Welcome to the Cult of Decluttering

THE spring clean is not what it once was. These days it’s not enough just to dust down your picture frames and beat the rugs. We are, after all, in the era of minimalism, the new frugalism, and that means it’s on trend to have less stuff. The backlash against stuff is hardly surprising in our consumer-driven culture. As Alain de Botton says: “The more chaotic, abundant and junk-filled a society, the more its tastes in interiors will incline towards the minimalist, the austere and the tidy." So spring these days is really more about the declutter than the clean. It’s about people having a great big life-tidying festival, as the experts put it.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16144606.Welcome_to_the_Cult_of_Decluttering/?ref=rss