Relocating Curios to Milk Churns
Do you remember the last time you moved home, I bet you swore you would Never do it again and / or Get someone else to do it for you next time Packing, sorting, decluttering, selling no longer wanted items and packing the treasures prior to a move is not a problem if you have […]
10 Questions To Ask When Outsourcing Parts of Your Life
Outsourcing, collaborating, delegating or just handing over some aspects of your life; whether for business or personal; can actually create time whilst increasing your productivity and also improve your health and well being. To delegate life’s responsibilities’ effectively you should consider:- Separate tasks that generate more income/time than they cost to have others do Selective […]
Retirement and Lifestyle Changes: Advice to your 20 year old self
In the words of Woody Allen “I am going to live forever, and so far it’s working” If 74 is the new middle age, those people who are thinking about retiring at the young age of 55 are the equivalent of the 20 something’s we all used to be. Remember those days when we were […]
5 reasons to age in place
There are many reasons why we would choose to age in place. The first and perhaps most important is that ageing in place means you are choosing: how you want to spend your retirement years how you want your home to be set up what your health care choices will be which types of assistance […]
Organisation: Backup your memories
A few weeks ago we spoke about Family History Month and asked you to consider finding and digitising your family’s precious photographic memories. The question is – now that you’ve found them, digitised them – what do you do with them? The beauty of digital is that you can share them. One of the team […]
Decluttering during kerbside collection time
One man’s Junk is another man’s treasure. It is kerbside collection time in the area, and you can believe us when we say it’s just amazing what people will throw away. While there are many broken and worn out items sitting on the verge, there are a lot of other things put outside that could […]
National Family History Month – Who are you and where do you come from?
Before digital cameras and smart phones with built in cameras (yes there was such a time) we relied on film to capture images of people, places and things. Because film was expensive, a good camera cost a lot of money and developing the pictures once they had been taken cost even more, we were unlikely […]
A Tidy Space, is a Tidy Mind!
Living in a share house has its ups and its downs – especially if you’re slightly OCD (like me) when it comes to a clean and tidy house! I thoroughly enjoy the company of my housemates – who are my dear friends – but I find myself spending a lot of time tidying and cleaning […]
Literary Clearing the Clutter: Stop hanging onto things ‘just because’
There are many reasons why we clear the clutter from our lives, but one of the biggest may be an imminent move we are facing and we: Don’t want to take the stuff with us and / or Won’t have the space When it comes to moving house, one of the biggest barriers maybe the […]
Saving Your Mobile Phone
What’s the worst thing you’ve done with your mobile? Accidently sent a cheeky text to the boss instead of a loved one? That would be pretty high on the list of things not to do, however you can always apologise to the boss – and hope they have a sense of humour! But what if […]