The Quiet Liberation of Living With Less Clutter
A move across continents forces a reckoning with decades of possessions and raises questions about what it means to walk a lighter path.
Illustration: Haozhe Li for Bloomberg
My husband opened the cupboard, stood back and coughed pointedly. “Well,” he said, “you probably need to tackle this.”
Inside were almost 50 photo albums — heavy, embossed ones that require two hands to lift — documenting several decades of my life. No one had really looked inside that cupboard in the seven years we’d lived in London, and the albums had gathered a film of dust. Now, they demanded attention.