Category Simple & Minimal Living

The name stops people cold. “Swedish death cleaning” sounds morbid — like something from a true-crime documentary. But the Swedish concept it’s based on, döstädning (a combination of dö, meaning death, and städning, meaning cleaning), is one of the gentlest,…

The box in my closet held my grandmother’s teacups, a stack of birthday cards from people I hadn’t spoken to in a decade, my childhood teddy bear with one eye, and a ticket stub from a concert I barely remembered.…