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Making more space
Mint New Delhi
|January 17, 2026
It's time to be intentional with what you let into your home and life, and leave more room for the things that really matter
No new hangers. The thought first occurred to me soon after I moved house late last year. While unpacking, I noticed that nearly a dozen of my hangers had rusted. Mumbai humidity has a way of quietly claiming everything. My first instinct was to order new hangers, but then, I glanced at the clothes already hanging in the closet. I gave away a dozen clothes instead.
Since then, no new hangers has become a principle I'm trying to apply to other areas of material ownership. No buying more things if there isn’t space for them, and more importantly, no creating new storage space just to accommodate more stuff. In a city like Mumbai, where homes are crunched and storage space is a luxury, this rule reinforces a truth we already know but often forget: we don’t need so much stuff in life.
This story is from the January 17, 2026 edition of Mint New Delhi.
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