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Margareta has a wickedly dry sense of humour, so by reading her book you’re most likely to approach the whole process from a lighter perspective. Simplifying your life and making your day-to-day life easier should never be considered sad. Here are my top six lessons from the book, although I would recommend getting a copy, reading it and then passing it on to someone who might also benefit from reading it. Her debut book is a New York Times Bestseller. A mother of five, she has lived all over the world including Singapore and Hong Kong. Margareta Magnusson is a Swedish artist “between her 80 th and 100 th birthdays”, who studied at the Beckman College of Design. In the author’s own words “it is a term that means removing unnecessary things and making your home nice and orderly when you think the time is coming closer for you to leave the planet.” It’s about getting rid of the stuff they don’t need, so that their descendants don’t have to deal with it all. The title might be somewhat off-putting, but this system is much more focused on the “gentle” side, rather than on “death”.ĭeath cleaning is what Swedish people do when they retire or slow down their working lives and have more time to deal with all the possessions they have accumulated over their lifetime. If you found true joy in Marie Kondo’s decluttering tactics, then it’s very likely that you’ll fall in love with Margareta Magnusson’s new book “The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning”. The six basic principles of Swedish Death Cleaning Have you heard of Swedish Death Cleaning? In this post, Filipa do Carmo of Khora Space Sorted reviews Margareta Magnusson’s book “The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning” and explains how it works.

Book the gentle art of swedish death cleaning