We’re trained to effectively explore the dialogue behind each item and help you to decide whether it’s worth keeping in line with your ideal lifestyle and living environment. Letting go of items can be an extremely difficult process, that’s one of the reasons why many people require support from a KonMari Consultant or professional organiser. Margareta’s fresh take on letting things go: In KonMari, we practice gratitude when we say goodbye to the items that have served us in our life but no longer have a place in our life.
They’re not planning for death they’re taking stock of their life content and using decluttering as an opportunity for reflection, which leads to a beautiful trip down memory lane.Ģ. Increasingly, I am working with clients in their 60s who are downsizing because they want to live a more streamlined life. Margareta shares some careful questions to ask family members to introduce the topic gently including ‘do you enjoy having all of these things?’, ‘have you thought about what you want to do with this stuff later on?’ and ‘is there any way I can help you with these items in a slow and meaningful way?’. But this book does offer some guidance on how to broach the topic of getting things in order for when that time comes. Starting the conversation with them about what they want to do with these items should they pass away is an unthinkable challenge! Thinking about death is hard. But it’s something I automatically put to the back of my head. Talking about death is taboo but death cleaning is a way to start the conversation in a subtle way: I know I’ve had many occasions in the past when I’ve visited my parent’s home and thought about the hours it would take me to go through everything when they pass away. Here are my top ten takeaways from this lovely book…ġ. It’s a ‘cosy’ little book, and at times, a little tongue in cheek!
When you’re reading it, for me it felt like Margareta was sat right across from me with a cup of tea sharing the story of her life. The book is lively, humorous and insightful. When I first researched the subject of the book, I thought the content would be sad and depressing. She also shares how she is preparing her home to enable her children to deal with her things in a meaningful, less stressful way once she departs from this world to her final resting place. The author, Margareta Magnusson (who doesn’t tell us her exact age, only that she is between 80 and 100) shares all of her tips and wisdom from her experience of deciding what to do with items following the death of her mother, mother-in-law and her husband. The meaning of Döstädning is: ‘removing unnecessary things and making your home nice and orderly when you think the time is coming closer for you to leave the planet’.
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