Why Some People Can't Throw Anything Away After 60 — What My Japanese Mother Understood

Declutter your whole house in 30 days, one small job a day: www.setsukomori.com Why Some People Can't Throw Anything Away After 60 — What My Japanese Mother Understood You can't throw anything away after 60, and you think it means you're messy. You open a drawer, and your hands just won't do it. It isn't messiness. It's your heart holding on to people, plans, and memories. I'm Setsuko, and my mother kept almost nothing at the end of her life, because she gave every old thing a goodbye, so today I'll show you why some people can't let go and what she understood. 🔔 Subscribe for a new Japanese home habit every week: https://www.youtube.com/@SetsukoMoriYT?sub_confirmation=1 In this video: Reason 1: Throwing things away feels like waste, and my drawer of 212 takeout chopsticks Reason 2: The object is a person, and my husband's side of the closet Reason 3: Keeping things for someone you're not anymore, and my mother's one "someday" drawer Reason 4: Letting go feels like admitting life has changed, and where my dining table went Reason 5: The fear that the memory goes with the thing Kuyo and hari kuyo: the Japanese custom of saying farewell to old things Otsukaresama: the one word my mother said before she let anything go Step 1 and 2: Start with things that hold nobody, and say the goodbye out loud Step 3: Send it to a person, not the trash, whenever you can Step 4: Keep one, not all, and the blue flannel shirt I wear on cold mornings No gadgets, no shopping lists. Just starting with one drawer that holds nobody, giving every old thing a goodbye, and keeping one instead of all. Tell me in the comments what you'll say goodbye to first. I read every comment, and someone reading yours might need it. #JapaneseHabits #Declutter #Downsizing