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Home Decluttering Tips

Call it spring cleaning, Marie Kondoing or simply taking the time to focus on our mental health and wellbeing - decluttering our homes doesn’t just help us organise our home it also brings clarity and order to our life. Here’s some top mental wellbeing and cleaning tips for you to try when you have spare time on your hands:

Apr 14 · 2 min read

Decluttering 101 – Where To Start

Decluttering can be overwhelming. The key is to break down your spring cleaning into small manageable tasks. Ordering your home shouldn’t make you feel tense - so, for your own mental wellbeing, here’s our top tips on how to clean effectively and stress-free:

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Take a Social Media Detox

Ever feel like you’re getting too many notifications on your phone? How many email lists have you accidentally signed up for over the years? And how many apps on your phone have notifications turned on? You don’t have to delete your favourite apps to enjoy a social media detox, you can simply turn off the notifications, so you don’t get constant distractions and can refocus your mind on your mental health and wellbeing or work on your goals and to-do lists.

Just as you’d declutter your home, decluttering your phone is equally as important.

Delete contacts that you don’t need and rename those you’ve misspelt in a hurry. Select all of those questionable selfies and blurry landscape shots you’ll never share and get rid.

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Top Tips for Organising Shelves

Whether you’ve got a bookcase or decorative floating shelves, spare an afternoon to make them look their best. Have a large collection of reading material? Why not organise your books by genre,author name or size. Or, if you’re after Instagram-worthy interiors, then you could even consider colour coding for a rainbow bookshelf effect.

Need cleaning tips for your burgeoning bathroom shelf, ASAP? Amp up your bathroom shelf game by digging out half empty containers and bringing those fancier toiletries you’ve been saving for right up. There’s no time like the present to pamper yourself!

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Organising Drawers and Wardrobes

Is it time to finally tackle those ‘junk’ drawers? We all have one… or two! Organizing drawers that slowly become a jumble of miscellaneous bits and bobs, receipts, used train tickets, travel adaptors, and tangled charging cables, can be annoying. But now’s the time to tackle them once and for all. There’s no shame in keeping that designated drawer for random items that don’t have a home, but clear it of any rubbish and use clips and labeled folders to keep paper pieces organized. Thinking of organizing wardrobes next? The first (and easiest) thing you should do is finally wave good riddance to all those single socks that have forever lost their pairings – or pass them to the kids for an afternoon of sock puppet making! As you are finally getting round to practicing your Marie Kondo folding technique, now is a good time to go through all your clothes and see what can be upcycled, recycled, or handed down to charity shops.

How to Clean Your Car

Done with all that home decluttering? If you’ve got a car, then now’s the time for a deep clean. Plus, it offers us the ideal excuse to spend a little more time outside in the fresh air – you can even get the family involved too. Clear it of any rubbish and give surfaces a clean and floors a hoover. Once the inside is done then wash and polish the outside.