'Leave no clutter': The practice of Swedish Death Cleaning
SWEDEN — To Sweden, the country which filled our homes with IKEA furniture, but also came up with the concept of "death cleaning" — getting rid of stuff as you age to spare your loved ones when you pass.
Margareta Magnusson, the author who took the idea global with the bestselling book, "The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter," passed herself this week with all the lightness of being that she had preached.
"If you went to her house, you always left with something to take home," her daughter Jane said.
"You had to be careful not to say, 'What a nice cushion' because then she'd try to give it to you," she said with a laugh.
Thanks to her mother's death cleaning, "I don't need to lift a finger," Jane said. "Mum had nothing in the attic, nothing in the cellar" but her place was "still very cozy."
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