A mum of two from the High Peak has told North Derbyshire Radio that ‘slow and steady wins the game’ when it comes to decluttering our homes this spring.
Georgina Burdett, 45, from Hayfield was on ITV’s Tonight show last week (12 March) sharing her expertise and tips around how to improve our mental health, through improving the tidiness of our homes.
The founder of For the Love of Tidying [ https://fortheloveoftidying.co.uk ] celebrated her client Janet, who has been on a decluttering journey for the last four years with her, after downsizing and realising she needed to prioritise and reorganise her belongings, looking at what to keep, store and pass on.
They talked about the power of how having decluttered spaces created mental capacity for a better everyday approach to a tidy home.
Ms Burdett says the ‘Big Spring Clean’ isn’t the answer to a tidier home and calmer mind, but small changes can instead change people’s lives.
“I’d love people to take the pressure off themselves and not go into it thinking ‘I must overhaul my entire home’ as this causes stress and actually sets us up for failure. If we strive to get our house to look like a show home, a) it’s pretty impossible to achieve with a family living in it, and b) it’s near on impossible to keep it that way so we’ll quickly start to resent the time we spent tidying as it all falls apart again, and mark ourselves down as failures then too.
“I’d like to invite people to instead think -what small habits can I put in place which means my home is tidy for the majority of the year, rather than just for a few days after a big overhaul…and use the momentum of the Spring clean to work through a number of small actions that will make an ongoing impact.”
You can hear Ms Burdett’s five-step plan to take us from cluttered chaos to consistent calm, in the interview below.
