Once we were a nation of shopkeepers; now we appear to have become a nation of hoarders.

A report today says that we fill our homes with so much clutter that the space occupied by our possessions has doubled in the past 30 years.

From home computers to toys, the growth in consumerism has meant that our belongings now take up nearly half of our homes.

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