Tag Archives: clutter

Day 2: A New Place for A4 Paper

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Sandra Madeira

Carrying on from yesterday’s theme of mini systems, the idea for today’s blog came to mind as I walked into the house from work this evening to my daughter saying ‘I couldn’t find any A4 white paper’. From memory, I … Continue reading →

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Day 1: A Place for Those Things

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Sandra Madeira

I struggle to find places for things around the house, but when I do systemise something, it tends to stick. For example, I have a place where I put receipts as soon as I get them (first 12 tabs used … Continue reading →

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Dreaming about a decluttered room

Posted on May 27, 2019 by Sandra Madeira

Just over 3 hours ago, I walked into the spare room to do some decluttering (again) and spotted an old CD on top of a pile off other stuff that had accumulated from the last time that I was decluttering … Continue reading →

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How do you motivate yourself to tidy up?

Posted on May 6, 2019 by Sandra Madeira

At first I didn’t think that I would be able to relate to the title of this blog. After all, who could possibly need to be motivated to tidy up? I used to think that I would always feel like … Continue reading →

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What happened to me?

Posted on April 28, 2019 by Sandra Madeira

I’ve almost finished listing to Mel Robbin’s audio book ‘Take Control of your Life’ and one of the questions that she asks her clients to ask themselves is ‘What happened to me?’ instead of ‘What am I going to do?’ … Continue reading →

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TV Area Decluttered in the Spare Room

Posted on November 6, 2018 by Sandra Madeira

We now have our ‘TV watching area’ decluttered in the spare room. You may remember yesterday that I posted a blog about decluttering the desk and then waited for my daughters to come home from school and help me move … Continue reading →

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Desk Decluttering Achieved

Posted on November 5, 2018 by Sandra Madeira

Whilst my daughters have been at school today, I’ve decluttered the whole desk including drawers. Even though we were given the desk second hand, I’d forgotten what good condition it was in and how grand it looked. I was drawn … Continue reading →

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Almost tried to reorganise whilst decluttering

Posted on November 5, 2018 by Sandra Madeira

I forgot about my blog Decluttering vs. Organising when faced with my messy desk yesterday. I was trying to organise the layout of the room and then suddenly remembered that my focus should have been on decluttering. Shame on me. … Continue reading →

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Recharging Batteries before Getting Organised

Posted on November 3, 2018 by Sandra Madeira

Sometimes the best use of our time is doing nothing and sometimes we just need to get organised. Sometimes the former needs to be done before you are in the right fame of mind to do the latter. No one … Continue reading →

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Making Decisions about Clutter

Posted on October 28, 2018 by Sandra Madeira

I woke up in the early hours of this morning and when I couldn’t fall back to sleep, I thought about how much clutter I could be clearing in the spare room if I actually had the energy to get … Continue reading →

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