0:00 Most people open a cabinet one day and realize they have been keeping something for 30 years that they never once used. In an American house, that moment usually shows up when somebody is standing in a garage with too many trash bags, and by then it is too late. Japanese homes tend to avoid that moment altogether, and it has very little to do with discipline or being a naturally tidy person. Japan has simple rules about what comes into a house, what stays, and what goes, and those rules get taught early and used for a
0:31 lifetime, [music] so the pile never builds up in the first place. So, I want to go through 11 Japanese decluttering lessons that almost everyone learns far too late. And number 11 is the one that causes family arguments, so stay with me until the end because that is the one you cannot go back and fix. The first lesson [music] is to stop saving your best things for later, and you already know exactly which things I mean. There is a set of China in your cabinet right now that has come out four times since the wedding it came from, a sweater in
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