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zenwithjulia

Barcelona / Yorkshire Professional Organiser and Trainee KonMari tidying consultant - Teaching you the tools to be tidy forever.

Uninterrupted bath….. hopefully. What are you up

Uninterrupted bath….. hopefully. What are you up to on this lovely June sunday?

Making the decision to tidy your possessions is an

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Children’s artwork 🖌🎨 I’m a big advoca

Children’s artwork

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I’m a big advocate of the maxim that you don’t declutter other people’s possessions.

To avoid causing resentment, or worse, the knee-jerk stress reaction to keep everything, forever, we only make decisions about our own items or communal items we have overall responsibility for.

So how does it work with things like children’s artwork which seems to multiply at a faster rate than a pair of cheerfully fertile rabbits?

1. Know your child. Some children like to keep everything. They will notice if that 5th map of Australia goes ‘missing’.
2. Pre-sort for them, to aid their decision making. Here I’m sorting into categories by size and medium (liberal use of brown paint seems to be the medium of choice)
3. Choose the right time to joy-check. Spoiler: after school on a Friday is not that time. Ever.
4. Ensure the full quantity is visible.
5. Ensure your child knows how much storage you have available for their creations. ‘I see your art wall is nearly full, shall we choose which of these to hang next?’
6. Have a project or two ready to suggest for displaying / storing the items that will be kept. My son’s current favourite is making booklets, so tomorrow morning we’ll be joy-checking his artwork and making booklets with those that make the cut.
7. If you do decide to let go of items without consulting your child, get them out of the house (the artwork, not the child) pronto. Nothing is worse than a wail of ‘BUT HOW DID THIS GET IN THERE? WHY MUMMY, WHO WOULD DO THAT?’ to make you feel extra Grinchy.
8. Little and often is more painless than once per season.
9. Make opportunities for your child/ren to see you choosing to let things go. ‘I enjoyed these magazines but I’ve read them so I’m going to offer them to our neigbour / X’s mom / the dentist’s waiting room. Normalise the idea that some possessions are not permanent, and that it’s ok to let go.
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How do you manage children’s art creations?

I’ve spent SUCH a cathartic afternoon getting my

I’ve spent SUCH a cathartic afternoon getting my session paperwork and various spreadsheets up to date and it feels SO GOOD!
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What are you up to on this beautiful holiday afternoon?
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(Sorry people scrolling from Britain, it’s a bank holiday here!)

No, I’m not going to tell you to throw all of yo

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I’m here to motivate and support you in your Tidying Lessons - unlike what you see on *some* TV shows, I never shame, mock, or question your decision to keep something. Empathy and solidarity are more my thing..... as are books 😉 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Every time I work with a client to declutter their

Every time I work with a client to declutter their space, I find myself gathering and organising a new micro-category!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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