Two full days can seem like a lot, but check this guide for how to use your time effectively to declutter your home in a weekend. Starting with the most important zones, we will talk you through hotspots and hiccups.

It’s not just you – managing clutter is getting harder. Consumerism, mass production, marketing, less time and more stuff means we can hardly keep up.

Space Invaders Season 3 features Peter Walsh, Cherie Barber and Angie Kent waving their magic wands on cluttered homes across Sydney, and transforming lives in the process.

Why does your house seem to descend into chaos? Why do problems pop up on their own, while solutions demand effort and energy? Murphy’s Law

Grouping Like with Like helps with decluttering, so you know what you can safely cull. It helps with organising, so you can find things easily and intuitively. And it helps with maintenance, so you don’t keep buying duplicates.

Clutter is too much unnecessary stuff. Disorganisation is lack of order. Mess occurs when you don’t put things away. When they overlap, chaos is inevitable.

Have you heard of clutter churning? It means moving items around in an attempt to get organised, when actually you need to declutter. Clutter churning

OHIO – only handle it once – was devised for managing emails. The nifty acronym dictates that opening and dealing with an email in one

Whether you are decluttering or setting up a kitchen from scratch, here is a handy guide of the essentials.

If you are going to declutter and organise, do it right. Avoid these common pitfalls like trying to do it perfectly, starting too big, and keeping too much.

A lot of the clutter I encounter in clients’ homes consists of little jobs they have put off, and put up with. An unhung picture frame, a dead light bulb, a squeaky door.

Space in the kitchen and home is valuable real estate. How can you maximise it? Many of us would love a bigger home, more rooms,

Junk drawer = shit drawer? Julie discusses junk drawers and how to manage them with ABC radio host Adam Shirley, who calls his the Shit

The Two Minute Rule is as follows: “If an action will take less than two minutes, it should be done at the moment it’s defined.” The reason is that it would take longer to organise and review the task than it would to actually do it.

A lot of clients tell me they make too much mess when they try to declutter, so they give up. But it doesn’t have to be hard.

If I had a dollar for everyone who looks at their clutter and says “I have no idea why this is here”, I’d be rich.

Tidying up is something you do as a teenager to get your parents off your back. Since you are not 13 any more, stop tidying

Fashion is a big polluter and a cluttered wardrobe is not fun to use. So. How many clothes do I need? Depends – are you an minimalist or a fashionista – or both?

Being organised means fewer nasty surprises. Being a hot mess can have interesting results. Which end of the spectrum are you on?

The cost of real estate these days is eye-watering. Living in a smaller space might be a necessary sacrifice to stay in your chosen area.

If you have a lot of clutter in multiple rooms, hiring a professional organiser to make over your entire home is not fast or cheap.

Figuring out how many T shirts you need is one thing, decluttering sentimental items is more difficult. Emotions get in the way. But I have

I am asked this a lot – how many undies should I own? How many dresses do I keep? How many T shirts can I

Sometimes we need to take a step back and look at what we are storing, and why. This includes our wardrobes. Does your wardrobe reflect

The term ‘hoarding’ can be used pretty loosely. Clients often ask me “am I a hoarder?” and are relieved when I say no. On the

ADHD was once only recognised in cheeky young boys. In recent years the definition has expanded and a link between ADHD and tidying up (or lack thereof) has become clearer.

Are decluttering and mental health connected? Definitely, and it works both ways – they impact each other.

It can be a big stumbling block for aspiring declutterers – what should I do with my stuff? Keep, donate, discard, sell?

Junk drawers have a bad reputation. Is it deserved? Comedian Jimeoin has a little song called Third Drawer Down, poking fun at this known phenomenon.

Peter Walsh was ahead of his time. He was talking about clutter in the early 2000s before it was cool, and way before Marie Kondo had roll-folded her first organic cotton T shirt.

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

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

Look around and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed at the amount of clutter. As we go through life it inevitably builds up around us. Old

In the modern era of too much stuff it’s difficult to imagine a time when people saved up for their furniture. They ate meals on

Pantries can get pretty messy and it’s hard to know where to start. Well here goes: 1. Take everything out and group roughly by category. 2…