All throughout London, people are looking at spare rooms or even living rooms and surveying the clutter with a feeling akin to despair. How on earth are they going to get rid of all that junk? Even worse, how are they going to get rid of all the junk within a short timeframe?
Just to make matters worse, the times when people most often have to clear their whole house of bits and pieces – which aren’t always junk and rubbish – are times that are a bit emotionally fraught. At one end of the spectrum, someone might merely be moving house. Not that it isn’t stressful enough, but that is on the least emotionally difficult end of the spectrum. The worst and the most emotionally difficult time when you have to get gear out of a house in a limited timeframe is when someone in the family has died, and the issue of cleaning up after whoever it was faces everybody (more on that below).