stuff

“Been doing lots of styling and all that stuff,” she said, nodding toward a rack of clothes in the hallway of an Airbnb in the hills above West Hollywood.

"When loading our belongings on a cart, I put my children on top of it all and tell them to play with the items, like the kitchen stuff," Hadeel told me.

"Well, I just want to put this out there, and I'd love you to publicise this as much as possible: I do say no to stuff," Ranganathan jokes to BBC News.

Wanting the next best thing, holding on to things for sentimental reasons or just a lack of time to sort through your space can all mean you end up with too much stuff.

To the side lay a stuffed panda doll, dusty and discarded on what remained of a kitchen counter.