Guest Blog article courtesy of:
Rachel Papworth founder of Green & Tidy
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I’m Rachel Papworth, the founder of Green and Tidy. I help people who have WAY too much stuff, to declutter and create homes they love, homes that support them to live the lives they want to live.
When your home works, your life works. Without you even noticing it, a home that works efficiently and is set up to support you to do the stuff you love, enables you to live the life you want to live.
Participants in my programme, Clear the Clutter, Stay Clutter-Free and Live the Life You Want, can look forward to the following benefits from decluttering and organising their homes:
1. Saving time.
2. Saving money.
3. Getting rid of mental and emotional clutter.
4. A simpler life.
5. Better physical health.
6. Reducing their environmental impact.
This is because, in a decluttered and organised home:
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- You can lay your hands on anything you need quickly and easily.
- You’ve cleared out mental and emotional clutter as you’ve let go of the physical objects associated with it.
- You’ve got less stuff to manage.
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- You’re spending less time and money on shopping, and having a lower impact on the environment because:
§ You no longer buy stuff to replace things you can’t find
§ You no longer buy stuff to replace things you’ve forgotten you’ve got
§ You no longer buy stuff to replace things that got knocked them off a pile of clutter and broken
§ You no longer buy stuff to replace things that got damaged under a pile of clutter
§ You’ve learned to bring into your home only what you truly want or need.
- You can protect your health by keeping your home clean.
- You’re more likely to use cleaning products that have a lower environmental impact because instead of blitzing occasionally with harsh products, you can quickly and easily clean on a regular basis.
It all adds up to peace of mind.
Rose was despondent and low about the state of her flat. She couldn’t face the overwhelming task of decluttering and she was afraid that her home would never be the way she wanted it to be.
Through my training and coaching her, she came to see that it would be possible for her to have “the flat I’ve always dreamed of”. As she cleared her clutter, she noticed for the first time in ages the massive dust-bunnies that had built up on the floor and the layer of dust on the skirting boards. She was shocked to think how that dust and dirt had been affecting the health of her and her ten-year-old son.
It’s not surprising dirt had built up. Cleaning around a clutter mountain is so time-consuming as to be nearly impossible. Moving all that stuff out of the way to dust, polish, wipe and vacuum (never mind dusting each of the objects in the pile) would have taken forever. And her clutter mountains were so precariously piled that she’d have risked knocking precious objects off and damaging them.
Her son’s verdict when she’d finished? “Clean!” he announced with a big grin.
Isn’t it fantastic what a difference decluttering and organising can make?
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Brightly Green thanks Rachel for her wonderful article. We hope you enjoyed it too!
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