What clearing out my late parents’ house taught me about my own clutter
telegraph.co.ukLe Grand Decluttering, I also found boxes marked ‘eBay’ – occasionally I do a little online selling, most recently when I was down on my luck with work.However, in this particular endeavour, you do have to be realistic about the volume you can process because once you’ve fielded questions from pixiesteve_x and 111sweetlips about inside leg measurements and authenticity, then searched for bubble wrap before queuing at the post office, if you have more than a few things up for auction, you’re looking at a full-time job.
Which is why I’m diverting most of my eBay merch to whoever wants it, including a polished wooden beach bat and ball set (while me and my husband might fancy ourselves in Ipanema, we’ll never use it in a million years) and the bulky Nespresso machine (we’ve downsized to a traditional Italian on-the-hob pot).Clearing the decks has given me space to breathe.
To think. Look, I’ll never have an Instagrammable larder à la Marie Kondo. But more importantly, I’m less connected to ‘things’.
I want, instead, to be connected to people, to experiences. To keep the useful, the meaningful, the beautiful and let the rest go.
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