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Episode 259 – 10 Organising products worth investing in

It’s fair to say that products to assist you with organising your home are all the rage at the moment. Every time you scroll social media you see a new gizmo or gadget that is going to change your life. Today we are going to talk through some of the organising products that we think are worth investing in.
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It's fair to say that products to assist you with organising your home are all the rage at the moment. Every time you scroll social media, you see a new gizmo or gadget that's going to change your life. Today, we're going to talk through some of the organising products that we think are worth investing in.

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You're listening to the declutter Apple podcast, bringing you tried and tested no nonsense tips and advice from the leading experts in decluttering, and organising your home. Now here are your hosts, Ingrid Jansen, and Lesley Spellman.

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Hello, and welcome, listeners. I'm Ingrid. And I'm Lesley. If you're new to the declutter hub podcast, you're so welcome. What you'll find is that we try and find a fun factor in the serious business of decluttering. And if you've been here for a while, you know exactly what we mean. So thank you so much for listening. If you'd like to get involved in conversations relating to this podcast, it all takes place in our Facebook group. So come and join our lovely, warm, supportive community. To find the Facebook group go to declutter hub.com, forward slash group to find out more, or you can search for the declutter hub community on Facebook. So Ingrid, when we were thinking about a podcast, we thought, you know, what, we've not talked about organising stuff for a long, long time. And what prompted us was a couple of weeks ago, well, a few weeks ago, now, you ordered a load of organising things, didn't you from a place for everything, which is one of our favorite stores in the UK. And you were very excited by some of these things that you had not had for years, or not had ever sorry. And so you bought some new organising products. And so it got us thinking about products, because we were chatting about whether you liked them and how they'd worked out and the quality and all those kinds of things. So that prompted us to think about a 10 Things podcast. So we're going to talk about some organising products that we think are worth investing in. There's a lot of rubbish ones out there.

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I saw something the other day that I thought, oh my word. Why do people would want to buy this. I mean the most, I think they just trying to think of stuff, just random stuff for us to buy because they want us to sell stuff and spend our money. But I think you know what, there are good items out there that can really help you. So yes, we indeed kind of got inspired by my whole big books that I that arrived at my house of stuff that I've ordered, but I think we've really got a nice 10 Things list going here. Let's see. And we love a 10 Things podcast. So I think we should just get cracking down we but before we do that, we need to tell everybody about the lovely review that we got from Joe. Joe said Dear listener, Ingrid, I wanted to drop you a line after listening to your episode podcast. 249. Clearing the home of someone who has passed away. Your podcast has made me think about the situation from my parents home and my two siblings. I think your podcast will be invaluable at proving structure and the realities of the situation. I would never have considered the declutter expert for this job before. I definitely would now if I could find the right person. Thank you for your invaluable advice each week. Although I am organized your podcasts give little sparks of inspiration. I always find them entertaining and enjoyable. Normally, whilst I'm doing my ironing, thank you, Joe.

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And I do love it. Well, I do love a podcast you know to kind of I like when do you when do you listen to podcasts? Ingrid I listened to them when I'm putting my makeup on and getting ready in the morning before I go to bed. That's when I in the car. I listened to them while I'm walking in the morning. So I walk. I tried three times a week in the morning to walk like half an hour or so. And you can then kind of fit a podcast in. Right Okay. And do you listen to our podcast? Well, yes every week because I need to make sure that that of course they are edited in right way because we laugh a lot when we record but yeah, oh no. Thank you, Joe. And it was an interesting one actually episode 249 Because we delve into the details and with what to do when someone passes away we talked about sensitive house clearance what we like to call it it was a good one on we got a lot of comments and reviews on that one. So if you haven't listened to it do take a listen. Episode 249 And before we start talking about our products, Ingrid, Utah it was able to let me get a word and I was about to say

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If something and literally she kind of moved on to the next thing, so I feel compelled to say that if people want to see your little hole that you got from a place for everything a few weeks ago, you did a little video, didn't you? And that little video is now sitting in YouTube. So if anybody wants to see Lee bleah of Cordelia then that's my daughter's name. Ingrid unboxing video of her stuff from a place for everything do pop into our YouTube channel, and watch it. And of course, hit the subscribe button lie there. Yeah, exactly, exactly. So yes. It was nice. It was nice. But let's get cracking Lesley, because a 10 Things podcast always takes us forever.

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So we need to start with number one. Number one, our shelf dividers. Yes. So what we're talking about when we're talking about shelf dividers that are useful, and they only useful in certain situations. So we're talking about something that kind of clips onto a shelf, that device the shelf vertically. So what these are fantastic for, amongst other things, is handbags. Okay? Now the problem is that a lot of people have not got a whole shelf to give up for handbags. But if you are lucky, and you have either a different room or a different wardrobe, or you have a big walk in wardrobe, or a decent shelf on your wardrobe that you can give over to handbags, and you have lots of handbags, it's a great way of dividing up your handbags, being able to see them visible and making sure more importantly, that they stand up. That's the thing. handbags are always like a big mishmash in the bottom of wardrobes or dusty and, or maybe sometimes on the back of doors and back doors is not perfect, because you've got to kind of take them all off. And so that's why if you've got the space, a shelf divided of handbags is a really good solution. I have that in my daughter. We like them. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I don't have enough handbags to do that. But I know plenty of people who love a handbag and this is like a really nice solution. So yes, definitely. That is our number one, isn't it, Lesley. And if you're wondering, I don't know what they mean. We actually have got a little shop on Amazon where you can have a look at them to see how they look like and if you're like oh, and then find out some more information like kind of what material and what them normally acrylic. But yeah, if you want to kind of go and have no measurements and all of that kind of thing. Have a little look. And we'll put the link to our Amazon shop in the show notes as well. So you can kind of go and find us there. I think as well and good. What we're going to try and do although this might not happen, we'll say is we're going to try and put some little images of the all the individual products in our YouTube video. So if you're watching this on YouTube, you probably will get a little kind of visual of that. But I don't know yet because we've not done it before.

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That actually happens. So, so yeah, so I love those. I think they're a great solution to a tricky situation, but they can only be useful. If you've got the space I'm not going to lie. People use it as you know, people use those shelf dividers as well. Like if you've got a big wide shelf, you can also use them for like T shirts and stuff. So if you've got a shelf, that's, you know, a metre wide, you can divide your shelf up and and slot in T shirts. So it's not just for handbags, it's for loads of other things where you want to divide the shelf vertically. Yes, I know what this is for. Yes, great. It's absolutely great. Right number two, draw our dividers. Same principle really. But this time you are dividing the space horizontally. Am I right? Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah, just thinking about this one's vertical ones definitely horizontal is vertical as it sits in the drawer right? Yeah, yeah. It was that vertical or horizontal? No, it's horrible. I would say horizontal because it sits up oh yeah, I see what okay, you're confusing me now. You're confusing me anyway. But drawer dividers Yes. can be very handy actually not even listening to me and see how how she dismisses my important thoughts about horizontal because we're gonna go down but gonna go down in a whole rabbit hole of I see I see you in B Johnson trying to move things along. We got to get we got to be somewhere.

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This podcast like I don't know why not allowing any time for everything to sink in.

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Your name what important things you got to say about drawer dividers that I can't say. Like it's up to you could say lots of sensible human drawer dividers. But it doesn't matter if they're horizontal or vertical people know what a drawer divider is. And I think the thing is, the larger the drawer, the handier it is to have some sort of drawer divider in place. I mean, if you got a teeny tiny drawer, you probably won't need drawer dividers. Big owl though a small kind of plastic container or something or even like books from a phone can come in handy. But if you got lost

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Aren't your drawers, then I think drawer dividers are handy. Okay, so what kind of drawer dividers can you get? You can get fabric drawer dividers, acrylic drawer dividers, you can use cardboard, if you want to use a shoebox or an iPhone books or something like that. But once you get into an iPhone box

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and the drawer dividers that are useful and that are commonplace, I would say the scope ones that you get from Ikea that are almost like boxes, they do divide a drawer up and they all kind of interlinked together. So they're fantastic and get this from Ikea, and they're really good value. And if you want something a little bit more meaty for a wider draw, then the acrylic drawer dividers that go from back to front, horizontally or vertically, which way you look at things. Those are those are useful as well. There's wooden more sustainable versions of those kinds of things. But very much the most important things to think about before you launch into buying drawer dividers is what do I need to put into each division or each divided? Part? What would that component compartment, or whatever, really important to think about what needs to be stored before you go out and buy the solution first. So of course, you can go down the IKEA route little boxes here and there. Or you can go down the kind of bigger solution. And with like acrylic drawer dividers or something like that, yeah, there's loads of fantastic ones. And they kind of expandable, right? Yeah, I mean, some of them are not some of them are I mean, so many options. So you will get need to probably get the measuring tape out to make sure that you ordered the right thing and that you need to think it through. And this is why also, we are big favourites of doing these kinds of organising products later in your decluttering journey. We always say you need to do the decluttering first and the categorizing then the organising, and then you look at the storage solution slash organising solutions. Because you need to first find out where stuff lives before you start to order new stuff. And that's a message you will hear time and time again. We never say yes, start off with buying lots of stuff. And kind of we'll see where we end up with. We're like no, don't buy anything. Verse declutter and organize and put it in the right place. And then look at what kind of box solution am I going to buy to make it even more helpful for myself? Okay, let me go off my high horse there, Lesley, because before you know it, this whole podcast is going to turn out in something different. Let's move on to number three, which is an analog clock. Which kind of sounds old fashioned Lesley. Yeah. So let's explain what an analog clock and just clock is just in case people don't know. So you've got a digital clock, which has got digital numbers on it. And you've got an analog clock, which is one of those it's got minute hands and our hands and possibly second hands that goes around and has the numbers on it most of the time. And so the reason why an analog clock is handy in the organising World is if you have ADHD normally use really useful for ADHD. We picked up this tip many many years ago, didn't we from some of the ADHD experts that have been in our world. So they think this one from like, from Lesley Giselle, most ADHD experts will are big advocates of analog clocks. And the reason is, you can see sometimes when people get up people have ADHD and get kind of caught up in the moment. And they become a little bit time blind. And so hyper focus is a big part of it. And you know, obviously be lay all this, those kinds of things form part of the cold ADHD world. And so it's good to be able to see the time passing on on an analog clock, you can do that on a digital digital clock. It's hard to see that time moving forward. So that is why people in the ADHD world are very big advocate of an analog clock, and we would concur with that wouldn't be Ingrid. So talking about Lesley, who was probably the first person that I heard this from, even before she came on our podcast, they she spoke at an outdoor conference like ages ago, like eight years ago, something like that.

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And she's a big ADHD expert, particularly when it comes to ADHD, for kids. And so definitely check her out and definitely check out our two pocket. We got two podcasts with Lesley. Yeah, thanks. Yeah, really early on in our podcast in time, we'll pop the link to Lesley's podcast in the show notes just in case you've not listened to them. So there's loads of fantastic hints and tips about executive function and ADHD and all of those kinds of things that are related. So yes, an analog clock. Yes. And the top tip here is not just one analog clock in one place in the house, actually, analog clocks in different places, especially if you've got a family with multiple people with ADHD. You just don't want to have an analog clock somewhere in the hallway, but you want to have an indicator

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Kitchen, in the bathroom and in the bedroom and in the study. And so time really becomes a lot more in the focus of people. So yes, an analog clock, I think is an excellent product to put here in our list of organising things that we love. And good. I've got four analog clocks

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in one room.

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There's a reason why I've got four analog clocks in one room, I have all the different time zones of the people that we work with, right. And so it reminds me of what time it is because we have people working with us from all over the world. And so it's really important for me to think about whether they were in bed or up or late or having their dinner or whatever. So I've got four analog clocks. The difficulty is keep making sure they all keep tying together. So I keep having to change them all. But they look kind of nice as well. Yeah, I know. Anyway, take a picture and put that in the Facebook group, Lesley, of my clock. Yes. Okay, you can actually see that it is really true, what you're saying that we're not just telling a bit of rubbish here on the podcast, because I mean, I know it's true, but I'm gonna write this, I finally have a task for you, Lesley, you love giving me time. But you've got to write it down and put it into Asana.

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I'll do it. But you need to write it down and make sure that as best I will, I will definitely do that. Because I love giving you stuff because you always give me stuff.

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All right, let's do number four in our list. And of course, it is a firm favorite of ours. And that is of course a label maker. I mean, who doesn't love a label maker? That's like the best thing ever. And several members have actually asked us, What label maker Do you have? And then come back and say, I've bought it too. I've gone into your Amazon shop and I bought the one but we now have to label makers in our little shop, don't we, Lesley? Because we had one that we've used for years and years. But recently you've upgraded to another one. And yeah, we both like and don't we? It will come as no surprise that Ingrid's still on the kind of older version that's not digital.

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i Right.

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The QWERTY keyboard, which is fantastic. I'm not trying to knock it. But I've gone on to the digital one that uses an app and you print it out and you do everything on your phone with design. And it's all fancy and stuff like that. And it's Bluetooth. And I said to him, would you need to get one of these new label makers. It's amazing. I like the one that I've got, thank you

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doesn't want to upgrade to a more modern finish. And mine still works. And why would I replace something that still works? Now? I'm maybe not gonna I mean, it's gone really well for me. But if it breaks down or something, then I might go. Yeah, but yeah, I'm in when are you just waiting for things to break down? Honestly, how many times do I have to drag you kicking and screaming into the next generation? And then you go, Oh, yeah, actually, I really like it. And I wish I would have done it years ago. You're totally right, Lesley. That's normally how it goes. But yeah, I'm frugal like that. I'm like, there's nothing wrong with my old label, label maker, and you've got plenty of opportunity to pass your level back on to someone who's gonna like, okay, that is true. That is, oh, there you go. Now you're forcing me to buy something.

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Tell you what, go into our Amazon shop and buy it though. Yeah.

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But we do like a label maker, don't we literally, whether it's a nifty digital one or an old fashioned one that you have to type in stuff. It's the fact that a label that is neat comes out, and you can just stick it on, they're easy to peel off either. They work on shelves and drawers and on little containers. And it helps, right especially when you're doing lots of kind of organising and reorganising to kind of keep track of where you're putting words. I think that's the I think it can be useful in two situations. So I think it really is the icing on the cake at the end of an organising project to really kind of dot the i's and cross the T's to make it all look beautiful. I think it's also super, super helpful to people who struggle and need that visual reminder of what things are. I think they're incredible for children as well. You know, and if you get a more modern one in grades, you can actually put pictures on there and stuff like that nicely easily. So I think there's there's no reason not to use a label, or Mako in my opinion. I just you know, and people once you've gone down the label maker route, you never returned to you Ingrid. And now that is true. It's a bit of an obsession, right? Yeah, you know what, it's so funny and I got something to work with a client and then unseen him for ages and then they call me back a long while later, and the labels are still there. And still the basis of the system is still there. It really helps with putting away items and I think that's why it's crucial. Listen, we can we can wax lyrical about label makers for for long, but let's move on to number

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Five at Christmas light Oregon nicer. It's a string light organizer. So it's basically a holder that you can wrap Christmas lights around. I mean, how fabulous is that? I mean, the most arguments, I think at Christmas are about untangling the Christmas lights and then putting them in the Christmas tree. So yes, there's actually holders where you I mean, of course, you can use a piece of cardboard, right? You don't need to have a string light organizer, but I saw them and I thought that is handy. As I said, that will make me quite happy as well. It may give us a piece of cardboard. I feel like a Christmas light string. What is it Christmas string light organizer? Would it elevate me to a new level of organization? I haven't got one by the way, I'm just shoving the Christmas lights in the box like everybody else. But I think the point is, when you take down your Christmas or any other dicket decorations here, we're not just talking about Christmas, anything that you might want to use fairy lights for might be in the summer might be some other celebration or Festival. It's brilliant to put in that extra little bit of time when you put it away to save yourself all the heartache when you get it out six months or a year later on, you know, oh my word and then he's fighting and then it's not working. And we've got to go out and you ready to put your lights on and they're not working because we're all tangled up. And it's just all very stressful and isn't it whereas if you put the time in when you're putting things away, we're big advocates of that. When we do our countdown to Christmas course. You know we we have an end bid which is what do you need to do to make sure that you're ready for next year already this year? You know, it's all about putting the time and isn't it? And so yeah, now's a great time to start thinking about those kinds of things as well. So you've got your Christmas light. What is it Christmas light gifts and Christmas lights string? Christmas string light organizer in place ready for when you want to take Christmas lights down? Yeah, I love it. I love it. I'm super excited about this thing I know. But yeah, got one right, you got one. So have you taken your Christmas stuff out of the loft and strong your lights around it? Are you waiting for Christmas? I'm waiting for Christmas. So I've put the string light organizers will now with my Christmas decorations was aborted very randomly couple of weeks ago in the middle of the year. People might think Wow, are you actually thinking about Christmas in the middle of it? Well, I happened to see them and I thought that is very handy. I didn't notice it. You only bought one. No, no. No, I bought two packs of two. Oh, did you buy also unit bought one, right? Yeah, I was thinking like one Christmas string like organized. It's not going to do all your lights. Is it but you've had that covered? Well, I'm glad that you're organized enough to think about that. In a sense. Yeah. So let's go for a break. And then we'll talk about the other five. I got Hello, everyone. Welcome back. I'm feeling good. A bit like all hot and flustered about this whole, but I think we've I have to calm down a little less. Yeah, I'm feeling like, I'm getting all. Anyway, I'll tell you why you're feeling hot and flustered because this is your thing, right? So you're the practical one with all the organising solutions and the boxes and all that and I'm the one that's more emotional and psychological. And I'm kind of taking you on.

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That's why you will have impostor do I want to hold your own? I know, I know. I have to stick up for myself. So I'm going to move on to number six, acrylic fridge organizers and containers. That's the whole thing. Now Lesley rich scaping is like the 2023 I think buzzword. We want to get all things out of plastic and put them in nice acrylic containers to put in the fridge to your fridge looks nice. Well, you know, you talk about the kind of fridge scaping. Everyone's like, what is that? And we heard about fridge scaping last year and then we heard about tablescaping. Anyway, the clean and tidy Home show last year we were like how do we not know about these things? So basically, it's about making your table look lovely for celebration, making the fridge lot love light. Jury's out on acrylic fridge containers. I'm interested to see what you think. Because I know it was in your little video that you've got one set up but you only got one, right? Yes. And that's interesting because I have gone down the fridge scaping route while haven't just gone into buying acrylic containers, my fridge to hopefully make it look a bit better. And I've gone back to one I'd had to and I thought it was more cumbersome to have it than it was to not have it. Yeah, I've been to one so what do you think what do you think? You know what I That sounds a bit crazy. I like it, but you do give yourself a little bit of extra work because of course you know when you buy grapes or strawberries or something or fruit in a plastic container, you could just put it in the fridge. When it's empty. You recycle the plastic container and you throw it away but when you fridge escape it

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You take everything out of a plastic container to put it in acrylic container. But then the acrylic container does get dirty. So that needs to be washed again in the dishwasher. So it does look very nice. But I haven't gone all out and now am like acrylic containers and everything because I do think it's quite a lot of work. So I would maybe if you're thinking about this, maybe just start with one or two containers and kind of see if you like before you splashed all out on loads of these things. I mean, that's definitely what I did. Because I I'm with you, I thought it has to be, it's nice to make things look nice for sure. And it makes you you know, it makes you feel good and all that kind of stuff. And it looks lovely. And it's a sight to behold if you're that way inclined, but I had to and I was like, I think I actually only need it from a fruit because I keep my fruit in the fridge. And I think I was trying to put other things in there that were just why am I putting those in there because they don't need to be in there. They just need to be in the fridge. And so I've gone back to having one I do have a lazy susan in that. So an acrylic Lazy Susan which is one of the circular things that spins round from our bottles as well which is super handy. And I've got one normal container like oblong container that I use my fruit so I've got two things actually in there. But I did have the Lazy Susan and the two and two but it just was overkill. I thought Yeah, nothing but realism here, isn't it Lesley? Yeah. It's got to be we can't go for form over function ever can weigh in my opinion. Well, maybe in some things, but not not in a fridge or in a corporate. Yeah, we've got to make things functional things have got to work and make things easy for yourself unless you unless you know making things look beautiful is more of a driver for you than the you've got is compromised isn't it? You've got to decide what do you want? Do you want it to look really nice and have a little bit more work if you're if you're that way inclined? Or do you want it to be easy to use and you're going to forfeit the they'll look a little bit with you survive without acrylic containers the last 100 years that we've had fridges on the fridge has been around maybe I don't know the 94th electricity when did electric

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I think that's longer Lesley

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way googling When did electricity suck? Why not gonna get loads of people leave comments on our podcast? Like, what are you to like you're not ancient. You did not like live at the start of the last. The only thing we know about is decluttering anything to do with general knowledge or mass will come completely how'd it like could you tell me and every now and again something blitzed out of my mouth? i Why did I say that? Because there's a whole load of things that Yeah, but you know lots of stuff but you'd like other random things like when the electrics

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go When did electricity Give it your best guess I wouldn't have I'm thinking I would say like that. It's like it that's industrial revolution, isn't it? That's like a Yeah, you know, like 1900s or something. Seriously, I mean, this is what we get listeners now I'm gonna have to go write this down gold, but I'm sure somebody's gonna laugh really hard at this and go inguinal as he What are you like it? This is when electricity started and this is why the first breaches What if I haven't probably was fridges before electricity, like a different version of a fridge. ice blocks.

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Oh my gosh, we are kind of completely gargle. This is why we never get anything done seriously. So we're still on number six. So yeah, if you want to enlighten us about general knowledge, please do so because it will be super helpful for us. So we don't completely i Okay, number seven Engrish number seven broom holders. Now this is very handy. And you've recently used them as well Haven't you in a client's house. So when you said this is really handy, this is like the best thing ever. This is not just really hard. Have you got one? I got one no, do you know what is probably not a great thing for you because you haven't got like a utility room where you could put something on the wall. You'd have to kind of have it in your kitchen on a wall and then it would be on display and you've got cupboards wall to wall in your kitchen. Yeah, so that's probably why you haven't gone down the amazing route of a broom holder. So what I mean by that is you can kind of get these things that click if you haven't got one you definitely need to watch this one in the shop again. Go and check it out to see cuz it's quite difficult visually to explain. But basically you put something on the wall of suction holds the handle of a broom of a mop, you can kind of put I even put my Hoover Roger call it hose thing in there to hold the hose so that doesn't fall over stuff like that. And basically it keeps everything off the floor so it mops can dry out. It makes it look nice and nice. Nice and

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Eat and it stops it from falling out. But absolutely brilliant. And it's like, I don't know, 10 or 15 pounds, maybe something like that for this amazing thing, once it went out, put them into clients houses, which are very very, very often do if I'm doing utility rooms. They're like it's the best thing ever. And I would agree. And you need one I need to find a space in your house where you can put one I know maybe I need to put one in my garage for like my like, yeah, outdoor brooms and stuff. Yeah, but in your garden. Yeah. But your garage, you probably do something different there. Yeah, I'm not sure that one. The ones that I'm talking about are a little bit more domestic. A little bit more dainty. Yeah, Raj brooms probably need a different solution. I was Yeah, yeah. Can you put one year behind you? You know, like little utility cupboard where you have things? Where do you put your brushes and stuff? Yeah, I've got a utility cover. But I think because it's only the outside wall that's I think strong enough to hold it because the rest of the walls I think I'm gonna I'm gonna investigate Lesley this can be maybe putting people on the list. This is a very good addition to this house. So to be buying from our shop, you can we can get some commission

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can't get commission on your own shop. Now, by the way that we have to complain, our Amazon shop does have a really, really, really, really miniscule amount of commission that comes to us. That's not why we're doing this podcast. But we do have the shop, which will give us a little bit of commission if you buy from there. And so we have to come clean and say that because we're showing you all these products, we have to sell it, we will get companies literally like half a pea

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making our millions on shelf, that's for sure. It would be really nice if you did go and buy something from that. Anyway. Anyway, we've got another good one. And number eight, we found a garage sports bin that you were like, I love this. I mean, yeah, I suppose I was sporting.

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I really like her I'm really like this is something right. So if you can describe it, Ingrid, because you can have to describe it, you know, so that people can visualize it. It's like a a rack with bins on it. And that you can put things like sports equipment in so like tennis balls or tennis rackets and cricket bats and whatever baseball bats and that kind of thing. Like all the kinds of things you need to play a sport. So it's all in one place. And it can go into a garage or a shed or utility room. So nothing is like loose on the floor, or people can trip over it. And we I think we saw it somewhere else. And we thought, wow, that's an amazing thing. We should definitely put that in our Amazon shop because it looks great. It looks functional. And yeah, we kind of both really liked it, didn't we? Yeah, because I think when I'm working with clients, typically what I'll do is I'll try and find an old dustbin or something like that,

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to make sure everything's containerized this is all about containerization. And this garage sports bent containerized is in a really nice nifty way because it's subdivides that so whereas you'd have, I've just put things into a dustbin or something. And they would fall down a little bit and not be really subdivided and not be that easy to get things out. Because you'd have to kind of rummage through a little bit. This one was really nifty in terms of the whether it's subdivided the back the backs and the rackets that had little sections for balls and footballs and stuff like that. I'm not quite sure how much you'd fit in there. You know, if you've got little kids and you've got 10 footballs, they're not all gonna fit in this garage, sports bit organizer, but a few rackets. I thought it was a really nice solution. I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, yeah, it looks, it looked good as well, which I think is nice and needs to be practical. But it also looked good. I think that's maybe that's what attracted us to it, I think, right? Number nine, a battery organizer can be so helpful. But don't make the mistake of getting a tiny container because that's what we see, we see all these lovely tiny battery containers. And as soon as you have more than like six batteries, the tiny battery container is completely useless. So we've gone for a bit of a larger battery container. And of course, batteries are not good for the environment, a lot of these things, but yeah, there are loads of stuff that run on batteries. There's nothing we can do about it. So we have batteries in our lives, hopefully rechargeable, but that's not always possible. So you need to store the ones so you know, which are in good condition to use, you know, and you need something that can hold all the different battery sizes because you've got triple A and double A and huge batteries and smaller ends and ones that are rectangular. It's all a bit like where do I put this stuff and then we found one, which also has a battery checker in it. Now that's handy. Ingrid lives, eats and breathes battery organisms. There's one organized product

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that she just loves it for me. It's the broom holder for Ingrid. It's the battery organizer. All right, am I right?

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As Yeah,

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because I find you so happy I can just imagine you there have an evening just randomly go through your battery organizer and check in on which charges levied on each battery with your battery checker. But you know, unless you for years, you've done that, right? Of course I have.

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Because for years and years and years in my clients houses, I find batteries in 12 different places, nobody knows if they're still good, or if they're empty, or if you know, all these random things. And when you can just contain it in one place,

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then you could you know where they are, you know, whether they useful if they're working, if they're not working, you can put them in a separate bowl to put them in a recycling spot, which are loads around the country here. You know, you can put them in, in shops and in, in libraries that have battery kind of points where you can put the old batteries in. It's so much better than throwing it away so that you create a little system for yourself. And I think that's what I like about it. You'll love it down. You

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do

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it all the time. I can't even tell you how often she talks about battery organizers. But anyway, it's time for number 10. Ingrid and we are going to go back to basics with a truck. Yes. Now you love a truck?

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You do? I don't know whether I've got any any more. I loved them beyond loved them. When are children? Well, I do still actually have children but like when they were when I had toys when I had toys. That was when when my children had toys? Because and shoes. Yeah. And balls, would you use them for balls outside toys. So what we mean is those kind of wide, colorful, round, normally, containers that are flexible. You know, it's better if you get flexible sides, that you can lift and carry from one room to another, that you can chuck stuff into that it's not too big that you lose everything. But there's big enough that you don't have to micro organize. You can call a code with them. They're not massively expensive. How many ways should I talk about a trolling grid? I know I had them to Lesley, when the kids were little and the toys were much bulkier. I definitely had two or three of them. I think in my living room at the time I can't remember now and then they got at some point they got repurposed for something else and then they got repurposed again for in the garage and we we use my husband uses them in the garden fearful when weeding or you know what, you know, you can do even wood watering them to wash the car. I mean, that's super handy. Yeah, definitely. I've worked out where ours are. Now, while they were thinking, I'm like, Where have they gone? Because I don't remember like getting rid of them. And we use them for an ice bucket when we are

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when we're out

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of vehicles and all the big goes in them in the wind and stuff outside of revenue outside party. Perfect, right? That's the thing. You can use them in so many different ways. They last forever. They you know, they're just they're good quality ones, we I mean, the one Sambalpur super good quality. You know, you can really carry stuff around, you can use it for laundry to carry laundry around. Like if you have to get laundry from inside or outside or hanging up. You can multi multi purpose a truck? Yeah, I agree. Good call. Good, good. So I don't know about you in life. And this has been, I hope this has been

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a little bit helpful in terms of the way our minds work with organising products, you know, we've talked about form over function a little bit to make sure not the other way around, make favoring function over form. And we've talked about not macro organising, working out whether a system is going to work for you not going all in until you've tried something out. We're real big advocate advocates of using what you have. Sometimes there are times when things look a little bit prettier by going out and finding the solution. But you will know when the time is right. But the most important thing on a decluttering journey is that all this stuff that we're talking about, is that right at the end of your decluttering journey and not before you even get started. Don't get sucked in by these organising products that promise that they're going to change your lives because they're probably not. And once you've got a handle on your stuff, where it's going to live, how much of it you've got, that's when you make the decision about what kind of organising solutions are gonna work for you. I think that what I love Ingrid is we only buy things that we think are super helpful. We've got people in this, listen to this podcast that are from all over the world. They will definitely be organising things that we've never seen that we have no idea about, that we would love to hear about in terms of the way that they work. And so if you've got an organizer

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solution that's worked for you that you want to share with the Facebook community share with Ingrid. And I will look into it and test it out if we can. And we will absolutely be adding we'd love to add more things to our Amazon shop so that other people can get the benefit of your knowledge about what organising products generally work. So do let us know we'd love you know, just pop over a link and Amazon link or whatever, or a picture or something like that. So to give us an idea, because we're very reliant on you guys telling us the kinds of things that are working in your homes. We know what works in our homes, we know what works in our client's homes, but we don't know what works. There's so many different scenarios different, you know, climates different. You know, there were comps constantly amazed that we buy things that we have not thought about. Well, yeah, just to mean that things that are standard in our country that we don't think about in other countries. So we're relying on you and we'd love to hear from you. Yeah. Excellent, excellent idea. So thank you so much. I hope you're still with us. I know we've got a bit of a DD there. But that kind of always happens with a 10 Things podcast, doesn't it? Allegedly, we kind of go off on these massive kind of tangents when we talk about things. But we hope this has been helpful and we can't wait for you to listen or maybe watching our YouTube channel again next week. So thanks for being here. We appreciate you.

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