How to give things you don’t need a second life – and put some cash in your pocket

That item you no longer need could be treasure to someone else. Photograph: Olha Danylenko/Getty Images

Many of us have a cupboard, drawer or spare room bursting with things we no longer use but somehow can’t bring ourselves to part with. In fact, more than a third of items in the average UK household are unused – that’s according to insights revealed on Live Better For Less, Vinted’s new TV series, which sees lifestyle experts from across Europe help families part ways with their unused things.

Although it might seem like a chore to begin with, when we decide to declutter our homes, our lives get richer in many ways.