Staying at my parents’ house while in my thirties, unable to bear it any longer, I once stole a plastic cupboard from their bathroom. It was a cheap freestanding thing, covered in stickers and filled with teenage gunk, which had become part of the landscape simply by hanging around too long. (Jenn Jordan, a professional home organiser I follow online, recommends taking a walk around your house with “fresh eyes”, trying to see things as a stranger might.) I chucked the cupboard and all of its buried treasures out.
我30多岁的时候住在父母家,有一次实在受不了了,我从他们的浴室偷了一个塑料柜。那是一个便宜的独立式橱柜,上面贴满了贴纸,里面全是放了十几年的旧家伙,这个柜子只是因为在浴室里放得太久而成了它的一部分。(我在网上关注的专业家居整理师珍•乔丹(Jenn Jordan)建议用“新的目光”在家里转转,尝试用陌生人的视角看待这些东西。)我把这个柜子和里面藏着的宝贝都扔了出去。