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Japanese expert organizer and author Marie Kondo knew and preached this in a way that defined the 2010s and its obsession with efficiency.

In her 2010 book, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,” Kondo chillingly put it this way: “The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.”

For Kondo, what to get rid of and what to keep boiled down to a self-interrogation that was, on the surface, instinctual: “Does it spark joy?”

Use the Marie Kondo decluttering approach.

A national decluttering craze, set off by organization expert Marie Kondo, also benefited the chain.