The text is sprinkled with fun Swedish words such as fulskåp (a cabinet for ugly things) and mansdagis (a male kindergarten, or another word for “man cave”). “The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning” is a collection of bite-sized musings and words of advice written in the delightful tone of an engaged grandmother. It is amazing, and also a little strange, how many things we accumulate in a lifetime. Radical and joyous, her guide is an invigorating, touching and surprising process that can help you or someone you love immeasurably, and offers the chance to celebrate and reflect on all the tiny joys that make up a long life along the way.Having passed the age of 80, Margareta Magnusson decided to engage in döstädning, a Swedish word that translates as “death cleaning” - and to write about it in “The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning.” In Sweden, death cleaning involves removing unnecessary items from your household as death approaches, allowing one to distribute family heirlooms, shred unnecessary paperwork or find welcoming homes for beloved treasures. Margareta Magnusson has death cleaned for herself and for many others. Whatever your age, Swedish death cleaning can be used to help you de-clutter your life, and take stock of what's important.
Whether it's sorting the family heirlooms from the junk, downsizing to a smaller place, or setting up a system to help you stop misplacing your keys, death cleaning gives us the chance to make the later years of our lives as comfortable and stress-free as possible. You embraced hygge and mastered konmari now meet Dostadning, or death cleaning: the Scandinavian art of shedding unnecessary things to make our lives as joyful as possible, at any ageĭöstädning, or the art of death cleaning, is a Swedish phenomenon by which the elderly and their families set their affairs in order.
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