When I first heard about the four-box decluttering method, I wasn’t convinced. After all, I’ll be the first to admit that I’m very emotional about my belongings. My husband will say that I have too much clutter, but I’d say that I have a (admittedly rather chaotic) curation of trinkets and memories that fill our house with, well, us.
And while the many decluttering methods out there have offered practical solutions to the build-up of ‘things’ in my home, they don’t account for the fact that there’s a lot of emotion in people’s things - from the shell I brought back from my honeymoon to my decades-old notepads from my uni days. As a result, I’ve never really been able to declutter at all, and my home has started to burst at the seams.
