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Spring Clean or Spring Organise

Spring Clean or Spring Organise

Spring Cleaning is the process of thoroughly cleaning your home in the Springtime. Traditionally this comes from the days when homes were heated by fireplaces, and efforts were made to prevent heat from escaping. The coming of spring and warm weather was an opportunity to air the house and clean it of soot and all the grime accumulated over the winter months.

Our Habits Are Changing

A survey by Money Magpie found that less than 50% of the 2000 people interviewed were planning to do a Spring Clean citing the following reasons:

  1. Lack of time - Work and family commitments
  2. Our homes are cleaner - There is no longer the need for such a deep cleaning as homes are kept clean all year round
  3. Lack of energy - Don’t have the energy or desire to complete the task

Why Spring is the perfect time to declutter and organise

Whilst many more people may not complete a traditional Spring Clean, they still feel Spring is the perfect time to declutter and organise their space.

The arrival of spring brings with more day light and warmer temperatures (questionable today as we are face Storm Gareth). Both of which help us feel more energised and generate a desire to get everything in order before the summer months.

Benefits of Spring Decluttering & Organising

What are the benefits of Spring decluttering and organising? Is it worth the effort and time?

  1. Increases Productivity and Focus

Sorting and organising our space can help reduce distractions and help us gain more time. With �?a place for everything and everything in its place’ you’ll spend less time looking for misplaced items and be able to proactively manage your time.

  • Reduces Stress

Clearing and organising your space allows you to set up effective systems to simplify your home management and put into place effective daily habits to reduce the future build-up of clutter. Having clear systems in place and effective daily helps helps to reduce stress.

Effective Spring Decluttering & Organising

The key to success is to purge before you organise.  This is simply to decide what you need to keep and the items you no longer need before deciding how and where to store everything. The easiest way to be organised is to have less stuff.

Feeling Overwhelmed?

The key to not feeling overwhelmed is to:

  • Schedule time to declutter and organise
  • Identify areas where clutter has built up
  • Create an action plan of all the spaces that you would like to sort and prioritise each space
  • Ask you clear each area focus on your achievements so far rather than everything that still needs to be done
  • Ask for support. My clients really value working with the support of a professional organiser to guide them and provide motivation to achieve their goals  

Key Areas For Spring Decluttering and Organising

Each person will have a different list of priorities, but these are some of the key areas to be sorted. As you clear out each key area you can give it a deep cleaning before putting the things back

Under the beds – what’s lurking under your bed

Wardrobes – has your wardrobe become a floordrobe?

Bathroom cabinets – toiletries and medicines

Linens/towels – audit your current stock and purge unwanted items or those in poor condition

Fridge – perfect time to sort and organise your fridge and freezer and give it a deep clean

Junk Drawer – this may be in the kitchen, bedroom, home study, hallway or all four areas. This may be lightbulbs, batteries, stationery and miscellaneous. Use shallow boxes in the drawers to group like items together

Tupperware drawer – tame the Tupperware. Be realistic about how many you need. Purchase a stackable set in different sizes if you need to replace everything

Books/DVDs/CDS – manage your book collection and decide in you still need your DVDs and CDs. The majority of my clients are now streaming videos and music.

Organising Once You’ve Decluttered

Once you have completed the sorting process and decided which items to purge (recycle, sell, donate) you can start to think about organising your space. �?A place for everything and everything in its place’. Think about storing items for convenience and easy access. Items that you use less frequently can be stored in less accessible places or archived away.

I wish you success with your Spring decluttering and organising. Once it’s done you can look forward to the summer months knowing that everything is in order and enjoy the benefits of a simplified home management system.If you need support with induvial areas or your whole home I’d be delighted to support you.

Tracy Ross

Professional Organiser

Blissfully Organised

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  • Tracy has helped me many times over the years, and I think I must have known her for 10 years now! When I first contacted her I had reservations about letting someone into my home, making judgments and telling me what I should do. But Tracy's service is NOT like that at all. She did a full home audit and we chatted about what I hoped to achieve. For years I'd been frustrated by our storage area, a large room under the house which was hard to access and full of things we hadn't seen for years. We agreed to tackle it and Tracy suggested that to start with, we took everything out. I thought she was completely mad at this point. Three hours later we had done just that, assessed what was there, got rid of some of it, sorted some and made plans for the rest. It was like a massive weight had lifted from my shoulders. After that she helped me organise rooms, and filter through boxes of stuff. More recently she helped me prepare for a big move. It's always an absolute pleasure to see Tracy and she is very thoughtful in her approach. Her service is life changing and I am very grateful that I contacted Tracy all those years ago. Contact her now, you honestly won't regret it.

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  • I first met Tracy in 2019. I live overseas and wanted to help my Mother clear a downstairs room to become a bedroom, I needed a gentle, trusted professional to complete the task after I had returned to my home. We all met and agreed upon a plan, but it was not to be as my Mother’s health deteriorated very quickly and she passed away. Although I did return to the UK a few times that year, decluttering wasn’t a priority. Then Covid put an end to my being able to return. Finally, in spring of this year, flight restrictions were lifted and I saw an opportunity to return to the UK, now faced with the task of clearing the family home. I contacted Tracy and thankfully, despite short notice, she had some free days to help me. We arranged 6 days throughout my 2 1/2 weeks to help me stay on track and motivated. Tracy helped me stay focussed and helped me believe we could achieve a fairly daunting task of going through a lifetime of memories, papers, photos and possessions. I had to be very disciplined about what was kept as whatever I chose to keep was to be shipped back to my Country. Tracy gave me time to tell a story about an item and why it made the “keeper”, or “think about it” pile, yet didn’t break stride in her work whilst listening. It was a very cathartic process. I felt like I was talking to a long time friend. She has a talent for putting you at ease, and for helping you see objects with a critical eye. Not once did I feel she was making the decision, more that she helped me verbalize my attachment, or not, and that really builds a bond of trust. After each session, I had “homework” to complete before we met again and a follow up email charting the successes of the day and the plan for the next session. As I was on my own during my stay in my family home, this could have been rather lonely, but knowing that Tracy was coming, both broke up the monotony of going through endless boxes and kept me on task such that the job was successfully completed.

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  • Tracy is amazing. We were renovating our house and finally was able to plan some extra storage. Tracy helped us to plan out new fitted wardrobes and then came back a few months later to help me get into a system with my laundry ( one of the things as a family I find hard to keep under control! ). She is kind, non judgemental, motivational & inspirational! I would say most people could do with a bit of Blissfully Organised in their lives!

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  • Tracy helped my young girls and I declutter before a house move. In particular I was impressed with how Tracy got on well with the girls (7 yrs and 3 yrs) straight away and explained the sorting process simply. This has had a lastly impact on my children, getting them to appreciate you can’t keep everything!! I too enjoyed spending focused time with Tracy looking at my wardrobe. I will definitely be implementing the learnings for my clothes purchases such as reducing my tendency to buy some items in too many colour ways! Thank you Tracy for all your help. Jo

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