personalSunday, September 20, 2026
Today's personal section is about the bookends of domestic life: the practical skills you need when you first leave home, and the emotional weight of clearing one out for good. Both pieces run in The Guardian and share a quiet, unsentimental clarity about how we inhabit spaces.
One guide teaches you how to start living independently; the other reflects on what it means to finish.
It's a list of 48 practical rules for anyone living away from home for the first time, covering cooking, cleaning, social etiquette, and health. The value is in the specifics: water your plants, get an eye mask, learn to cook a few real meals.
Ellen Rogers writes about sorting through her late mother's possessions after 97 years of life. The piece is less about decluttering tips and more about the emotional math of deciding what to keep and what it means to let go of a person's physical history.
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