![]() We define and express ourselves through possessions. ![]() It raises deep questions about existence, self, materialism and money. The photograph of his “pigpen” before going minimalist is also very much your classic bachelor pad.ĭe-cluttering makes me nervous on several counts. Sasaki, a hip thirtysomething publisher, does his damnedest to be gender neutral, but when he confesses to owning a dust-covered guitar and amp, an unused vintage camera, and to being jealous of wealthier blokes with bigger houses, nice cars, better jobs and wives (he’s single and pretty anxious about it) his manhood comes through. In April this year, another Japanese author, Fumio Sasaki, published Goodbye, Things, reframing the ideas from a male angle. Whatever our social class or cultural camp, it’s familiar to us from TV (Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners, How Clean Is Your House? ) or from the best-selling 2011 book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo. To de-stress on a mindfulness retreat or a stint of voluntary work as a gardener.ĭe-cluttering is part of the same vague movement away from consumption. ![]() To de-tox from drink, social media, partying. ![]()
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