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Episode 225 – 10 areas you need to tidy regularly

Do you ever look around your house and see chaos everywhere? Today we’re going to talk about 10 areas you need to tidy regularly to turn chaos into calm.
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[00:00:00] Ingrid: Do you ever look around your home and just see chaos everywhere. Today we're going to talk about the 10 areas you need to tidy regularly to turn chaos into calm.

[00:00:13] Now, Leslie, today. We've got a nice podcast, don't we? 

[00:00:17] Lesley: We do, it's our 10 thing. 10 things is back for 2023 Ingrid. So if anybody's not listening to one of our 10 things podcast, we give you 10 areas. Sometimes a little bit left field. We try to do ones that you might not have thought about of things, and today we're tackling.

[00:00:33] 10 areas in your home, you need to tidy regularly. 

[00:00:36] Ingrid: I know, because after the decluttering, categorizing organising storage, finding the right place, you need to maintain areas in your house so it doesn't fall back and it becomes a massive. Decluttering thing. Again, you need to make sure that you tidy up after yourself.

[00:00:55] Now, we like to call this resets, but I think tidying really resonates. I think people know what we mean when we say tidy. 

[00:01:05] Lesley: Yes. Well, I hope that they do, but anyway, um, I hope that they do, but I think that, I think there are certain areas, what we're going to hone in on today are certain areas where. They just build and, and the clutter kind of breeds, and then they're just like a whole, they look like a whole jumbled mess.

[00:01:20] And I think that's the areas that we're going to focus on and also the things that are going to make a difference to what you do going forwards. So without further ado, Ingrid Yeah. Let us get cracking with our number one. 

[00:01:31] Ingrid: Yes. I think it's, that's the bane of a lot of people's lives. It's coats and shoes. What is it with other people that live in my house that cannot hang up their coats, but fling it on the banister somewhere, on a chair somewhere, drop their shoes somewhere.

[00:01:50] It's like, let's just ah, ah, 

[00:01:54] Lesley: yeah. We're already getting stressed out by the whole situation. So I think when we're talking about coats and shoes, what we're talking about is that kind of gathering place. That's quite often by your front door in your hallway. If you have a back entrance to your house, it might be in there.

[00:02:08] And what happens is people gather shoes and gather coats from elsewhere. Sometimes if you've got them in your house and then all of a sudden, They get hung up if you are lucky or on the floor if you are not so lucky. And then it starts to build and the pile of coats or a pile of shoes just seems to grow.

[00:02:26] And every now and again, we need to do a little reset and put some of the coats back where they belong. Yeah. Now sometimes you may not have a second place in your home for coats. It might be just that one place, in which case, You've got to really keep on top of it. And sometimes it's just about a general tidy, you know, think about that containerization when it comes to shoes.

[00:02:44] What can I do? Can I, can I put them rather than having them all randomly placed, can I use like a truck and throw them in? For example, can I use a shoe rack? Is that going to help me? Are there any coats that are, um, outgrown? If you've got children? We see that all the time and they. Tend to get buried right underneath, don't 

[00:03:00] Ingrid: they?

[00:03:00] Ingrid. I have the perfect example for you. What happened into my house recently, Leslie Max had lost his body warmer, a very nice one. So when he said, oh, I can't believe it. I might have left it at music, or I might have left it at scouts and I don't know where it is. I was like, not impressed, let me tell you, because this was very nice body warmer.

[00:03:21] Not a cheap one. A nice one. And I was like ranting away a little bit. So he actually went back to all the places and found it and came home and said, I, I can't find it anywhere. And then I did a tidy up of our coats, what comes under from like three coats of me and my husband, next body warmer because he hung it up.

[00:03:40] At the wrong place because they've got their own hooks on the bottom, so they're lower and he, for whatever reason, 

[00:03:46] Lesley: that's not really going to work anymore. That might have worked when he was seven. He's now six one Ingrid. I don't think he needs the lower hooks anymore. Have you not moved on from that? He's still there on his lower hooks.

[00:03:57] Bless him. He's having to bend down to 

[00:03:59] Ingrid: like, hi Tony. I know he's still feeling like 

[00:04:03] Lesley: he's seven. 

[00:04:06] Ingrid: Oh, they're high enough. They're high enough. But indeed, so what my point was, Leslie, it got, it got modeled with our coats and then there was a whole panic because we thought it was lost. So this is a perfect example of yes, just do a bit of a tidy up every once in a while because you find stuff you.

[00:04:22] Thought were lost. 

[00:04:23] Lesley: Exactly. Exactly. So let's now go on to number two. And it's not not far away from the area that we've just been talking about. What's our number two Ingrid? Yes. 

[00:04:34] Ingrid: You need to grab that post that comes through the post books, and that normally drops in the hallway somewhere at your front door.

[00:04:42] I mean, maybe if you've got, like in America, they've got these post boxes at the start of their drive, don't they? But we don't have that here. But you need to gather that stuff up and empty it and kind of stay on top of it. Don't let it build up. This is something you want to tidy on a very regular basis. 

[00:04:59] Lesley: I mean, to be fair, we talk about the fact that we don't have things.

[00:05:02] We do have things. I mean, I've got a post box at the end of my driveway. Yeah, that's true. To be fair. To be fair. But it doesn't look like. We are thinking in our heads, we are thinking of those things that we see that are kind of curved, like look, yeah. Aren't we like a specific one, but I'm sure that in all countries of the world, there are some people where the post goes through the letter box into the hallway and there are some that have got something that's at the end of their driveway.

[00:05:23] To be fair, 

[00:05:24] Ingrid: wherever your post comes in Yes. That's where you need to tidy up. Yeah, because 

[00:05:29] Lesley: there are people, and we've definitely seen people who have got a post box at the end of their driveway who leave half the post in there. Mean, and don't take it all in. So you need to give yourself an opportunity to throw away that junk mail.

[00:05:40] That's the most important thing, and to gather and find any actions that you've got. So yes, a post that needs to be kept on top of, ideally on a daily basis, if not every couple of days. Yeah. But it's a really, if you've got like this chaotic entrance to your house where there's loads of junk mail that you've not gathered up that sits there, it doesn't give a great first impression to either guess or.

[00:06:02] To you, you know, you want to go into your house, you want it to feel like a sanctuary. And if, and if it doesn't, and if it's like as soon as you open the door, you've got this pile of post waiting for you, it's like chore, chore, chore, chore, chore looking at you and it's not really the kind of ha that you want when you walk through the door.

[00:06:18] Yeah, 

[00:06:18] Ingrid: definitely. Um, I want to move on to number three, Leslie. Um, we thought about, Kind of samples and toiletries, we find very crowded bathroom cupboards, right? 

[00:06:32] Lesley: We do. Yeah. And so it's so important, isn't it, to keep on top of them, to tidy them. You know, it might not be that you do any decluttering, but sometimes they just.

[00:06:41] Get out of sync a little bit. So sometimes it's just about tidying them up, giving the, the, um, inside of the bathroom cupboard a little wipe. If you have got ones that are um, half empty, bring those towards the front so that you can use those first and you can get rid of some of the empties. Take the volumes down a little bit and definitely, you know, we spoke about this a couple of weeks ago, didn't we, in our, um, reset Your home Challenge Ingrid.

[00:07:05] If you do have samples, you know those kind of freebies that you get from, I dunno, makeup places or toiletries or whatever, then have a used first box. You can have a pull, a used first box together so you can start to use those things up. Because what a lot of people do is they keep those kind of samples for holidays and vacations and they just don't ever use them.

[00:07:25] And then by the time it comes to the holidays, they either forget or they buy something different. Or actually you need a big. Bowl when you're go oldie anyway, and they just don't get used and they're wasted. Yeah. So you need to have a, he needs to have a process, don't you, for those freebies. 

[00:07:39] Ingrid: Yeah, and I think as well, what happens sometimes is that when there's a lot of people that use the shower, you kind of like, what are all these bottles doing here?

[00:07:47] I mean, I found one recently, I bought a specialty shampoo for Anne and she used it a couple of times and just didn't like it. Yeah. But she didn't, she forgot to tell me and suddenly I'm like, And what's this bottle doing in the shower? Do you actually, she said, mommy, I actually don't like it at all. And I said, okay, well next time tell me, but for now, let's just take it out of the shower because.

[00:08:09] If it's half used, you don't use anymore. We're not going to miraculously suddenly start using this product by somebody else. Exactly. So let's either see if it, if we can, you know, give it away an oleo, or we need to maybe empty it so we can recycle the bottle. That's, see how much is in there. But just by having it in the shower doesn't mean that people are going to use it.

[00:08:29] Sometimes people kind of get a new bottle, but the other one isn't completely finished. Maybe you can just decant a couple of bits and just. Cleaning it all up a little bit, just that little tidy makes all then cleaning the shower so much easier as well. It 

[00:08:43] Lesley: absolutely does. So, yeah, samples and toiletries is a bit a bit of a big problem, aren't they?

[00:08:47] So a little bit of lining up, a little bit of decluttering, a little bit of decanting, a little bit of wiping surfaces really does make a whole load of difference. It's something that you see every single day, and so it's something that's really going to enhance your wellbeing. Now Ingrid, I'm going to talk about something that's not applicable to everybody, but it is applicable to some people.

[00:09:07] Thankfully. Thankfully I maybe I'm not, shouldn't be thankful cause that's quite mean, doesn't apply to anymore, which is tidy Ingrid. You are not in the toy world. You've got a bit, a bit of residual toy going on, a bit of Lego, but you're not really in the throes of plastic toys, 

[00:09:27] Ingrid: are you? I know, I know. I do love a toy Declutter though, Leslie.

[00:09:33] When my clients come to me and say, ING England, we're doing your toy. I'm like, yes, bring it on. I, I never 

[00:09:38] Lesley: liked it. Never liked it. I 

[00:09:40] Ingrid: know he didn't. I just really like it. But I think, you know, the thing is when the children are little, it gets. It feels like a thankless task because it goes. Right so quickly because the kids just like pull out different bits and they're like, I've just organised the Legos and the puzzles and the animals and they're all in different boxes.

[00:10:01] And I, but they're like, but I want to have my animals in my O Maid Lego farm. And then everything gets muddled again. But I think just tidying it a little bit daily. Will really, really help you also. Then when you do a couple of times per year, a larger toy, clear out before birthdays or holidays or whatever, then it's not so.

[00:10:24] Chaotic as it normally is. So doing a ti of daily or something is really helpful. Of course, if the kids are in the middle of building a massive train track and you're like, after like the three hours, right, let's study a lot. They're not going to going to be happy. But it's more like, okay, they've played with it for a couple of days, you've, they've moved them to somebody else.

[00:10:42] Come on, kids, help mommy or help daddy tidy this up. Let's put all the, the train bits together again, and that will really, really help you. I 

[00:10:53] Lesley: did have patience at one point with my children. Sometimes I feel like I was never the mother of, of young children, you know what I mean? Cause I'll look and think, well, I would not be wanting to do that anymore.

[00:11:02] Um, so maybe I just gradually kind of got out of it a little bit. But yeah, I just, I don't think I would, I wasn't really good at letting things sit for four or five days. I think I'd be like, okay, we tie that away. Now my children don't appear to be scarred for life, so we're okay. So, but yeah, you definitely need to keep on top of toys and I think it's really important for them to.

[00:11:22] See what's going on so they can start to think about the fact that they've got to let things go. You know this. Mm-hmm. The thing that you were talking about, Ingrid, where you do it a bigger Declutter a couple of times a year, it's so important to cement those ideas of you can't just get and get and get and get all the time that you've got to give things, you know, from a decluttering and a space perspective, and also from being kind to other people and passing things on perspective.

[00:11:44] Yeah. So really important to keep on top of those toys, but I think anybody. Who has young children will already be doing some version of tidying their tis every day. Cause it's 

[00:11:53] Ingrid: completely, I know, it's just like putting the pencils together. Right. Or when they've been like doing arts and crafts, you definitely want to tidy that away.

[00:12:00] I mean, you never want to leave any glitter or glue unintended when there's small hands. When it gets quiet, you know, there's trouble. Um, but yeah, just do a bit of a, a tiny little bit and it will. Help you load in the future. Now, another left fielder Leslie for are 10 areas to tidy. Um, now number five is just take some of the empty hangers out of the wardrobes.

[00:12:26] Don't let empty hangers clutter up your rails. 

[00:12:31] Lesley: Yes, it's really important. Now, sometimes we don't have anywhere to put these hangers, and so sometimes it's about more about tidying them up and putting them to one side of your wardrobe. If you have the opportunity to take 'em out of your wardrobe, put 'em in an island basket, put 'em in a laundry room.

[00:12:46] If you're lucky enough to have one, a utility room, then that's super useful. But what you don't want is odd hangers interspersed within your clothing cause it kind of messes up your clothing. You, you know. It. You need to have those hangers for when you're doing your ironing and all those kind of things as well.

[00:13:02] And so tidying the hangers, because they become a little bit a ride, aren't they? You know, they kind of, when, you know, depending on how you take things off hangers, some people kind of like wisdom, pull the things down and you know, and then the hangers go a little bit schiff and so you really need to. Keep on top of those hangers.

[00:13:18] I think it's really important, you know, when we see wardrobes all the time for clients, don't we? The most messy wardrobes that we see are not that messy. Once we've taken out the empty hangers, um, it, they look messy because of all the empty hangers, don't they? Yeah. 

[00:13:31] Ingrid: Oh yeah. And the thing is, they get kind of cross on the wire as well.

[00:13:35] So then you try to get another one out, but you can't because there's an empty one blocking the other one, or it's just gone. Yeah. I don't know. It's just, it's, it's really creates the fact that. You've got too many hangers on there. The rail is too full, and then you can't even look through what you have because you can't move the clothes at all because all the ties are, are just blocking that.

[00:13:57] So it, it has to be the visibility as well. 

[00:14:00] Lesley: Exactly. You know, we're big, we're big into, um, taking away barriers, aren't we? And so if we think about the empty hangers, there's lots of barriers in there. English. So it's barriers to stop us from doing the ironing cause we've not got the hangers in the place that we need them.

[00:14:12] It's a barrier to us getting our clothes out because it's more awkward because things are crossed over and you've not got any space. The clothes have got no space to kind of move along the way a little bit. So all these barriers stop us from doing what we need to do on a daily basis. So just get into the habit of looking at those probably on a weekly basis, I would say would be more than sufficient and either taking the hangers out, if that's possible, or, um, pushing them to one side of the rail so you know what's empty and what's not empty.

[00:14:38] Ingrid: I love it. So let's go for a break and then after the break we'll come back with five more areas. We think you should tidy regularly. 

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[00:14:45] Ingrid: Hello everyone. Welcome back. We are talking about the 10 areas you need to tidy on a regular basis. Before the break, we've talked about the first five. We are continuing with our list, so let's talk about number six, Leslie.

[00:14:59] Lesley: Yeah. Now, depending on how. organised you are and how on top of things, this might be a bigger job than it might seem. So I'm going to go for filing tray. So, or wherever you keep your paperwork that you are going to action. And so I think, you know, that kind of in tray almost needs to be sorted out on a regular basis.

[00:15:19] The reason why it needs to be sorted out on a regular basis is because you need to determine what needs to be done, what actions need to be taken. What needs to be filed and what needs to be shredded. And so you've got a good handle on your life admin. And so it's really important, you know, we don't have to organise the filing tray every single day.

[00:15:34] You know, we, we talk about the fact that we wanted to get the post from behind the door every day, and then we go into the kitchen, we do a little bit of recycling, then we just dump the stuff. Um, in our filing trade, and we tackle it probably on a weekly basis if, well, that's what I do anyway. You know, sometimes people might get away with fortnightly, but mostly it's on a weekly basis.

[00:15:53] Uh, but it's important to keep on top that you've got, so you feel in control of what needs to be done. 

[00:15:58] Ingrid: So helpful to do this because as soon as you lose sight of the paperwork, It, it gets, it all gets muddled in your head. It's really strange how that works, but it's like, yeah, there was a bill somewhere and did I paid it or not?

[00:16:13] I don't remember. And when you just once a week just sit down for an hour and do a little bit of life admin. I mean, Leslie, we've got a whole course about life admin in our membership. And that's how important it is. Yeah. But once you get on top of that, your whole life starts to run more smoothly. And that's why we have chosen as one of the areas you need to tidy directly.

[00:16:34] You can't leave paperwork because you, if you don't action paperwork, you will get reminders and you will get letters and more emails and you're, you're just creating more work for yourself if you don't do 

[00:16:48] Lesley: it. And are you practicing what you preach, 

[00:16:50] Ingrid: Ingrid? Yes, I do. Leslie re you. 

[00:16:53] Lesley: Honestly, you absolute Fiba.

[00:16:55] Before she came on this podcast, 

[00:16:58] Ingrid: she said, 

[00:17:00] Lesley: she literally said, oh my word, I need to do my filing intro. Am I 

[00:17:04] Ingrid: right? Well, okay, let me, okay, let me do, okay, let me just tell you then. I stay, stay on top of my normal like day-to-day filing, like my things that I have to do very well. But I have indeed a little bit of a backlog of putting it in my filing system.

[00:17:21] Yeah, that's because 

[00:17:22] Lesley: your filing systems rubbish, Ingrid told you this. Too many barriers with those files. 

[00:17:30] Ingrid: Oh, I love my, I'm, I'm going to, listeners, I'm going to immediately now just move on to the next week because otherwise, We're going to go off on a massive, massive tangents. Number seven on our list is the junk drawer.

[00:17:45] Yes. 

[00:17:46] Lesley: I'm still, I can't believe you just shut me down when I was saying something very valid that our listeners would've liked to hear. But anyway, yes, the junk drawer. So, you know that we, we love what we like to call the draw of useful things. And so we believe that in a kitchen you need a few little bits and barbs, not loads, but a few little bits and bobs that really.

[00:18:05] Don't have a natural home that's going to sit with other things. And so there are random objects that are kind of useful to keep close at hand and that's what we like to call art draw of useful things. Or often it's known as a junk draw. And so we think that even if you have, whether it's a junk drawer, whether it's a drawer of or organised things, it needs to be gone through regularly to make sure that there's things not gone into there that shouldn't be in there.

[00:18:29] Everything that's in there needs to be organised, containerized, and useful 

[00:18:34] Ingrid: I think. Yes, and the first time you do this junk drawer, it's going to take you a while, but trust us, once you've decluttered and organised it, the tidying then becomes a breeze because you do that, you know, maybe once a week, once every two weeks when you pull something, you're like, oh, let me just do a quick.

[00:18:52] Two minute, three minute tidy up. And it's just so helpful because it also then you know exactly what's in there. You know what's all right. And when you're looking for something, it's not like, let me go into the depths of the junk drawer and just kind of keep my fingers crossed that it's in there. You know what's in there.

[00:19:10] Then. 

[00:19:11] Lesley: Yeah, definitely. No. So a junk draw is a really useful thing to keep on top of. And we have actually gotten a whole podcast on the junk draw as well, which in we will pop into the show notes if you want to really delve deep. And if you want to go in on that junk draw one night, then, um, it's really useful to listen to the whole podcast where we'll put a little bit more.

[00:19:29] Meat on the bones, as it were. And 

[00:19:31] Ingrid: if you want to find our show notes, go to Declutter Hub dot com slash 2 25 and you will find all the links that we mentioned and all the things and other interesting bits as well in there. So go to Declutter Hub dot com slash 2 25. Now the next thing on our 10 things is the.

[00:19:49] Pantry, give your food cupboard, your kind of, um, your pastas, your rices, your tins, your kind of all the things that live in it that are not really like fresh foods. You want to give your pantry a regular tidy up. 

[00:20:05] Lesley: Yes, exactly. And the reason why we need to do this again, it's very similar to the kind of toiletries idea as well, that we need to kind of almost have an inventory of what we've got because, you know, food, we are buying probably even more regularly than toiletries to be fair.

[00:20:18] And we quite often go there. Sometimes we don't always have a list and we buy things that we need. We buy things that are on special offer. And what we need to do is we need to have an idea of what we've got, so we make sure that we're not overbuying. Um, and also so that we can start to meal plan around the things that we have got.

[00:20:35] And you're only going to do that if you've got that kind of, um, over that overarching view of exactly what you've got. And the way to do that is to go into that food cup to tied you up with regularity to make sure that you use in, you know, even if you get to, you know, pasta, sometimes people, you don't always get to right at the bottom, but you have a few little bits of pasta left.

[00:20:53] You know, just do a meal. You might, might not be ideal, but put two or three different types of pasta together and get rid of those. Kind of half empty bags and things like that. So keeping on top of your pantry is something that I probably do, um, every three or four weeks I would say. Mm-hmm. I obviously keep on top of it.

[00:21:09] I'm putting things away a little bit, but every now and again, it gets a little bit full and, and I kind of will tag you up, line things up a little bit and see where there's anything that needs to be used I can use in some kind of meal the following week. Yeah, 

[00:21:20] Ingrid: and definitely see if you can do a first in first out system.

[00:21:25] Now this is something I learned when I was training to, to work in hotels. When you buy something new, always put it in the back of the cupboard and make sure that the older stuff comes to the front, so you use that first. So, for example, if you've got, um, six tins of tomatoes, the new, if you buy a new one, put that behind it and use up the older ones first.

[00:21:46] And this way you can prevent stuff going out of date. 

[00:21:50] Lesley: Absolutely. So Pantry, and you could attribute the same thing to maybe not, not so much your fridge, although there are things that hang around for a while in your fridge, but definitely freezer, you can absolutely do the same thing. Keep on top of these things so we're not, um, encouraging food waste.

[00:22:04] It's really important, isn't it? We can save some money. Yeah. Which is what we all want to do at the moment. Yes. Okay, so Ingrid, we're onto number nine and we do love one. Do we love these? Within, they're necessary. In some houses, we don't really have one, but we know loads of people have got one, and we know in order for them to be sensible, you have to tighten them up all the time.

[00:22:24] So 

[00:22:25] Ingrid: Ingrid, yes, it's the gift cupboard. If you are a person who. When they go out and see something, think, oh, that would be a perfect gift for my aunt or my sister, or my mom or my brother-in-law, or whoever it is, and you buy it. You have to have a place somewhere in your house where you collect all these things because if you

[00:22:45] Put it in random places. You will not remember that you've bought something for somebody and then later you go, I thought, I, sure I have thought I had a gift. And now, but it's somewhere out there. So you need to create a gift cupboard somewhere. But it also means that regularly you need to tidy up this gift cupboard because then you remind yourself what you've already bought and things don't linger in there for months or sometimes even years.

[00:23:11] And of course, the longer they're in a cupboard, the worst state they're going to get. 

[00:23:16] Lesley: I think you're right. It's about, again, it's about this inventory. A lot of this tied in serves. Yes, of course it serves the tide. You can take the chaos away, but it stops over buying, doesn't it? It stops so it, it means that you can use the things that you have bought to good purpose, and so I think it's.

[00:23:30] A lot of it is all about those reminders, and so a gift cup is a perfect example of that, A gift cupboard. Again, we've done a whole podcast on gift cupboards as well, so do check that out if you want to delve a little bit more deeply on gift cupboard. And what exactly are we talking about when we mean a gift cupboard?

[00:23:45] So if some people have them, some people don't, and if you do, then you need to keep on top of it on a regular basis. 

[00:23:51] Ingrid: Yes. Now let's move on then to our last. Area that we think needs to be tidied on a regular basis, and that is your handbag or your work bag. Yes, 

[00:24:04] Lesley: because we used to don't have throw a load of junk in there, do we?

[00:24:07] You in the course of a day. Do you know what I mean? We just throw everything in. Don't you can all men are random things. Bit of sweetss, bit of few tissues, some makeup, you know, all these things in women's handbags anyway, work bags are even bigger corporates. Cause there's, there's papers and files and all that kind of stuff.

[00:24:23] And we really need to make sure that we keep on top of things. So the things that we put into our work by comes out. Get utilized because you know you have a pack of mints that you put in your bag and they'll sit in there for 18 months and then by the time the 18 months you don't want to eat them again. And so it's really important.

[00:24:37] The same with makeup is a big one. You know, people put makeup in their bags and then by the time they get round to it to seeing it again from coming from the depths of the bag, then you think, oh, that looks a bit manka. I don't want to use that. And then it's just wasted, isn't it? Yeah. 

[00:24:52] Ingrid: Yeah. And I think you know, it, it's changed it's receipts, it's parking tickets, it's, I mean, W anything you can think of ends up, and also in work bags, a lot of snacks and foods.

[00:25:02] And maybe, you know what I see a lot here in London is when people commute, they, they go to the train or the bus on their, on their trainers, but then they've got like their work shoes in their bag and you know, sometimes they're in there for ages, but the work shoes need a bit of love, care, and attention as well at some point.

[00:25:19] But because they're in the back, you just keep dragging it back and forward and the backs can get really heavy as well. 

[00:25:25] Lesley: Yeah, definitely, definitely. So, yes, the last one on our listing with handbags or work bags. I like our 10 things list. I think that's a cool list that's going to give people a little bit of food for thought.

[00:25:36] I think there's an element of making things look tidier in there, and there's an element in having an inventory of what you've got, so you remind yourself. Of what you've got so you can start to use these things and you don't overbuy. So the combination of those two things are going to take a little bit of the chaos out of your life, but it's what, which is what it's all about, and and mean that we are going to use the things that we've 

[00:25:55] Ingrid: got.

[00:25:56] So tell us, we would love to know what are you going to tidy up this weekend? Have we inspired you to take action? Let us know in the show notes. Tell, share a comment with us slash 2 25. We would love to know, or maybe you can share in our Facebook group, tell us what you are going to tidy maybe, or maybe you found something else you think, well, I was listening to your 10 things, but something else completely else.

[00:26:22] Popped into my head that I'm going to do. We would love to see and hear what your action is all about. And next week, we of course, are back with a brand new episode, and we're going to be talking about helping others to Declutter or others helping you. Ooh. I can't wait. So we'll see you then.
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