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Why organise?
12:56 pm : 27th August , 2010
It may seem like a silly question to ask, when you can’t find your phone, and the teapot has disappeared under the recycling, but asking yourself why you want to be organised before you start, is key to making sure you have an approach which will make the decluttering you do in your home, last.
If [...]
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Brian: You’re all individuals! Crowd (in unison): Yes! We ARE all individuals… From ‘Life of Brian’
1:42 pm : 23rd April , 2010
One of the most common traps people fall into when organising things in their homes is assuming that there’s a ‘standard’ or ‘ideal’ way to do it, or for it to look, when they’re finished. Often our ideas of how a well organised home should look are subconsciously influenced, not by real people whom [...]
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Stardust….
9:57 pm : 30th March , 2010
Last time I posted a blog about what I call ‘buying hope’ in the form of objects to solve problems or anxieties (real or imagined), and how it can feel impossible to stop or to concede defeat by letting go of them, much less making your own healthy solution. This time, I want to talk [...]
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Buying hope…
11:56 am : 26th March , 2010
I just did a book signing at the Ideal Home Exhibition in London, and there was a big display with copies of my book ‘Banish Clutter Forever – How the toothbrush principle will change your life’ for people to browse through. The organiser told me that although they had books and talks scheduled by much [...]
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