JAMIE CARR: Tongaat Hulett – smelling a king-sized rat

And One of the enduring wonders of the millennium is the proliferation of eccentric job descriptions. "Decluttering expert" is among the best of them. Getting paid to tell people to chuck out their junk is an achievement, no matter how much you dress it up with the gospel of high priestess Marie Kondo.

But for those who can’t quite bear to get rid of the accumulated oddities of a consumer’s life, there is always the option of chucking it into storage.