Marie Kondo

For kids, it's best to teach them how to fold their clothes first. Kids will be able to fold their clothes at about three years old. You don't want to teach them how to put away toys first because it's difficult. Clothes are something kids wear every day, so it's easy for them to have a sense about their belongings.

Japanese Businesswoman

Joanne Liu

People inspire me. Every day, I meet amazing individuals in the field. When I see a mother who has walked for three weeks to come to a MSF clinic, with two kids on her back and her belongings on her head, facing intimidation and physical abuse on her way, I am inspired by her resilience - her desire for life.

Canadian Scientist

Clint Hill

I had a great childhood. Even though I never had my own room - I shared the porch with my grandfather and kept my belongings in one drawer of a dresser that was jammed next to the piano - I never went hungry and was always supported by my family.

American Public Servant

Spike Milligan

My parents always threw everything out, gave everything away. I'm surprised they never threw me away. That's why I've always kept my children's things. My parents had no feelings for belongings.

Irish Comedian

Thomas Peterffy

As a child, I grew up in fear. When I was four, all my other relatives were deported to the countryside, having to leave most of their personal belongings behind.

Hungarian Businessman

Erma Bombeck

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

American Journalist

Plutarch

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

Greek Philosopher

Josh Barnett

You have to go out there and win battles before you can raid the dead of all their belongings.

American Mixed Martial Artist

Hisham Matar

Political dictatorships take possession not just of money and belongings but of narrative.

American Writer

John Gourley

Being robbed is a really great way of editing your belongings.

American Musician

Belongings usually refer to physical objects you can carry or move.

Physical Items

Unlike feelings or thoughts, 'belongings' are not abstract concepts.

Not Abstract

'Belongings' often implies items you're personally attached to.

Personal Connection

In a legal context, 'belongings' means items you legally own.

Legal Ownership

Belongings can be used as evidence in legal proceedings.

Evidence in Court

Belongings become central during disputes about ownership or inheritance.

Dispute Resolution

 Now, how does the most powerful country in the world handle these displaced people? They cram them onto cots, put all your personal belongings in a plastic garbage bag, stick it underneath, and put you on the floor of an entire sports arena, or a gymnasium. So obviously there's a massive housing gap,

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 He kindly helped her re-collect her belongings, and politely offered to walk her to class. And you'll never guess who went together to the dance later that year. Yup, those two. So as we can see from this example, the key to getting a date for the dance is to collide with someone

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 and was a severe alcoholic. The first night in her apartment, she put her belongings on the bed and slept on the floor. The next three nights, she slept out by the dumpster near the apartment building. With the aid of her case manager, she moved back into her apartment

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 mom to talk about and then once I received all of his belongings I just found out that he was such a great person and very loved he was just very much alive one of his friends from high school said he was when those guys would walk down the hall everybody would say

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 where almost everything is shared. At the other extreme, sometimes our attachment to our things can go too far. Part of the cause of hoarding disorder is an exaggerated sense of responsibility and protectiveness toward one's belongings.

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 I sold my belongings it took my wife and my two young children at the time and I left but what I found in Syria was not what they showed me on the brochure I saw a real police state I thought back to the country that was from Canada and

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 My great-grandfather had the foresight to protect this instrument at a time when my great-grandmother was pawning off all their belongings, but that's another story. He protected it by giving it to the next generation,

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 belongings from the modern world oh sure I used to wear shirts like that hard to believe I even live that way it's me so long as he unearths its contents most seemed to be from another lifetime my

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 the mountain world behind he stashed his belongings all over the forest I started seeing the earth as my house and home learning to put those stashes hide them there's a real art despite his best

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 to a bilac on market day in order to meet the word ave and there we met chief macau and his family and he said that if we would buy a mule and put all of our few belongings on top of it we could