decluttering

In collection week, the nature strips in some suburbs start to look like an open-air furniture shop. There’s an armchair outside one house, a bookcase outside the next, and a bike with a flat tyre leaning against a fence. Somewhere along the street, a neighbour is standing beside a pile and asking a fair question. […]

You’ve had a big clear-out. Forty listings went up over a month, most of them sold, and your PayID account has seen more traffic than it has in years. Somewhere around the sale of the second couch, a thought arrives. Does the tax office know about this? And does it care? For most people clearing […]

There’s a room in most houses that has stopped being a room. It holds boxes, a bike nobody rides, two lamps that don’t match anything, and the bread maker that came out once in 2019. You’ve been meaning to deal with it. In November the whole suburb will be out on a Saturday morning looking […]