The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter
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our family we have always liked to read and keep books. A Christmas without a book for a present is a disappointment.
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His snickarbod (Swedish for “toolshed”) gradually became what I believe today is called a “man cave.” In Swedish we also now sometimes call it mansdagis—a male kindergarten, which makes me smile and which feels like an entirely appropriate word.
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To be grateful and happy for a present when you first receive it is something different, because that gratitude is not connected to the thing itself but to the giver who gave it to you.