The economics of tidying up: what I learnt about money from Marie Kondo

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January is often the time that we declutter in our household. And this year, it feels as if everyone in Australia is doing the same.

When we took a few bags of clothes to the Salvos, the volunteer almost begged us not to gift too much.

“I don’t know what is happening out there,” she said. “But it seems like there is even more stuff being donated this January than usual. We are struggling to store it all!”

The question now is – what do I do with it all? It used to be easy to just whack things in plastic garbage bags and take it to a charity. But these days, most op shops have so much stuff already.

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