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Exciting news! A Tidy Mind has recently expanded from Yorkshire to the Midlands area. Victoria has passed her training period with flying colours & is now covering Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Shropshire, Herefordshire & Birmingham. She has the perfect mix of skills to be a Professional Organsier & Declutter Coach because of her empathy, compassion, optimism & […]

The best way to help the environment is to become a more conscious consumer. When decluttering your home, there’s no avoiding the fact that some things may to go to landfill (as we always say to clients, don’t make your home the landfill) but at A Tidy Mind, we donate or recycle whatever we can. […]

For those of us lucky enough to have a home, it MUST be a sanctuary. If instead, it is stress, then it can feel as though there is no sanctuary anywhere. Let’s be honest here: it’s easy for clutter to infiltrate our home. We don’t mean for it to happen, but just through the process […]

Declutter Your Life: it could make you more content The average number of possessions per person has increased HUGELY over the last two generations. Contentment levels however appear to have decreased. So it’s clear that excessive consumption does not fulfill its promise to make people happier.  So far, so anti consumerism…. But let’s analyse it […]

Running a home can be expensive! Do you ever feel like your house is a money drainer? Money is, for most of us finite, and that means there is only a certain amount to go around when it comes to running and maintaining our homes. Of course, that can make things tricky, especially if you […]

Often, hoarding is not a choice. It’s a compulsion people feel. It can often be traced to a range of mental illnesses, or simply the desire not to let anything go, which can be associated with trauma and grief, emotional issues and not mental illnesses. It can feel extremely tiring when trying to help a […]

I’m delighted to introduce this guest blog from Re-Fashion, a company I recently discovered on Instagram. Re-Fashion is a new online women’s fashion store with a difference. They send postage-paid bags to your home to collect unwanted, high-quality women’s clothes (the proceeds of that satisfying decluttering session!) and sell the pre-owned clothes to fund charitable […]

Not everyone is lucky enough to have a spare room in their home. But if you are then you might want to think about ways that you can make the most of this room. Some may turn it into a storage room, study or perhaps a playroom. However, if your home often sees visitors or […]

In case you hadn’t guessed, I’m all for clearing the clutter and ensuring homes feel calm and clear. However, it’s easy to overcompensate when making your home feel clutter-free – this can result in a home that feels sterile. If you feel that your home suffers from this or it’s a fear as you move […]

Electronics are a category which many clients avoid or feel overwhelmed by.  Evidently, the number of electronic items can easily and quickly multiply within a home – probably because electronics date quickly and are replaced.  BUT when new items enter homes, the old ones are often still kept but then not used very much. Honest […]