SPACE INVADERS EPISODE 5Faye and Maddison Marriages break down all the time. Some of us drown our sorrows with gin, some jump straight onto Tinder for some dating therapy and others indulge in some cheeky hoarding of sheet sets. Faye is in category number 3. She isn’t coping after her marriage of 30 years ended …
If you have watched The Home Edit or wandered through Ikea you will know the appeal of containers. Even Marie Kondo has succumbed to the trend and now has her own collab with The Container Store. But do containers actually help us get organised? Should I put my clutter into containers? Yes and no. Containers, …
As children get older, their stuff changes. Pieces get smaller. Duplo changes to Lego. Wooden trucks are replaced with remote-control helicopters. Eventually there are fewer toys and more devices and chargers. But when it’s on the floor, it’s all clutter, and getting kids to put away their stuff is exhausting. Some of us have the …
Acquiring belongings is easy. A quick scroll through Amazon or Etsy, a few hours at the shops, a Christmas. Before you know it you have armfuls of shiny new things. Letting go of stuff is the hard part. Our attachment to material objects starts early in life. We love our things, as you know if …
I started sorting my stuff by colour recently. It began with my phone. It made me feel productive during a time when everyone on social media was constructing jigsaws or learning a new cuisine. It also created long lasting calm, reignited every time I looked at my rainbow-inspired masterpieces. I moved on to the bookshelf, …
Decluttering and making decisions go hand in hand. The process of sorting, tidying and culling household items involves making constant decisions about go or stay. – Do want it? – Do I need it? – What is the definition of need, anyway? – And what if I need it later?Decluttering and making decisions about what …
So you have watched Marie Kondo and The Home Edit and you want to be one of those people whose lives are transformed. You want to be surrounded by bare surfaces, organised cupboards and room to think and breathe. Maybe you made a new year’s resolution to declutter. Now you are wondering… Decluttering. Where do …
Property styling and selling your home is a big process. You need to: Research prices of similar properties so you know what to expect. You could consider getting an objective valuation or leaning on your real estate agent to give you an estimation. Which brings me to… Choose a real estate agent. The agent will …
The Wear Again pile is a grey area in our wardrobes. What do we do with the T shirt worn for a coffee dash before it was back into pyjamas? And the shorts you wore briefly yesterday before the weather turned chilly? And that warm jacket worn in the cinema the other day… To wash or not to …
Look around and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed at the amount of accumulated clutter. As we go through life it inevitably builds up around us. Old dancing awards, too-small football boots, university text books and squeezy balls with logos on them. It can be useful to identify the categories this clutter falls into, so here …
