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Smothered in white elephants!

When I complained to a friend about all the unnecessary stuff hanging around, she told me that she once attended a ‘white elephant party’ where all the guests brought stuff they no longer wanted. It was at such an occasion that she found somebody else’s unwanted teapot, which became her kitchen favourite! So maybe there is wisdom in the saying that ‘one man’s trash is another man’s treasure’…

I have long been pondering things that are of no use to us anymore, but I don’t know how to get rid of them – you can’t simply place unwanted stuff on the pavement like they do in The Netherlands, or throw

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