There's lots to unpack here

Moving house is bittersweet. There's tons of decluttering to get through, to make room for new memories. Here are my tips

- SEEMA GOSWAMI

The BBC show Sort Your Life Out gets families to lay out all their personal possessions in a huge warehouse and then take stock of what they need. It's the wake-up call clutterbugs need. SHUTTERSTOCK

It is often said that moving house is as traumatic as a death in the family. And while I certainly wouldn't go so far as to put these two things on par, there are certainly some similarities. There is a sense of finality, of things ending, when both these events occur. There is sorrow, a sense of loss, a feeling of dislocation; it's almost as if you lose your bearings in the world.

But as surely as day follows night, you find your bearings in your new surroundings. There is the sense of a new beginning as you lay down to sleep in your new bedroom and wake up to make breakfast in your new kitchen. And before you know it, this house that seemed so alien when you first moved in, becomes by some mysterious process of alchemy - a space you call home.