She returns to the utility room which she has just cleared. It has taken five hours but looks so different now. The space excites her. ‘Look at it!’ she declares with unconcealed joy. ‘With all that junk gone I can see where everything is!’ The local tip had had a busy day. And there’s a great sense of freedom, elation and energy when we de-clutter a space. Socrates said, ‘There is so much I have no need of,’ and here is the de-clutterer’s mantra. We rid ourselves of things we …
