I Really Need a Life Laundry

Clutter, clutter everywhere

What even is a cassette? (My own photo)

I never actually watched the TV show Life Laundry, but I get the premise. In the show, London-based American home consultant Dawna Walter, and house clearance specialist Mark Franks went to the aid of people who had an issue with hoarding clutter.

Sometimes, the unwitting hoarders would be instructed to throw items of sentimental value into a skip with all of their other rubbish. The scene might go along these lines.

“But I’ve had that since I was a small boy.”

“Let it go, Anthony.”

I’m not sure what the Life Laundry team would make of my useless possessions, but if they ever were to visit, they might need two skips.

Obsolete Media and Worthless Trinkets

You see, I have enough clutter stowed away to set up a junk shop, and I might even have considered that option, had my junk not been actual junk, that is mainly obsolete media and worthless trinkets.

I’ll start with the collection that all men above a certain age are reputed to have, the bag of assorted cables. I have a plastic bin full of cables in the garage, and a box of similar in a cupboard. I came this close to taking those in the bin to the recycling centre only last week, but when I hauled…