Swedish Death Cleaning
Lexie
Lexie Lombard
4.8 • 906 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week, we’re talking about Swedish Death Cleaning, the surprisingly tender Scandinavian practice of clearing out your belongings so your life (and your home) reflects who you are now. If you’re sentimental, overwhelmed by clutter, going through a transition, or just craving a fresh start, this episode will feel like a deep exhale. We talk about identity, letting go, ADHD and clutter, grief, and why releasing old things can help you step into your next chapter.
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| 0:00.0 | If I can influence you on anything today, let it be the concept of Swedish death cleaning. |
| 0:11.9 | Hello, hello everybody. I'm Lexi Lombard, your host of the Lexi podcast, and normally I'll begin this show with a little personal life update, what I've been doing. |
| 0:20.1 | But I want to get |
| 0:21.2 | right into the concept in which I'm trying to influence you on today. If you do want the life |
| 0:26.4 | update, the prison charity I'm working with, the boutique I'm working at, I'm going to get into |
| 0:32.1 | that on the Patreon, which I will have a link below. Today we are going to talk about a way that you |
| 0:37.2 | can look at, |
| 0:38.5 | acknowledge, and place your belongings that suits not only your future self but your loved |
| 0:43.8 | ones after you are gone. I love talking about death. I do not find it to be morbid because |
| 0:48.7 | it's no secret. It's not like some people experience death and others don't. So this is a topic |
| 0:53.8 | that I really enjoy and the idea of using decluttering as an act of self-love is powerful. |
| 1:00.5 | Swedish death cleaning is a Scandinavian decluttering philosophy that's focused on lightening your life load now. |
| 1:07.4 | So your loved ones do not have to sift through mountains of your belongings. It's not just |
| 1:12.0 | about stuff, it's about consciously curating your life while you're still living it and decluttering |
| 1:19.3 | as an act of self-love and self-honesty. Think of it as I'm doing myself a favor, I'm doing |
| 1:25.1 | everyone else a favor by taking care of my belongings. And it's a |
| 1:28.6 | really generous philosophy that feels deeply un-American, if I'm being perfectly honest, which to give |
| 1:35.6 | a little background. I was not an incredibly organized person growing up. I definitely was a little |
| 1:41.3 | ADHD kid and to manage my ADHD had to put a lot of systems in place. |
| 1:46.5 | I have a lot of little games and mental gymnastics that I do for myself to make my life easier. |
| 1:51.7 | Decluttering has been one of them. I posted on Instagram today asking for your questions in regards |
| 1:56.8 | to organization and decluttering. And one of my friends responded saying, wow, I just |
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