The sum will not buy a sofa, a life, or the respect of a stranger. It will stop a rented room from looking as though someone left in a hurry. Spend it on what can leave with you. The paint is the landlord's love language. Let them keep it.

Order returned to a rail by fifty hangers: velvet, slim, numerous enough that a door can close and a black garment can be found.

tea lights that cannot burn the deposit give a table the air of an occasion, and they cannot carry off a curtain. In a rented room, that is not a small mercy.

a clip-on light keeps its beam on the page. The person who wishes to sleep is no longer asked to vote.

a Kilner jar shuts with a click one can hear. Flour remains flour. The worktop recovers its nerve.

The closer product notes, should you want them: here, here, here, here.

When we left, these came with us. The magnolia remained, which was correct of everyone involved.