COVENTRY, England: “Homes across Britain looking fine on the outside but secretly they’re drowning on their inside ... Homes, people, lives, they’re crushed by loads of stuff.”
A standard format involves a tour of the home of a family struggling to live with large amounts of clutter. The family’s belongings are then all taken away to be sorted or are sorted in their house. Although the objects in these shows seem to magically disappear, they are still in existence somewhere in the world. Perhaps they do find a new home and are re-used – or perhaps they end up incinerated or in landfill.
Also, despite these sorts of TV shows being focused on families that clearly have tendencies to accumulate a lot of possessions, there is often little to no advice given to them from the show hosts as to how they might try and prevent accumulating so much again in the future. Overall, decluttering shows reflect excessive capitalist consumption in which people are becoming increasingly unhappy with increasing amounts of stuff and are finding greater happiness through owning less.Can we learn to repair things instead of throwing them away? CNA's Heart of the Matter dives into what's impeding that virtuous circle in Singapore:
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