Amy Revell

If you are looking for someone, looking after someone as a carer, that might be the time where you have lots of like tasks that you need to do in order to repair the person you're caring for, for bedtime routines.

So I totally get that for some seasons this is just like that is just the crazy time.

But it doesn't have to be for most of us because if you've got a home where stuff has a place where it belongs and you know where that place is and you put it in that place where you've got these little micro routines of tidying up after yourself or making things as simple as possible, having a clear bench so by the end of the night you can wipe it clean and reset for the next day, all of that contributes to greater wellbeing.

This might also take into consideration things like how we sleep better when we're living in a home that isn't cluttered, how our relationships have less stress and pressure on them when we're living in a home that isn't overwhelmed by clutter, how children can learn better.

So, you know, one of the things that we learnt during the lockdowns here in Melbourne that just went on forever and ever is

was that children in cluttered homes find it much harder to concentrate for long periods of time, much harder to engage in projects, much harder to sit still and listen to their teacher on a device or however it works for them when the environment is really cluttered.

And if you work from home, you probably find the same thing, that you're distracted a lot if the environment around you is cluttered.

And I've seen some almighty cluttered desks where you can barely fit the computer screen on there.

Maybe the laptop is sitting on a pile of books or just...

I've seen laptops sitting on piles of clothes because there's just so much stuff in a home office.

It doesn't make you feel good.

And so one of these motivations is like, I want to feel better in my house.

And what I'm excited to tell you is one of the benefits is you feel better in your house.

So it can be that motivation.

And I think when you're motivated to do something for a reason and you've got someone saying, this is excellent, great motivation, the outcome is you will achieve that.

I mean, that's fairly highly motivating.

And when you know what the clear benefit will be at the end.

The next thing that people pointed out was the financial benefits.

And this is one that I don't think I realized when I started as a professional organizer how significant this is.

So when you buy less, you're spending less money, right?