Blogs

Personal Boundaries are the limits and rules we set for what we share of ourselves within different types of relationships.  Those of us who struggle with clutter often have either ‘Porous’ or ‘Rigid’ boundaries.  The SMART BOUNDARIES concept helps understand if we have porous or rigid boundaries and help us start putting healthy boundaries in…

Melissa started her Private Clutter Clearing Journey in September 2020 and completed it in October 2022. This means she’s cleared all her clutter and created the habits she needs to stay Clutter Free Forever. Success Summary: Melissa started her Private Journey in September 2020.  As Melissa explains: Succeeding at completing my Journey was a time…

MYTH CLEARING MY CLUTTER IS ABOUT CREATING A SHOW HOME / LIVING A MINIMALIST LIFE Absolutely not! Another myth perpetuated by the TV decluttering programmes and organisational ‘experts’. If you REALLY want to live in a show home or live a minimalist life then I am not the person to help you do that. Not…

It’s ironic that on the day the last edition of the Chronicle arrived from the printers, in which I wrote about my family relationship clutter and my estrangement from my parents, my big brother passed away from an aggressive melanoma cancer that took him in just 9 months. I hadn’t been told he was ill.…

Before I started Clearing my Clutter, I was seeing a therapist regularly. I knew I had more challenges than just my clutter, and with hindsight I was hoping she’d tell me how to deal with them all without actually having to spend any time, energy, effort or money on dealing with them. Then one week…

The Clutter Clearing Comfort Zone Concept helps explain why the blitz’s don’t work, and understand what we need to do to clear our clutter. The concept is based around 3 circles, one inside the other.  The middle circle (white) represents our comfort zone, or where we are now. In there we feel safe but there’s…

I BELIEVE IT IS / WAS WORTH A LOT OF MONEY OK…. So what…..? What’s that got to do with the price of fish? This isn’t just a Clutter related decision-making dilemma. Lots to people hold onto things because they believe it’s worth a lot now, or know it was worth a lot in the…

BREAKING OLD AND MAKING NEW HABITS TAKES TIME To Clear your Clutter Forever, so you never again have to spend time going through backlog clutter, you must break old automatic bad habits and make new automatic good habits. Only then will you be able to control and maintain a Clutter Free Home with minimum time…

Self Esteem is defined as: How we value and perceive ourselves (mind.org.uk) It relates to how we feel about ourselves and can be positively or negatively affected at any point in our lives. For example; if we’re bullied, constantly criticised, abused, lose a job, have relationship problems, have a mental or physical health condition, have…

At the beginning of September, Samantha completed her Clutter Clearing Journey.  This means she’s cleared all her clutter and created the habits she needs to stay Clutter Free Forever. Success Summary: Samantha started her Private Journey at the beginning of the Pandemic. As Samantha explains: Like many I panicked at the start of the pandemic…