Could you live 21 days without your television? How about without your phone? Or a mattress? Or, how about… clothes?

This is the premise of Channel 4’s latest programme: Life Stripped Bare.

Life Stripped Bare sees three households take part in a “life changing experiment.”

According to research, the average Brit owns 1,000 items and checks their phone a staggering 200 times a day. Additionally, around one in three of us have enough unused possessions to fill an entire bedroom.

So, naturally, Channel 4 producers asked themselves: “What do we really need to be happy?”

On a quest to discover the answer to this age old question, they decided to conduct a social experiment in which three households were stripped of all their material possessions, which were then put into storage. The group were not allowed to beg borrow or steal any items (apart from food and drink). Think Marie Kondo's tips for living a cleaner life, but without getting to choose.

Life Stripped Bare: Channel 4's latest show sees millennials try to survive for three weeks with no possessions