I used to care what others thought of my taste and style. But then these words set me free

November 5, 2026 — 7:00pm

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I have a gift for you. I have developed a life-changing theory which simply goes: Whatever. Who Cares? It could be as transformative as The Let Them Theory, but I have neither the time nor discipline to turn mine into 80,000 best-selling words. So let me explain Whatever. Who Cares? in around 800.

I’ve recently moved house. Downsized into a townhouse perfect for our little family of fun-but-slightly-fading Gen X parents and one Gen Z daughter on the precipice of her never-home era.

It’s been brutally exhausting to sift through and responsibly chuck a combined 128 years of junk, but enormously liberating. It feels so good to declutter, detach, decomplicate our lives. To intentionally embody enough-ness. To go from the family who had so much excess, you’d think we were preparing for a zombie apocalypse, to now having just one of what we need – and no more.

Though, as a card-carrying sentimentalist, I can say it hasn’t been easy. I am a collector of stuff and hoarder of memories. I loved my things and miss being surrounded by them. When space is........

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