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When we hear the word ‘waste’, many of us imagine things ending up in a landfill site somewhere, contributing to environmental destruction. ‘I don’t want to waste x,y,z’ is a common phrase I hear people say. But what exactly do you mean when you’re worried about waste? Let’s get back to basics. The Oxford Dictionary…

UNSUPPORTIVE FRIENDS AND FAMILY Many Clutterholics don’t have supportive friends or family. They don’t understand why you can’t just get rid of everything and start again, and let’s be honest, we sometimes wonder that ourselves. Some of us have even tried that already. They focus on the negatives, they think we ‘should’ be able to…

Zoe started her Private Clutter Clearing Journey in September 2020 and completed it in May 2023. This means she’s cleared all her clutter and created the habits she needs to stay Clutter Free Forever. Success Summary: 9 rooms and areas completely clutter cleared after 18 years: Zoe found being on the Journey enabled her to…

MYTH I CAN’T LET GO OF SOMETHING THAT WAS A GIFT Many people mistakenly think that if something in their clutter was a gift, then somehow the usual rules of making realistic decisions don’t apply. For some reason, when it comes to gifts, we stop thinking about whether we NEED it and will USE it…

In 1992 Queen Elizabeth II infamously referred to that year as ‘annus horribilis’ – which means horrible year. Many of us with clutter discover there are a few years that we could describe that way, and I can directly link one of my ‘annus horribilis’ to triggering a spike in my clutter accumulation. It was…

To successfully clear your clutter Forever you need to understand that there is a difference between Want and Need. One of the many reasons why we have our clutter is because we think they’re the same thing. We may keep something simply because we want to keep it, even though we don’t need it and…

1. Notice it and Acknowledge It That immediately moves it from a biological, automatic, hormonal, limbic response that you can’t easily control to a prefrontal cortex logic and reason response which IMMEDIATELY decreases the intensity and the power that it has to create the emotional reaction e.g. anger, frustration. 2. Learn and Notice the Triggers…

AFFIRMATIONS What Are They? Put simply they are positive statements that we can say to ourselves to help motivate, support and encourage ourselves to do 5 important things: How Do Affirmations Help Our Motivation? They work at a conscious and subconscious level which is why they can be so effective in helping us to get…

I’M SCARED OF MAKING THE ‘WRONG’ DECISION For many of us, the fear of making the wrong decision when going through our clutter can send us straight into the panic zone. We’ve made decisions in the past that we’ve come to regret, and the fear of that happening again means we end up putting even…

IMPATIENCE We have all felt impatient at times, especially when we’re trying to deal with our clutter.Christine started her Private Clutter Clearing Journey in September 2020 and completed it in March 2023. This means she’s cleared all her clutter and created the habits she needs to stay Clutter Free Forever. We have all hoped at…