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Halloween Special

31/10/2018

APDO (the UK-based Association of Professional Declutterers and Organisers) has graciously accepted and published another one of my guest blogs. It's timely, too, as the focus is on Halloween.

Don't be too scared now, this will hurt only a little bit! Wooooo!

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Passing it forward

25/10/2018

An important part of growing up is being taught life skills by your parents. Some of those skills involve active telling how to do things, explaining how stuff works, or showing how to do things properly.

Some of the life skills, however, kids pick up without being actively told: they see what their parents do, and how they go about doing it. And that part of learning is subconscious on both parts, parents and their children alike.

Leaving things behind

18/10/2018

Let’s assume you are in the right mindset to declutter a part of your life or a section of your home.

You have started going through a selection of things – maybe a shelf with memorabilia, a box with photos, or even one huge shelf along the side wall of your garage. You may even have gotten to grips with taking all those small decisions involved with sorting what you want to keep from what no longer serves you.

bookshelves: interest-based books

11/10/2018

There are several categories of things that I tend to come across in the homes of most people I work with.

Pretty much all of my clients have these things: clothes, paperwork, and books. And most of those clients tend to have at least one of these three categories that have grown out of proportion and have turned into a problem.

A sense of security

4/10/2018

The relationship we build to the things we surround ourselves with bears more than a fleeting resemblance with our human relationships: we go in slowly, get acquainted with a presence, then take that presence for granted and normal.

And ultimately there comes a time when we could scarcely imagine a life without that person – or those things – that we have welcomed into our life. But sometimes that relationship has to end.

Halloween Special

Passing it forward

Leaving things behind

bookshelves: interest-based books

A sense of security

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