Guichet: Let's declutter!

Your closets, drawers, filing cabinets, hard drives and vestibules are overflowing everywhere, and you don't know what to do with all those children's toys, shoes, pots and pans, souvenirs and other physical or digital paperwork? Whether it's in your daily life, when you're moving or when it's time to take care of a loved one's belongings after their death, it's hard not to find yourself at a loss when faced with the accumulation of objects in our lives. Where do we begin? How do we choose between what to keep and what to throw away, and why is it so difficult not to accumulate?