Declutter Challenge Week 52: Now What?
30 October
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What a year we have all had on this decluttering journey together! Our home are now more functional than ever, we have simplified systems and reduced volume and we no longer have anything in our homes that doesn’t serve a purpose. You are all amazing and we thank you for sharing your stories, your successes and your challenges along the way. After all of that time and effort you have invested in creating a functional and efficient home, how do we go about keeping it that way? Five Simple Tips for Staying Organised Have a home for everything and return everything to its home…….today! OneRead More →

Allsorts Organising Declutter Challenge Week 50: Virtually Clutter Free
16 October
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You are all amazing at this decluttering – it is so good to hear your stories, we really appreciate you sharing! This week we are talking things that don’t take up physical space but can have such power over us and can be a huge source of anxiety – that overflowing email inbox and those lists of electronic files, bookmarks and dare we mention them, photographs! We already worked through our technology clutter (the physical items like laptops and phone in Week 40 and some of you may have found that one a breeze compared to this week – but we know you can doRead More →

Allsorts Organising Declutter Challenge Week 44: Safe Contents
07 September
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How often do you look in your safe? Can you remember everything you have in there? Can you even remember the code it has been so long? Let’s crack this baby open and audit our safe contents! This category should be a simple and relatively quick one and you may find that you don’t need to declutter at all. Check that all contents are current, particularly paperwork.  If you would like to consider paperwork retention further, you can visit our challenge blog from week 38 here. If you have some jewellery stored, do consider if they are items that are still loved and wanted.  YouRead More →

01 March
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In Homes, Offices, Organised Thoughts

I recently contributed to an article for the Officeworks blog about how you can be more efficient and productive working from home. One of the tools I mention is The Pomodoro Technique® where you break your day, or individual tasks, into Pomodoro’s or blocks of 15 minutes.  The idea, in brief, is that you set a timer and work intensely for this period which is followed by a short break of 5 minutes. I use this technique regularly and find it particularly helpful if I am procrastinating as I know that it is a short, manageable block where I can really focus my energy and itRead More →