How long has it been since you cleared out your garage, attic, understairs cupboard or spare room? Are you one of the 57% of Brits who have a ‘guilty’ storage space where you hide clutter that you can’t face dealing with? If so, make April the month for a well overdue spring clean.
It can be time consuming to make the effort to deal with clutter, which may have built up over months or years, but once you do, you’ll feel a weight lifted from your shoulders and gain a sense of pride in your achievements.
Your home should be a relaxing environment, but excessive junk and clutter can have just the opposite effect.
Kate Ibbotson, founder of A Tidy Mind, is a professional declutterer. She has shared some expert advice with the Daily Mail on how best to tackle the decluttering process and motivate you to get started right away. She believes our ‘just in case’ mentality causes us to keep hold of items that really we no longer need.
Often we could easily throw away items that are no longer useful, or sell or give to charity items that someone else may want, without causing us any significant problems. The issue is that sometimes it can be hard to let go, or be tempted to thing we’ll make use of an item at some time in the future.
If you’re really struggling to part with items, consider short-term or long term storage solutions. Andrew Porter Ltd offers cost-effective containerised storage solutions. We can collect your items or furniture from you and keep it at our purpose-built storage warehouse, where it will wait for whenever you need it again, or are ready to deal with sorting it out.
Containerised storage works out significantly cheaper than self-storage, and may be just what you need to help you beat the clutter.
