This could be through upcycling – where waste material is turned into something more valuable – or through giving unwanted items away as gifts or selling them. To be more sustainably conscious, any show promoting the personal benefits of decluttering should focus on ways of preventing unwanted objects from going into landfill. But if shows do not highlight disposing of things sustainably, or not continuing to acquire objects in the future, this raises environmental waste issues. The shows’ focus on the positive outcome of having a tidy and decluttered home is helpful for the individual’s personal happiness. Overall, decluttering shows reflect excessive capitalist consumption in which people are becoming increasingly unhappy with increasing amounts of stuff and are finding greater happiness through owning less. Stacey and her team help a couple with two energetic kids declutter their home and put new systems in place to help them stay organised. But perhaps these good intentions are contradicted by the unsustainable central message of the format which essentially rests on people accruing lots of things, being encouraged to get rid of a lot of them, and then being offered little to no advice on how to stop this happening again. Series 1 Episode 2 of 6 Stacey and her team help a couple with two energetic kids declutter their home and put new systems in place to help them stay organised. For instance in Hoarder SOS there is a focus on selling some items, while in Sort Your Life Out there are clear signs put up for piles of things to donate, recycle and sell. Sometimes shows do consider the wider impact of disposing of objects. As Stacey Solomon new TV show BBC, Stacey Solomon declutter programme and Stacey Solomon Sort Your Life Out are trending heres Staceys best. Only focusing on decluttering and not focusing on how things are acquired in the first place, seems to treat the symptoms rather than the cause. With the UK producing around 27 million tonnes of household waste in 2017, I’m not sure throwing objects into a skip is something that should be celebrated.Īlso, despite these sorts of TV shows being focused on families that clearly have tendencies to accumulate a lot of possessions, there is often little to no advice given to them from the show hosts as to how they might try and prevent accumulating so much again in the future. Are you a working mom living in a house that is stressing you out, and no time to fix it Welcome to Declutter Your Chaos. As mentioned above, throwing unwanted possessions in a skip destined for landfill is described as “fun”, or in the second episode: “This is the exciting bit when you get to chuck it all in the skip”. While some shows just don’t mention where the decluttered items are going to go, others turn the act of throwing them away into an enjoyable event. Perhaps they do find a new home and are re-used – or perhaps they end up incinerated or in landfill. Dont make your bedside table a dumping ground, advise Ingrid and Lesley. Although the objects in these shows seem to magically disappear, they are still in existence somewhere in the world. Some decluttering shows give little consideration of where the large bags of unwanted things are going to end up.
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