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Hey, everyone.

Do you ever think, man, in the midst of this sky high unemployment,

what I really need is someone telling me to throw away my material possessions,

then have we got a book for you, the life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Econdo.

I'm Kellanurski, I'm a comic, a father, and in my 20s, I thought I was a minimalist,

but it turns out I was just poor.

And I come from a family of maximalists, both in terms of spending and reproduction.

Mario Kondo is a world-renowned tiding expert, and this book is based on essentially two

central premises.

One, get rid of anything that doesn't spark joy.

And two, have a designated place for everything that remains.

And this is the book pile.

So, Dave, you've actually done everything in this book, correct? You've tidied? I have. So I've done it. She says in the book

that if you do it once, you'll never rebound. But I've done it three times. So I don't think that

it's quite true. And I really did try to... Is it a book about heroin? Now, when I go through and implement the book, it really does make like a huge difference. I feel so good in my room and I look around and it's basically only things that I love left. Now, you live alone. So how many things do you have, Dave? How many... You want me to count individually the things I have?

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