Do you have cupboards filled with junk, wardrobes bursting with clothes and drawers crammed with all sorts of things you never use? You keep meaning to have a good clear out, but something always holds you back. You’ve read Marie Kondo, watched her on Netflix, you know all about only hanging on to things that “spark joy”. If only you could ditch all those DVDs, books, clothes, trinkets, cards, magazines, papers, old mobiles, gadgets, takeaway flyers…
‘There’s owning your stuff and there’s when your stuff owns you,’ explains Tracy McCubbin, US based decluttering guru and author of Making Space, Clutter Free: The Last Book on Decluttering You’ll Ever Need (Sourcebooks, £12.99). ‘When you’ve got too much clutter, constantly thinking about how you’re going to manage it takes up emotional energy.…