By Lars · A Swede in Minnesota

The Swedish Method How Swedes Keep a Calm Home, a Full Fridge and Money in the Bank After 50

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Lars grew up in Dalarna and has lived in Minnesota for twenty-five years. Almost everything in this book he learned from his mother and his mormor, then tested for a quarter of a century in an American kitchen. Nothing in it needs a special product, a subscription or a new kitchen. Most of it is free.

The Swedish Method by Lars: a calm home, a full fridge, money in the bank. The cover shows Lars in his orange sweater holding a Dala horse.

The Book

Less to buy.
Less to clean. Less to throw out.

This book will not tell you that Sweden is better than America. Swedes simply grew up doing a few ordinary things another way, and those few things happen to save a great deal of money, food, time and worry.

Six parts: the one Swedish idea underneath everything, lagom, which means just enough. Then the kitchen, the house, clearing out, small spaces and light, and finally money. Every chapter ends with something you can try this week.

"Lagom är bäst." Just enough is best.

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  • All 24 chapters across 6 parts, 264 pages
  • The Swap boxes: the American habit and the Swedish one, side by side
  • The Math boxes: the dollar arithmetic, worked out with round example numbers
  • Mormor's Rules, and one thing to try this week at the end of every chapter
  • Checklists for the kitchen, the house, clearing out, and light and space
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The Swedish Way

Same house, same week.
Done the Swedish way.

Swedes simply grew up doing a few ordinary things another way. Six of them, straight from the book's Swap boxes.

1The front door

HereShoes on all the way to the refrigerator

The Swedish wayShoes off in the first few steps, every time

2The weekly shop

HereA big trip whenever the fridge looks empty

The Swedish wayOne planned shop a week from a list written at home

3The kitchen

HerePaper towels for every spill

The Swedish wayA disktrasa, the Swedish sponge cloth, hanging over the faucet

4Cleaning

HereA long Saturday catching up

The Swedish wayA few minutes every evening so there is nothing to catch up on

5Lunch

HereLunch skipped, or eaten standing at the counter

The Swedish wayA matlåda from last night, warmed and put on a plate

6Clearing out

HereLeft for the children to do someday

The Swedish wayDone by you, slowly, while it is still your choice

From The Swap boxes in chapters 1, 7, 8 and 9 of the book.

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Contents

Every part of the book,
and what it covers.

6 parts and 24 chapters over 264 pages. Nothing is hidden behind the checkout.

  1. Part One

    The Swedish Way 3 Chapters

    “Not too much, not too little. Just enough.”

    • 1 Twenty-Five Years Between Two Kitchens
    • 2 Lagom: Just Enough Is Best
    • 3 What I Learned in a Red Wooden House
  2. Part Two

    The Swedish Kitchen 5 Chapters

    “Buy ingredients, not dinners, and let nothing go to waste.”

    • 4 The Weekly Cart
    • 5 A Small Freezer That Is Always Full
    • 6 Nothing Goes Bad in My Fridge
    • 7 Cooking for One or Two
    • 8 The Kitchen Things We Threw Out
  3. Part Three

    The Calm Home 4 Chapters

    “A clean house is not cleaned. It is kept.”

    • 9 Shoes Off at the Door
    • 10 Ten Minutes Every Evening
    • 11 A House That Cleans Easily
    • 12 Laundry, Linens and Fresh Air
  4. Part Four

    Clearing Out 4 Chapters

    “Clear it out while you still choose what stays.”

    • 13 Döstädning: Clearing Out While You Still Can
    • 14 The Rules for What to Keep
    • 15 Your Children Don't Want It
    • 16 Downsizing Without Regret
  5. Part Five

    Small House, Big Life 3 Chapters

    “Light first, then furniture, then nothing more.”

    • 17 Light Is the First Piece of Furniture
    • 18 Fewer, Better Things
    • 19 Winter the Swedish Way
  6. Part Six

    Money the Swedish Way 5 Chapters

    “Spend on what matters, and on nothing that doesn't.”

    • 20 The Poor Swede Habits
    • 21 A Budget My Father Would Recognize
    • 22 Fika, Fredagsmys and a Rich Life for Little Money
    • 23 Growing Older the Swedish Way
    • 24 Lagom Är Bäst
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From the Book

Twenty-four chapters.
Here are three passages.

It is a quarter past six on a January morning in Minnesota, and the thermometer outside my kitchen window says eleven below. The street is still black.
Chapter 1 · Twenty-Five Years Between Two Kitchens
Marilyn has lived in the yellow house opposite mine for almost forty years, longer than anyone else on the block, and she knows the birthday of every dog on the street.
Chapter 13 · Döstädning: Clearing Out While You Still Can
When she cleared out her red house in Dalarna, at about eighty, she kept three objects from all the decades on her shelves: the copper coffee pot that had been her mother's, a painted Dalarna horse and one photograph of my grandfather.
Chapter 15 · Your Children Don't Want It
Lars, a Swede in Minnesota, in his orange sweater in his kitchen.

Who Wrote This

A Swede who has lived
in Minnesota for 25 years.

Lars grew up in Dalarna, in the middle of Sweden, and has lived in Minnesota for twenty-five years, on a quiet street with a lot of retired couples. His mother lives in an apartment in Gothenburg. His mormor, his mother's mother, is ninety-four and still lives alone in a red wooden house in Dalarna.

"Almost everything in this book I learned from those two women, and then tested for a quarter of a century in an American kitchen."

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Questions

What people ask
before they buy.

Do I have to live in Sweden, or buy Swedish things?

No. Nothing in here needs a special product, a subscription or a new kitchen, and most of it is free. You do not have to become Swedish. You only have to borrow a few habits and keep the ones that fit your life.

Who is it for?

Americans over fifty, often retired, often a household of one or two, and the families who help them. It is for anybody who wants a calmer home, less waste and more money left at the end of the month.

What format is it, and how do I get it?

You get both a PDF and an EPUB, so it opens on any phone, tablet, computer or e-reader, and the PDF can be printed on paper. It comes straight to your email the moment you pay, and it is yours to keep. There is nothing to log into.

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