So after the purge of my wardrobe – did I miss the clothing I threw out? No not really. I had a few panics that my favourite top had gone to the great charity shop in the sky but when I looked it was still there. However, to be honest […]
On Saturday I made the most of my daughter falling asleep after a busy afternoon in the park and decided to tackle the top of my chest of drawers. This was currently camouflaged by a blanket of clutter, stuffed with papers and tissues, jewellery stands and boxes full to the brim […]
Life keeps getting in the way of decluttering it really does! I want to stick to my goal of reducing my possessions, but then I have a period of chaos which wipes out weeks of my schedule. Why does everything come at once? My husband’s and daughters birthdays, Easter, my […]
Pre -blitz, my kitchen would have made Nigella Lawson weep. There was nothing sexy about unless your idea of ‘romantic’ was a sorry collection of dust covered vases, chipped mugs and mismatched plates, inherited from the previous owner (!) Out of date food silently spoiled in the pantry and my […]
I recently saw my friend Howard, who had moved back to the UK after living ten years in Budapest. He said that when returned, all the possessions he bought with him fitted in four large suitcases. I was gobsmacked. I certainly wasn’t moving anywhere without a giant removal van and hours […]
The headline sounds bad doesn’t it? I mean who puts their wedding dress in the trash? Is she getting divorced? Of course not! That dress had been taking up space under my bed for five years and it mocked me. Honestly it did! You see it had a long train […]
I had tried in the past to sort out my books. I’d even written blog posts about it – yet failed to follow my own advice. This meant that Maria Kondo’s section on getting rid of books, filled me with excitement and the fervent belief that this time I was […]
