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MODERN LIFE

WHAT IS

a Swedish death clean?

Döstädning, literally death clean in Swedish, means reducing your possessions to save your loved ones a huge task when you’re gone.

Decluttering, then? Yeh, but no, but… A lovely lady called Margareta Magnusson makes it more of a. Sorting your stuff becomes a feelgood way of life that she advocates starting in your 50s – she is aged between 80 and 100 she says.

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