On New Years Eve of 2018, journalist Helen Chandler-Wilde lost everything she owned in a storage unit fire in Croydon, where shed stowed all her possessions after a big break-up. She was left devastated, and forced to re-evaluate her relationship with owning material things. A mix of memoir, self-help and journalism, Lost & Found explores the psychological reasons for why we buy and keep the things we do, and explains how we can liberate ourselves from the tyranny of too much. Helen interviews people from all walks of life, including behavioural psychologists on the science of nostalgia, a nun on what its like to own almost nothing, and consumer psychologists on why we spend impulsively, to help us better understand why were surrounded by clutter and what we can do to change it.
