a great sense of freedom.

As far as seeking the “inner truth,” of being, it’s true that Stanislavski’s approach is very revealing. . .

“Stanislavski’s system is a method that actors use to produce realistic characters on stage. His original studies of techniques led to the use of emotional memory that required actors to trigger the emotions of their characters internally. This technique was based from a French psychologist Theodule Ribot’s concept of ‘Affective Memory’. Later in his life, Stanislavski realized that a shift in technique was needed for actors to produce more realistic emotions before audiences but he never discredited the use of emotional memory if used cautiously. This was underscored when his talented protégé Michael Chekhov experimented with emotional memory and had a nervous breakdown. A few months before his death he told his assistants that the path to glory can be found by working from the internal (the inside out) as well as the external (the outside in). This led to the ‘Method of Physical Action’.”

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