The cult of storage: is tidying really the fast track to a happier, healthier life?

It was watching the rerun of Channel 4 makeover show Making Space (first shown in 2004) that sucked me into this earlier this year. Until then, I had been happy to embrace innate untidiness as one of my superpowers. OK, my home was in danger of resembling that old Yellow Pages “I’m afraid you’ve been burgled” advert, but I had always been happy to blame the chaos on the fact that I lived in a relatively small space.