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Blissfully Organised Home Audit – Women Aloud – Tidy house, Tidy Mind

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Tidy house, tidy mind

We’ve all heard it said that a tidy house can help to achieve a more ’tidy’ mind. It’s a sentiment I’m ready to embrace. I’m a woman on a mission. It’s time for a more organised home!

Life is busy. Our brains are constantly in over-drive; suffering from too much stimulus and too little down-time. So I like to think that less chaos and clutter around the house is one change I can make to feel more calm and in control. Marie Kondo, author of the bestselling Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, certainly sells the dream of how an organised home can bring you greater joy, happiness and opportunities.

And even if my life isn’t totally transformed as Kondo suggests, I know there are still many benefits to be had from a bit of a house shake-up. I‘m hopeful that a more organised house will help balance the mental overload that sometimes happens in my head. I’ll spend less time looking for things, moving stuff out the way, tripping over toys, or cursing the world every time I have to find something I’ve put away in that elusive ‘safe place’. I’ll be able to spend more quality time with the family rather than sorting. My evenings and weekends can be spent doing things I enjoy rather than trying to curtail the clutter.
We’re not hoarders…

We don’t buy a lot of things and we’re actually pretty minimalist when it comes to personal touches around the home. But we do have too much ‘stuff’. Clothes that haven’t been worn for years; boxes of paperwork; bags of who-knows-what stuffed under beds. Worktops and shelves are over-filled; the hallway has too many coats and shoes. Yes, a house is for living in so you can’t completely strip it bare but there’s definitely things hanging around which aren’t needed and don’t bring me a warm, joyful, happy feeling (‘joy’ being the litmus test for Kondo of whether belongings stay or go).

And the effect of too much stuff – my house isn’t the relaxing place to retreat that I want it to be. Instead when I walk into a room I get p*ssed off with the clutter. I feel a knot of tension in my chest about all the jobs that need to be done around the house. So enough is enough. It’s time to get this house organised.
Some people find it easy.

I’ve got all the ‘organise your home’ type books. I have the best intentions. I want to get my folding technique perfected (click here to see how Marie Kondo recommends you fold clothes to make best use of your drawer space). I really want to be that person who is always on top of the housework; keeping the chaos at bay; with systems and places for everything.

 

Blissfully Organised Home Audit – A Clients Viewpoint

The issues I have are (one) I’m not a naturally tidy person – don’t worry, I’m not living in squalor, but at home I’m more of a chaotic than organised disposition. (Two) when you’ve got a baby and a whirlwind of a toddler who can destroy an entire house in 10minutes, it’s hard to keep the place looking like a show home. And (three) despite all my enthusiasm for the job in hand, life gets in the way, it throws you another curveball and momentum slows. And that’s why sometimes you just have to call in the experts. Which is exactly what I did. I called in the help of Tracy Ross from Blissfully Organised.

After a successful marketing career, Tracy turned her organised mind to setting up her own company, Blissfully Organised, and she’s spent the last 7 years helping people to declutter and create more order in their home lives.

Tracy can help you organise anything from your wardrobe to your paperwork; your garage to your entire home. She’ll visit you to do an audit of your house or you can book her for a 4-hour session. In most cases the audit is the best place to start and that’s the route I chose too.

I was a bit nervous of opening up my home (and my cupboards!) for scrutiny, but Tracy really put me at ease. Tracy’s approach is completely non-judgmental and I felt like she was giving me emotional as well as practical support. She offers total confidentiality (no need to worry about her arriving in a branded vehicle!) and she really made an effort to understand how our family live and my main reasons for wanting to get the house more organised. Once we’d spent some time getting to know each other we went on a tour of the house so Tracy could see how much stuff we have, how we use our storage space and the ways in which we currently organise (or don’t) the house.

After a couple of hours with me, Tracy prepares an audit of my home.

There’s no pressure from Tracy on the next steps. She goes away and emails you back the audit; in which she gives recommendations for each room, makes storage suggestions and prioritises actions from low to high. But it is then your choice how to move forward. You can either take her advice and crack on yourself. Or you can book Tracy to come back for a four-hour session where she’ll help you tackle one of your priority areas – and she also offers a tip or charity shop drop off service too so you don’t having that job hanging over you for weeks.

I definitely plan to have her back to organise our basement, aka the dumping ground of our house.

It is a luxury and some might scoff at paying someone to help you declutter (first-world problem or what) but if you think your life will be enhanced by a tidy house, tidy mind, then it’s worth the money. You could go it alone but someone like Tracy from Blissfully Organised will help you do it faster and more efficiently. Meaning you’ll have more free time to spend enjoying life and appreciating your organised home. You might also save or make some money along the way too (from not buying duplicates or replacements of misplaced items and from selling things you no longer want).

Interested?

Blissfully Organised covers St Albans and the surrounding areas. Confidential Home Audits which include a review of your home and advice on changes that you can make, start at £110. Decluttering and organisation sessions start from £27.50 per hour (4 hours is the minimum time commitment for this). Visit the website for more information or email tracy@blissfullyorganised.co.uk.
Don’t worry if you’re not local to Hertfordshire, Tracy will soon be sharing some of her home organisation tips as a guest blogger for Women Aloud.

 

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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.

    thumb Clare Suttie
    June 11, 2020

  • 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

    thumb Joanna Dew
    August 25, 2020

  • 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.

    thumb Andree Stow
    May 9, 2022

  • Tracy is exceptional at what she does and is generous in what she gives. Highly recommend.

    thumb Jayne reah
    February 23, 2022

  • 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!

    thumb Laura Dannan
    December 14, 2020