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Kintsugi is the gentle and healing art of bringing out the beauty in broken things. PIC/ISTOCK

If plain old dusting sounds unpalatable, give it a dose of panache—deploy Chinese feng shui to help you decide what to place where, and take the help of Japanese kintsugi to justify salvaging a beautiful but broken piece. You can even tell folks that you are carrying out the Swedish practice of dostadning—that translates to the sad-sounding “death cleaning”, but don’t be alarmed, it’s just a different kind of motivation for cleaning out stuff. The cathartic result may surprise you. You can find out more about it in the book Dostadning: The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson.
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