Episode 210 – How to Declutter and Organise Your Home – Spaces you need to organise first

One of the questions we get asked when it comes to decluttering your home, is where do I start? Decluttering your whole house has lots of moving parts, but in this podcast we are going to talk about the 5 spaces you need to consider when starting a decluttering project.

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[00:00:00] Ingrid: One of the questions we get asked when it comes to decluttering your home is, where do I start? Decluttering? Your whole house has lots of moving parts, but in this podcast we are going to talk about the five spaces you need to consider when starting a decluttering project.

[00:00:20] So, Lesley, today we're talking about spaces you need to organise first. Where are we going with this?

[00:00:28] Because we can go a lot of different ways with a topic like this, but we've got a clear vision of what we want to tell our listeners today, don't we? We have, I mean, it's 

[00:00:37] Lesley: kind of like the million dollar question, isn't it? And it's everything that everything we teach is all about is. Where do you start first?

[00:00:44] That's the most difficult question that people find. People are kind of like, I just dunno where to start. And as we said in the intro, there's lots of different moving parts. It's not as simple as, well, you just need to start here. You know, typically within our membership, within our teachers, within our challenges, we talk a lot about the fact that you need to start with a room that's less emotionally difficult.

[00:01:06] And so what we can't do in this podcast is explain the rationale behind where we start and the roadmap that we use in our membership. But we wanted to give people five things to consider. When you are getting started, they are going to be a bit of a game changer. 

[00:01:22] Ingrid: Yes. And I think for us, and that's one, I think that gets skipped out a lot.

[00:01:27] We need to talk about safety because houses that have a lot of clutter, I. Can actually be quite dangerous. Now, this sounds a bit dramatic, but we have seen it, Lesley, trip Hazards, things that are topping and falling over onto people. I mean, we've all seen, you know, the, the, the articles from the newspapers that people have actually been, got, gotten stuck under a lot of stuff when their houses were very, very full.

[00:01:56] But safety is super important when you're decluttering. 

[00:02:00] Lesley: I think it's interesting 'cause I think the people who live in quite full houses find a way of navigating things around. So they typically do feel quite safe 'cause they know where the hazards are. But it's when we come in as professional organising into a, into a house or when you invite guests into your house, that's when it's super important for things to be safe.

[00:02:17] And so, Safety is everything, and also logistics. And so it's not just about, you know, hugely, um, cluttered houses where things are going to topple on top of you. You need to make things logistically easier as well for yourself so you can exit and enter the property quite simply. So, I think the first thing that I typically do if I go to a very full house is, and we're thinking about safety, is we definitely look at stairs and whether your house is full or not.

[00:02:45] I think we can safely say that a lot of people put stuff on their stairs with the best of intentions to take those things up with them when they next go upstairs. But often they linger, don't they? Ingrid? 

[00:02:57] Ingrid: Oh, yes. The stuff on the stairs that everybody walks past and then you start to not see them anymore and then somebody.

[00:03:04] Put somebody else. I think we had a really good example in our membership of somebody who said, I actually bought a stair basket and I actually ended up buying another stair basket because actually the first basket didn't work and didn't help. Now, by being in your membership, I've realized that stair baskets aren't great at all, and I'm actually decluttering them both.

[00:03:24] But we put stuff on the stairs with the intention to take it up and put it down somewhere else on the first floor. So, Things linger and kind of get left there. Yes. 

[00:03:38] Lesley: Yeah. And so I think that one of the very first things that we do when we're going into a, a house to work, uh, to work on is that we make sure that it is safe and so we clear those stairs.

[00:03:47] Now, at this point, you don't necessarily need to do a decluttering projects on your stairs, and if it is the stuff that's going upstairs, typically it's going to stay anyway, but you just need to move it off. The stairs. So before you embark on any space in your home to declutter, you really need need to think about that safety, and you need to think about clear pathways.

[00:04:06] So that might be the stairs to make those safe. It might be a clear pathway in and out of your house to make sure that you can easily take the stuff. Out, hopefully that you are, I was going to say in and out, uh, but there might be, hopefully there's not as much stuff coming in and it's all going out. Um, we need to make sure that we've got a, a decent pathway to get out with the stuff that we are decluttering because moving bin bags full of stuff to, to declutter, to take, to charity shop, to take the trash to recycle.

[00:04:35] They're quite cumbersome. They're quite heavy. They're difficult to manage sometimes. So we definitely need to give ourselves more step space than we would just as a. You on your own. Yeah. You need more space around you for the BIM bag, don't you? 

[00:04:48] Ingrid: Yeah, absolutely. And I think that's also what I wanted to talk about.

[00:04:52] In, in, when we talk about safety, make sure that your door can open fully, whether that's the front door, the back door, the side door, all of your doors, even the doors that you have. To go into a room if there's stuff on the back of the door or behind the door, and it makes it tricky to open a door fully.

[00:05:11] It's tricky to go into that room, but also that tricky to go out, especially when you're carrying stuff in your hands that you want to. Put outside or move to another place so it's not only the stairs and kind of the pathways, but definitely also make sure that room doors of rooms can open fully because you are helping yourself so much.

[00:05:32] Because it gets a lot less hard work to open a door than if stuff behind the door. It creates a barrier and it gets in our way and we get annoyed with it and we're like, oh, and I can't get through properly. And then, It's hard to get stuff out and that's what we don't want. We want actually it it for you to make it easy for yourself to take stuff out because then it'll be easier for you to do it.

[00:05:57] Lesley: Yes. So safety is the first thing that we need to consider. Yeah, when we start a decluttering project. Now, for some people that's going to be more important than others. Um, you know, some people who've got those sort of doors that won't open. It might not be that the rooms are very full. It might be that there's a load of dressing gowns or something on the back of the door, or there's something that's fallen down that's obstructing it.

[00:06:18] But think about that. Safety. Very, very important. It's something that we as professional organisers have a very big handle on, isn't it Ingrid? Yeah. 

[00:06:26] Ingrid: And, and, and, and also one of the first things I do, Lesley, even like with the, at the front door when there's a lot of posts behind the front door, because of course a lot of our, uh, post boxes are in our front doors, and then people just forget to pick up the post, or there's too much of it.

[00:06:42] A lot of times the first thing I do is grab the post from behind the door. So first of all, so I don't step on somebody else's post, which would be not good, but also then because it can, if it builds up, It can make sure that your door can't open fully. So, yeah, very important. Number one, Lesley? Yes. 

[00:07:00] Lesley: And so now let's talk about things that are going to make the job of decluttering easier.

[00:07:05] Ingrid. Now we've talked about pathways, haven't we? Which is very, very important in terms of logistics and getting in and out of the property. Yeah. Anything else that we can think about that's going to make the whole job of decluttering 

[00:07:16] Ingrid: easier? Well, I think there are two things that are crucial in this matter, Lesley.

[00:07:22] First of all, I think we really need to talk about creating some sort of empty, horizontal space. You need a place to work. Now, from experience, we sit on the floor a lot because sometimes that's the only place that we can work. So we want create a space on the floor, but ideally you want to create either a flat surface on a bed or on a table.

[00:07:47] So you've got somewhere where you can take it back and. Get it all out. And so you can categorize and put like with like if you're trying to work on a postage stamp of an area, it's really hard because things get confused with other things. So if you can clear some sort of horizontal space. Yeah, I 

[00:08:07] Lesley: want to talk a little bit more about that.

[00:08:08] Ingrid. So you talked about the fact that we work on the floor a lot of the times and we do. We absolutely do. And I think most professional organisers would agree that we like to sit on the floor. And the reason why we do that is because we can kind of pivot round. And what it means is that we can, when we get, when we're at this sort of gathering, like we like stage or the sorting and organising.

[00:08:28] Stage or categorizing stage, it's really easy for us to have lots of different containers that we can sort into. And sometimes if you are on a table, it's a little bit more restrictive. I mean, I, the, the biggest time that I work on the floor is with paperwork, to be honest with you, because there are so many different categories and you need so many different boxes to sort into.

[00:08:50] So, but obviously working on the floor, It can be tricky. Yeah. Especially with a slip disc or plantar fasciitis, which I have at the moment. Um, and so it can be a little bit more difficult, and so we're not advocating that if you've got a dodgy back or if you're struggling, obviously, you know, try and think about your posture, think about sitting on a chair.

[00:09:09] But if you are fully fit and able, maybe the floor is the place to go, in which case clear a good, solid space on the floor. 

[00:09:16] Ingrid: Yeah. Now the second thing we wanted to talk about in kind of how can you make your job easier when you're decluttering, is you need to think about your exit plan. Where are the items you no longer want go?

[00:09:31] Are they being donated? I. To your favorite charity? Are they going into the recycling bin? Do you need to have a shredding box ready? Do you need to create a box where you've got a cup of items that you need to return to? A friend or a family that thinks you've been borrowing? Where are the items you no longer want going besides probably some of it when it's broken, needs to go into the bin.

[00:09:54] Think about this in advance, and it sounds crazy because you probably think I just want to get started about why would I think about where it's going? I just want to get it out of here. But the problem is, if you don't think about it in advance where the stuff is going, you will end up with a back somewhere that needs to go somewhere and it it'll be dumped somewhere.

[00:10:15] And you see where I'm going with this. At some point sometime you're going to find this back and go. What did I need to do with this? Why have I got four bags here randomly somewhere in my house and I don't even know? And you're doing the same job again, so before you even get started, you need to think about where it's going.

[00:10:32] It sounds so counterintuitive, doesn't it, Lesley? It 

[00:10:35] Lesley: does. And it might just be something as simple as if you've got, I mean, in the UK we have wheelie bins here, don't we? That we kind of put our, we can sort of split different things, you know, whether it's. Rubbish or whether it's uh, paper recycling or bottles and cans and all that kind of stuff.

[00:10:49] So we have different things that we can put into recycling bins. It might be just as simple as why don't you drag those bins to the front door, to the back door so it's easy for you to get to them. So they might not be in the normal place where they are, but it's just going to save you 20 or 30 steps every time, isn't it Ingrid?

[00:11:03] So just a little bit of forward thinking about how can I make this process simpler? Because what we don't want you to do is to have these things that are like annoying because I think we said, if you haven't thought about where you are, Just going to go if you haven't cleared your boot out. So this, the charity shop can go in there if you've not brought your wheelie bin into the back door and it's pouring with rain.

[00:11:24] All these things are things that are going to stop you in your tracks, and we do not want, as English says, any barriers in your your way. When you're actually starting out on that decluttering journey. So really, really important. We the logistics and preparation. That's what we're talking about. We're talking about think about the logistics, and think about the safety, and think about the preparation of making things easier for yourself.

[00:11:46] Ingrid: Now, let's move on to the next thing then, Lesley, because we. Want to get some big wins, right? When we're just starting out, we need some wins, especially if it's been hard to declutter. We haven't had a lot of time. We want to see the fruits of our labor, and there are items that we can easily declutter.

[00:12:06] Hopefully, that will give us big wins. That will give us then the motivation to go on. 

[00:12:12] Lesley: Yes, and these big wins tend to be big things. And so we really need to start identifying some big things that are going to be big wins. And so I'm talking about things like. Cardboard boxes, uh, you know, that have not been broken down or have been broken down.

[00:12:27] In fact, um, appliance boxes that you're keeping, and you are a little bit on the fence about let them go, take them out, get them straight out, right as soon as you start and all of a sudden the space starts to open up. Honestly, we can't stress enough how getting rid of cardboard boxes makes you feel so good.

[00:12:44] You can get rid of. 10 20 because if we are clutter books, what typically happens is we buy things online and they come in cardboard boxes. We don't get rid of the cardboard boxes, and it starts to clutter up your space. And so cardboard boxes is always something that is on my radar. As soon as we start a decluttering project, get them outta the house, get them into the recycling if possible, and that is a big win.

[00:13:05] Anything else? Thinking apart from those? Cardboard 

[00:13:08] Ingrid: boxes. Oh, yes. I mean, uh, a lot of times when I, uh, come to clients' houses, they're like, oh, I, I, here is a bin with some items for the charity shop that I decluttered ages ago. Would you mind taking that bag as well? And I'm like, yes. Bring it to me. Give it to me.

[00:13:25] I love it because that immediately gives, uh, that space because what I said before, you don't want things up end up lingering in your house. That's why the exit plan is so important. But when you're starting and you're finding back you already did long time ago, clear that out and create yourself some space.

[00:13:44] You know, uh, maybe if you've got lots of stuff that you bought from your friend, make an appointment this week to go and see your friend for a coffee or just to drop around her house instead of thinking, yeah, yeah, I'll get around to it one day. You want. Items to leave, and if you already have some items that you've earmarked to be gone from your house, that's the perfect place to get started.

[00:14:06] Lesley: Yeah, and same principle goes again, uh, Ingrid. In terms of big wins, it is things that you absolutely know furniture wise that you're not going to use, but thus just waiting to leave and so you've got a bookcase that's kind of not found its exit at this moment in time. Let those things go. Put them on free cycle, put them on eo, let somebody collect them.

[00:14:26] So do all that stuff and get those big pieces out of the way if you absolutely know that they're going, because that's going to make a huge difference and it's going to open up some space for you to work more safely. Logistically, things are going to be easier and you're going to feel like. There's a whole load of stuff left the room straight away.

[00:14:45] Ingrid: I know. And you know what, Lesley, it can't, you know, it's not only furniture. It can be, you know, you've bought, you've replaced something that was broken, but you haven't gotten rid of the old broken one yet. For example, a laundry basket, you know, there's a plastic. You can really hurt yourself. Let that go.

[00:15:00] If you've upgraded something, but you're still hanging onto the old one, let the old one go. I was with a client a while back and she's like, oh yeah, she had a. Actually quite a small living room and there was like a small seti there, a little sofa there completely in the way and I'm like, let it go. Or kids toys that are quite bull, especially when they're little, the toys are humongous for some reason.

[00:15:24] Let's solve the bigger things go. So you get, you get a space to move around and see some space appearing. 

[00:15:32] Lesley: I'm going to bit excited already. This is what's nice about the start of a decluttering journey. All of these things are possible and it's just about setting things off in the right way, isn't it, Ingrid?

[00:15:42] And giving yourself a little bit of a helping hand at the beginning. Yeah. So we're going to go to a break now, and in a minute we're going to come back and we're going to talk about more spaces that you need to consider when you're starting out on your decal twin journey.

[00:15:54] Ingrid: Hi everyone. Welcome back to this podcast. Now, before the break, we talked about safety and logistics and big wins you can do and things you can do to make it easier for yourself.

[00:16:05] So let's continue talking about I. What we can do to organise our spaces and where do we start? Lesley, 

[00:16:14] Lesley: I think, you know, obviously we've said right at the beginning of the podcast, it's quite a complex process to think about where to begin, and that's why we have our huge reset, your home roadmap. It takes you step by step through your home, but sometimes people need a little bit of a boost in certain areas of their home if you've been quite down.

[00:16:34] Um, if you've been feeling quite, if your wellbeing is off, if you've been feeling a little bit of stressed, it's important to get the spaces right that are going to affect your mood. And so probably the biggest one for that is going to be the bedroom, isn't it? 

[00:16:47] Ingrid: Ingrid? Oh, crucial. Lesley. I mean, sleep is so important and I think especially, uh, women have a habit of putting everybody else first and, and put themselves always last.

[00:16:59] On the long list of things behind parents and pets and kids and partners and friends and, and all of that. So we nibble away at the hours that we can sleep, but we have to rest, we have to sleep. And you can only do that when you've got a relaxing bedroom. So having a, a very chaotic bedroom, can we quite problematic to get a good, um, rest and a good sleep.

[00:17:23] Lesley: Yeah, and that's why I think it's important quite early on in your decluttering journey and if you are feeling these things, if your sleep is being compromised, if your stress levels are high, if your wellbeing is being compromised, to think about getting the bedroom done quite early on in your decluttering journey so you can get that good night's rest.

[00:17:40] I think also I. Laundry, even though it's a big project to get your laundry under control, isn't it, Ingrid? I think that to get that under control really gives you a feel good feeling. A feel good feeling. Is that a thing? A feel good feeling? 

[00:17:56] Ingrid: Oh my gosh, there's nothing better. I mean, let's be realistic here.

[00:18:00] Laundry is always there and will always come back, whether you're by yourself or with six other people. It. That laundry basket is like five minutes empty and somebody puts something in there and you're like, I've literally just caught up on everything. But the thing is, that's the thing. We need to stay on top of it.

[00:18:19] Laundry involves a lot of different steps between, it's dirty too. It's back into my cupboard. Clean, iron, washed and tidy. It's for me to wear again, there's a lot of different steps and if. For some reason, we skip steps or we lose track of where we are with laundry. It starts to build up and build up and build up, and that can really create lots of piles around your home.

[00:18:45] Laundry then needs to co be caught up on, which then means that there's laundry everywhere, drying or everywhere. You know, it, it. Laundry can really easily get out of hand. And it's really, I think, important if you are, um, um, struggling with, with clutter and with this organisation, that laundry, to get a hang of that and to get that moving will help you so much.

[00:19:10] I 

[00:19:10] Lesley: think it's also important as well, inger when we talk about laundry, that you need to be caught upon your laundry to do an effective bedroom or wardrobe declutter as well. 'cause you need to have a full picture of what you've got. And if half of it has been sort of lying in the bottom of a laundry basket for for months, then you're not going to remember it.

[00:19:27] And so when it gets to looking at how many pairs of black jeans you've got in your wardrobe, you need to have the full picture. And so it's another reason why laundry needs to be quite early on in your decluttering journey. Yeah, 

[00:19:39] Ingrid: very important. And I mean so satisfying though, and that no, that doesn't mean you have to iron everything and that you have to fold everything.

[00:19:47] But I think once you get in the habit of regularly doing loads of laundry, regularly folding and ironing, if you iron and get putting it away, then it gets easier to get dressed because you're not wondering. Somewhere in this house, there's this top, and I've been trying to wear find this store because I want to wear it for a certain occasion or I want to wear it into work and now I can't find it.

[00:20:12] You lose oodles of time searching for stuff, so if you get on top of your laundry, it will really help you save lots of time. Absolutely. 

[00:20:21] Lesley: So I think, yeah, it's so important to think about your wellbeing. So if you are very stressed out, think about what can I do in my house that's really going to make me feel a little bit better?

[00:20:31] And maybe that's the place to start. You know, if cooking, for example, is a big part of what. Makes you less stressed out or baking, for example, something like that. You love to bake, but actually the clutter in your kitchen is stopping you from doing that. Then tackle the kitchen first. Really, really important to think about your wellbeing because once we get that wellbeing right, what then happens is we feel more positive and we can tackle other areas in our home.

[00:20:55] Now one of the things that's a big problem when it comes to decluttering is that we are worried about guests. And so quite often people are spurred into action to declutter because someone is coming over. So do you believe then, Ingrid, that we should be focusing on those spaces first? 

[00:21:14] Ingrid: Um, oh, that is actually quite a tricky question, Lesley, I believe, because I think it depends.

[00:21:20] Is somebody just popping in to drop something off, you know what I mean? Or it's actually somebody coming for a week long stay at your house because you haven't seen them in a long time and they're going to stay and they're going to be in your, in your spare bedroom. So I think there's, there's different types of guests.

[00:21:38] Lesley: Absolutely. Uh, but I think that to make yourself feel better, it's quite interesting actually, as I, as I sort of say this, I think that all of these things are really interwoven, aren't they? Thinking about logistics, thinking about your wellbeing, thinking about big wins. It is all about boosting that positivity and boosting your thought process with decluttering when you first get started.

[00:21:58] And sometimes it's very, very important for us to present our home in the right way. Maybe we felt judged before, maybe we felt ashamed, and we don't want that to happen. So therefore, whatever we do, we might have loads of stuff behind doors and say, don't go in there, but as long as we've got the guest bedroom right, and the guest bathroom right, and maybe some other spaces in our home that our guests are going to go into, that makes us feel better.

[00:22:19] Yeah. So if that's you, then perhaps those spaces that guests are going to go is the most important room for you to get started in. 

[00:22:26] Ingrid: Yeah, I, I think it really depends as well on, on the climate where you are, the time of year. For example, if, if you've got guests coming in the middle of winter and it's going to be dark and you're not going to be using your garden, don't put your garden first on the list to do, because that's probably not the room where you're going to hang out.

[00:22:44] But if it's the middle of summer and you're expecting to do possibly a barbecue or something like that, Maybe the, the garden does come earlier on the list than trying to do some, a basement that nobody will see, or a loft that nobody will see. So you need to really think this through. If, if a, a, a kitchen is the hub of the home where you eat and where you socialize and where you hang out when you've got a guest, that might then be more important to sort out than a home office.

[00:23:10] If you've got several rooms that need attention, you need to really think about, okay. If this guest is going to come into my house, what will the areas be that they will see what's important and how do I feel that they're, make sure that they're comfortable and feel happy, and that I feel good about having them in my home.

[00:23:30] Lesley: I think to close out this podcast, we've talked about the five spaces that you need to dec declare to first, and we have a caveat in there. Of course we do because we teach things in a quite a specific order, don't we? Yeah. I. But if somebody asks a question, we would, we would veer off that path for these reasons, wouldn't we?

[00:23:49] Um, so if somebody said to us, well, actually I'm not sleeping, we'd be like, well, you need to go to your bedroom first and ignore the, kind of, not ignore the roadmap, but kind of veer off from it a little bit deviate, 'cause it's quite flexible. But I think what I wanted to talk about to close out this podcast is where you don't start first Ingrid, where you absolutely do not start.

[00:24:07] And so, 

[00:24:08] Ingrid: yes. Yeah, tell me, Lesley, yes. You 

[00:24:11] Lesley: don't start in the most difficult room in your house, and so you do not start in that room of doom. You do not start in your, um, pack to the rafters, loft, garage, all of that. That is not the place to start. You don't start in the room. That's the most di emotionally difficult room, so you don't start with your photographs or your memorabilia.

[00:24:29] Even though that feels very appealing, you need to build up that decry muscle before you go there. And you typically don't start in living spaces because what happens in living spaces is there's lots of stuff in there that belongs elsewhere in the house, and often I. You need to declutter the other rooms in your house so you can put those things away.

[00:24:49] So a lot of people do want to do living rooms and sort of family rooms and things like that, but we typically leave those till much later so that we have room to put other stuff. Yeah. So that's a couple of little things about not what, where not to start when you are starting out with declutter in your home.

[00:25:06] So I hope that's been helpful. Ingrid, anything else to add? 

[00:25:10] Ingrid: Oh yeah, I, you know what, Lesley, I, I. It just re You were talking about it and it just reminds me how much I just love decluttering and organising. Yeah. It's so satisfying to see our members flourish and to when we work with clients, to, to create order and to feel them become more happier in their homes and to see that they're able to find stuff and, and that they don't are, you know, afraid to trip over anymore because we've made it safer.

[00:25:40] Um, that there's an exit plan, but we think through, you know, it just, oh, I love it. 

[00:25:47] Lesley: I know, I know you love it. And so, um, 'cause you're going to wax lyrical about your, um, decluttering love English. I know. Uh, let's talk about, well, it's actually quite fitting 'cause this is what we're going to talk about again next week.

[00:25:59] We're going to go into more detail about Ingrid. Hello? 

[00:26:03] Ingrid: Yes. How to create a calm bedroom. So I can't wait because we just kind of scratched the surface in this podcast about bedrooms and we have a lot more to say. So we are going to talk about that next week. Of course. Let us know in the comments. Was this podcast helpful?

[00:26:23] Have we inspired you to look at safety and logistics or do a little big win and, and find a big box that you've been meaning to declutter or a piece of furniture that's standing in your way somewhere and it's really annoying? You tell us in the comments. You can put a comment in on our show notes, so if you go to declutter hub.com/two 10.

[00:26:44] Then you have the show notes of this podcast and you can find out lots of other interesting information and watch this show on YouTube and you can put in comments. So we look forward to reading, uh, whatever you've got to tell us. Do you know what 

[00:26:57] Lesley: you just said, Ingrid? And I'll pick you up because it made me laughing.

[00:27:00] It's very fitting actually. You said just go and do a little big win, which is kind of like, but the point is that those big wins can be little. 'cause they take little effort for a big win. So yeah, just thought I'd say, uh, maybe we should call them. Little big wins. 

[00:27:15] Ingrid: I like it for now. Why do you think I like it?

[00:27:17] Yeah. So thanks for being here and we'll see you next week.

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Helen Wilkinson says:

24 November 2022 at 5:19 PM

Thank you ladies. Having listened to you podcast about where to start I have just had a little Big Win. I have taken the bag of shoes that I had decluttered from my wardrobe and taken them to the charity shops, stopping off to recycle the boxes that I’d stored next to the charity shop bag which was literally cluttering up my bedroom. This bag and collection of boxes must have been in our room for a week. I’d assigned the task to my husband then who I don’t think had read the memo!! Why wait for it to be done when it could be accomplished in just a few minutes.
Very satisfying to see that clear space
Many thanks

Helen

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1. Ingrid Jansen says:
  
  24 November 2022 at 5:55 PM
  
  That is just brilliant Helen! Win-win!
  
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Judith Roberts says:

10 October 2022 at 6:05 PM

I enjoyed this podcast.
Last fall as I was updating our home for ADA compliance we had a home health nurse come in to evaluate our space. This was mandatory because we were applying for a $2000 grant from the VA.
After walking through our home she commented, "I have not been in a home this clean and organized. Usually I have to have people move things around and do a lot of decluttering before I'm able to help them."
I was so pleased…about that time I was just 1 year into TDH membership. It really motivated me to extend my membership!
I really appreciate how my home and my life have benefited from all your training/help!
Thanks,
Judie

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1. Ingrid Jansen says:
  
  11 October 2022 at 6:02 PM
  
  Thank you so much Judie! It's so wonderful to see the changes in your home and in you and we love having you in the membership. You have just gone from strength to strength.
  
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