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the ritual of throwing out your past to make room for regret-free future clutter.

means to remove unnecessary items from a space, deliberately trading stuff for room to breathe.

from clutter traces to middle english clotter, meaning to clot or coagulateliterally things clumping together until they choke a space; decluttering is the undoing of that clog, popularized as a verb in the self-help boom of the 1990s.

for instance

marie kondo methodkonmari folding system turned tidying into a global 2014 bestseller.

swedish death cleaningdostadning, popularized 2017, preps belongings for after you die.

minimalism documentarythe minimalists netflix film, 2016, pushed extreme decluttering mainstream.

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