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Why Mum’s kitchen means HOME

When a friend recently gave me a book on the art of decluttering, I half-heartedly began the process by moving a stash of jam jars to the recycling and disposing of a cushion with a pug’s face on it that had gone musty-smelling after being left outside for a few nights. Soon after this, my kids arrived home for a break from university and wouldn’t you just know it? One of them needed the jars and the other felt desperately sad about the cushion. It made me think about the way we cling to stuff – not just our own but other people’s too.

I was

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