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. […]

I recently watched a film called ‘Captain Fantastic’. If you haven’t seen it, please give it a go – it’s an amazing story about a family living ‘off grid’, essentially surviving in the wilderness, completely away from consumer society including technology. They made things out of wood and they did have capacity to travel to […]

‘Zero Waste’ is a philosophy which encourages a lifestyle where all materials are reused or redesigned in some way. The end goal is that no waste ends up in landfill or at the incinerator. Under the zero waste movement, even recycling should be limited, as it focuses on restructuring production and distribution systems to reduce waste […]

What to do with your stuff – Recycling your goods – A Tidy Mind Deciding to declutter is one thing – but what do you DO with your discarded things? How do you know whether something is worth selling and through which means? And where to donate so that your discarded item can make the […]