Having an organised wardrobe is, apparently, the key to having an organised life. I don’t usually take a keen interest in my wardrobe, but having chatted to a lovely woman whose job it is to sort and declutter them, I’m seeing it through fresh eyes.

And it’s not a pretty sight. For a start, it has no doors – we removed them five years ago to give them a revamp and have never put them back. It is also a storage area for things that we can’t fit anywhere else, like duvets, pillows and all manner of other stuff.

As for the clothes, they’re so tightly packed it sometimes takes me five minutes to wrestle a top free, usually breaking the coat hanger in the process.

Getting access to anything is tricky. The other day I spent 30 minutes prising decades-old coats and jackets apart to find a pair of jeans, and while delving deep I came across a skirt I’d bought two years ago but forgot I had.

It’s like a black hole. And the worst thing is, despite having loads of clothes in it, I stand in front and feel I have nothing to wear – nothing that really suits me, nothing that goes with anything else and nothing I like.

The wardrobe drawers are so full I can only open them a crack, and end up reeling out pairs of tights as though I’m landing a great white. Doing it on a winter morning in the dark is a major challenge, and I’ve woken my husband dozens of times by lugging so hard on a stuck-tight bra that the house shook. To me, drawers with different items of underwear neatly compartmentalised are the stuff of dreams.

To find a newly-laundered pair of matching socks alongside other matching pairs would be like coming across one of the wonders of the world.

I was heartened to learn that all these problems are common, so much so that businesses are run on the back of them.

Having received a few tips, I’m going to take a deep breath and tackle my wardrobe. I'm not going to establish colour-co-ordinated sections, fold jumpers like envelopes and use special shoe trees – that would be taking things too far.

But having a good clear-out is a priority if I’m to work towards a relatively stress-free life.

Most of us use 20 per cent of our clothes 80 per cent of the time. I use even less than that, so there’s clearly a lot of stuff that can go.

I just hope the charity shops have enough rails. I’ll then need to find some nice outfits – and I’m not looking forward to that.