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When you’re feeling overwhelmed, tidying the house can seem an impossible task. Maybe it’s the mess itself that all seems too much – it’s hard to know where to begin when every room is the definition of chaos. Maybe burnout or personal challenges mean gathering the emotional and physical energy to get on with chores seems beyond your capabilities right now. ‘When we’re overwhelmed, we stop seeing our possessions as individual items, and can only see “clutter” as a huge indistinct mass. And that feels like an insurmountable challenge

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