For anyone who somehow missed out on Marie Kondo's "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up," or who found her de-cluttering style too quick, too cute or too oriented toward a younger set, a Swedish author "between the age of 80 and 100" hascome out with her own take on the subject.
In "The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning" (Scribner, January 2018), Margareta Magnusson uses a dry, unsentimental and sometimes dark Scandinavian sense of humor, and writes with an older set (and their younger relatives) in mind.
"Aging is not for weaklings," she says. "That is why you should not wait too long to start your downsizing.