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Re:Marie Kondo's Advice Praised by Scientists: “Clutter Is N... by sct202 on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:00AM (#18865709)
My parents have a basement overflowing of stuff that is full of potential utility, so I think that the joy aspect is to provide a different view point so people let go more easily.
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Re:Marie Kondo's Advice Praised by Scientists: “Clutter Is N... by mc32 on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:05AM (#18865764)
True. But the same qualifier could be used for joy. Things could have potential for providing joy, they're just not providing joy right now.

I guess, if I had "too many things", I'd probably set some parameters and get rid of unnecessary duplicates, broken things unlikely to get repaired and things unlikely to be used in any significant capacity in the foreseeable future -knowing that one may possibly have to reacquire something one disposed of.

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Re:Marie Kondo's Advice Praised by Scientists: “Clutter Is N... by abritinthebay on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @02:45PM (#18868112)
Potential utility is different to actual utility though. Is that stuff actually useful to them right now? Or in general? If the answer is no then it has zero utility.
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