So, Sackville started writing a manifesto for mess.
‘I couldn’t see the point of it.’Ī line popped into her head: ‘Has anybody got to the end of their life and wished they’d spent more time with their steam mop?’ The answer, obviously, was no. Now we also have to have a perfect home?’ she says. Oh, and we have to have, you know, perfect bodies, perfect children, perfect relationships and perfect lives. And I was, like, seriously? It’s not enough that we survive motherhood, survive this very complex world, survive the pandemic. The book was also, clearly, aimed at women. She won’t say which one, but it was all about keeping ‘a pristine’ home: how you should do ‘housework schedules’ and why you need ‘a turbo mop’. She was at home in Sydney when a publisher sent her a book about cleaning. You can’t see it because heaped on top of it are piles and piles of clothes Kerri Sackville thinks everyone has The Chair. The title is a play on Marie Kondo’s neat-girl Bible, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying, and the message is about – no surprise – why the right amount of clutter is good for you. This week, the Australian author will publish her fifth book: The Life-Changing Magic of a Little Bit of Mess. Sackville, 54, is something of an expert on matters such as The Chair. After all, if it’s not on the floor, it’s not real mess – it’s a storage solution!’ But they remain on The Chair.’ Maybe The Chair offers respite? ‘When you’re too houseproud to drop your clothes on the floor, but you’re too tired to put them back in the wardrobe, The Chair is there to save the day. Could they be hung in the wardrobe while waiting for the mythical ironing? ‘He claims that the clothes are there because they “need ironing”. ‘Even my very neat partner has a chair,’ says Sackville. Maybe it’s an office chair, wheeled away from its deskly destiny.Įither way, it doesn’t really matter: you’ve never sat in The Chair and you can’t see it because heaped on top of it are piles and piles of clothes.
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