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What’s all this
Clutter Clearing business about?
What’s all this
Clutter Clearing business about?
‘There was an e-book available written by ‘UK de-cluttering expert Clare Baker’ called Decluttering Made Easy.
I liked the fact that this was not an actual book that one might buy to prop up yet another corner of the coffee table. The tome was full of practical advice’
Sandi Toksvig
Clare has featured in Good Housekeeping , Prima, Southern Daily Echo, Property Coach, Oliver Finn, Evening Telegraph, The Scotsman, Richmond and Twickenham Times, Your Local Guardian, Kindred Spirit, Housing Today, Woman and Home, Hampshire Society, Harpers and Queen, BBC London Radio, BBC Radio Solent, BBC Oxford, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, BBC Radio Humberside, BBC Radio Manchester, BBC Radio Nottingham, BBC Radio Newcastle, BBC Radio Cambridge, BBC Radio West Midlands, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC News Online, BBC Radio Leeds, BBC Radio Berkshire, BBC Southern Counties Radio, BBC Orkney, local radio and local press.
Clare is has worked with major marketing companies and organisations on marketing campaigns that have a clutter related element that can help raise the profile of the marketing campaign e.g. Calor Gas and Childline.
Clare has also worked with national womens magazines on featured articles.
Clare has been approached by 3 TV companies regarding new TV programmes, and used as an expert consultant by 1 TV company in the development of a decluttering programme.
Daytime and evening contact info:
Daytime: 01295 275030 Evening: 0777 5897955 e-mail: clare@cdc-uk.net
Clare is happy to provide her expertise for:
Radio
- phone-ins
- features
Magazine / Newspaper
- Features
- Column writer
TV
- Talk shows
- Features
- Programme Development
Clare BakerSpecialist Clutter Coach
And Founder of www.clutterclearing.net
Hello. My name is Clare Baker and I founded The Clutter Clearing Consultancy in 2002 when I had clutter of my own that was out of control. I had no idea how it had got out of control - my job was a project manager, I'd always been organised and clutter free before then and I felt like a failure for not being able to keep it under control.
So I set out to find out what skill it was that I'd lost. If I had been clutter free before then clearly there was something I wasn't doing that I had done in the past - a skill that I had lost for whatever reason. After all, I could be organised at work, why had I lost that skill at home? It's why I know myself how awful it is to have clutter that's out of control - feeling overwhelmed, out of control, like a failure. I also know how good it feels when you've cleared, sorted and know how to control your clutter. There's nothing quite like having a good clear out, is there?!
So I modelled people who were good at being organised and clutter free, tested it on some people who had clutter and realised that I had found a process that I could teach to people, or give to them to learn themselves, to get their clutter back under control.
The important thing was that it wasn't based on a 3 sort 'keep, throw away, charity' principle. What I had learnt was that when we tried to be 'ruthless' and stick to only 3 or 4 categories to sort out clutter into, overwhelm, panic and fear all fought back and rendered people less likely to let go, more likely to hold on tighter to their clutter.
So the process I identified that non-cluttered people used to clear and organise their clutter was based on it being 'OK' to not be sure, OK to give yourself some time to decide, and focusing on what life will be like when the clutter is cleared and organised.
I also did a lot of coaching training (NLP) so that I had the coaching skills to be as effective as possible when teaching people this skill - so that I could put people at ease, build rapport with them when they might be scared showing me into their cluttered homes, and so I could gain people's trust and confidence.
I put the two together after a year of modelling, perfecting the process and testing it on various people, and launched the Clutter Clearing Consultancy in December 2002 with one small advert in a local magazine, just to see if anyone out there would like to learn this new process. Within a year I had cashed in my shares to enable me to invest in the first website (very different to this one!), and it all snowballed since then.
Suffice to say I still love my job, still love seeing people get back control, seeing people able to make the decisions for themselves, with a little help, and love being able to tell people that there really are other people out there who have the same challenges, struggles and issues with their clutter - people I've
Daytime and evening contact info:
Daytime: 01295 275030 Evening: 0777 5897955 e-mail: clare@cdc-uk.net
Unusual Finds
Pickled clutter
A Pickled Monkey – Found on the dining room table under clutter. Called Pedro and beloved pet. Also found with Christmas cards that Pedro used to send.Snappy clutter
A Stuffed Crocodile – found in the bedroomReading clutter
Beatrice Potter 1st edition (worth £6,500) – found in a cardboard box in the bottom of a wardrobe of a lady who was de-cluttering after loosing her husband and moving into a home. She went on a round the world cruise before going into the home, thanks to her clutter!Snack clutter
A tin of soup from 1947 – a little out of date it was given to a local museumLoving clutter
A letter from a friend 15 years ago – it wasn’t clutter as the owner wrote to the person again, re-established contact and ended up marrying him.Banked clutter
An envelope with a Christmas gift of £5 from 1982 form a now dead Aunty - £5 which was never acknowledge and the Aunt never thankedValuable clutter
A bank book that was 27 years old and turned out to have earned £4,276 interest over the term.Attractive clutter
A necklace made out of melted down silver farthings by Amerindians in the Amazon rain forest of Guyana, South America which was given to a lady on the day she accepted her missionary husbands proposal.Chatter clutter
A full set of baby teeth.Pet clutter
Dead mice – a very common clutter item! – mice often like to eat the clutter!Reading clutter
12 years worth of newspapers,Shopping clutter
A war ration book.Yummy clutter
13 year old chocolate.Historic clutter
The deeds of the first owner of a Victorian house being de-cluttered – from 1876.Hidden clutter
A cellar – the owner didn’t know they had one.20 Suggested Media interview questions
1. What’s the difference between clutter and a tidy up?
2. What kind of help do you give someone who has a clutter problem?
3. Obsessive Compulsive Hoarding is being recognised as an illness in 2011 – what’s the difference between Obsessive Compulsive Hoarding and someone who’s just got a bit of clutter?
4. Why do we need to deal with our clutter?
5. What are the most common mistakes that people make when they try to declutter on their own?
6. Don’t people just need a skip and some time, or more storage space?
7. Why would anyone come to you for help? Don’t they just need to pull themselves together and get on with it?
8. How can having clutter help someone make money in the current economic climate?
9. What type of person is your ‘average’ client?
10. Presumably this is a predominately female problem – why is this?
11. Why do so many people have a clutter problem these days?
12. Shouldn’t we be keeping more stuff now that we’re in a recession?
13. What’s the story behind Pedro, the pickled monkey?!
14. You say that most of your clients make more money by clearing the clutter than it costs them to have you help them. How do they do that?
15. You say you help people around the world. So do you fly around the world going to people’s homes and do it for them?
16. Have you ever worked with anyone with so much clutter they can’t get in their home?
17. What’s the most unusual thing that you’ve ever found in someone’s clutter? (Pedro the Pickled Monkey, Beatrice Potter book wroth £6,500, someone’s OBE, mislaid marriage certificates – found after the divorce)
18. Doesn’t Clutter Clearing just create more waste and landfill?
19. I know you’ve got one particular client in Vancouver, Canada and you work with her twice a week. How do you do that if you’re not getting on a plane to go to her home?
20. What are you 3 top tips do you have for anyone trying to clear their clutter on their own?
Press Releases
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Other Press WorkMagazinesBelow are some of the magazines we have worked with in relation to articles on the issue of clutter and de-cluttering.
Below are newspapers we have worked with / featured in in relation to features on clutter and de-cluttering. |
The Clutter Clearing Consultancy has work with many area of the press - the tabs to the left have further details, including press releases.
Clare Baker of The Clutter Clearing Consultancy is happy to give radio, magazine, newspaper or TV interviews on issues related to clutter.
Some of the ways that the Clutter Clearing Consultancy has helped the press are listed below.
(* some conditions apply related to travel expenses)
- The psychology of clutter
- How to get started when clearing your clutter
- top tips for clearing your clutter
- Phone-ins for people with questions about their clutter
- Clutter Clearing makeovers
- Clutter Clearing Competitions and prizes
- Why the TV makeover programmes don't always help us with our own clutter
- Clutter Clearing Consultations for magazines, radio or TV offices wanting to do a article on the 'experience' of having a Clutter Clearing Consultation
To see our previous press releases, click on the tabs to the left or below.
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