We all start so innocently. A box here, a container there and – presto! – the chair becomes a table. It’s OK, you think. It’s not.

In a small place, things are weighty. Not physical, emotional. When you walk, when you lose things, when your home is a bit untidy, even when you are by yourself. Finding our additional info for latest update!

The solution, declutter. You hear it all the time. But it’s not that easy. I may need some of these things, but not today. So I have a little storage unit, and I’m happy.

You don’t need a big unit. Smaller is better. Don’t move house. So you only have to cart around less crap.

What do you need for a week? Clothes, some other bits and bobs, work stuff. What about all the other stuff, the seasonal, the junk, the maybe stuff. That’s the junk.

Store the junk in mini storage and your house feels bigger.

It’s not but it feels bigger. Corners open up. Surfaces clear. You don’t have to stack things on top of things. And it seems a little bit bigger and you feel it more than you think.

I got rid of two suitcases, a fan and some papers from my apartment. I didn’t notice that much. But you notice when you come back in. The apartment was quieter. Less full, less full strangely.

Here is the key. It’s not storing, it’s sorting.

You put things somewhere. You put things around it. It’s not there, but it’s there.

And you don’t move things. You don’t have to decorate it on weekends. In, out, gone.

Admittedly, you have to be a bit careful. But not an eyesore. But if you’re careful, it’s a free room.

That’s why it works. Not because it’s cool but because it works and it’s not the end of the line.