Amy Revell

Whereas lots of my clients are like, I know that I've got a cupboard somewhere of presents that I bought and then they will rebuy things because they can't find the things.

And sometimes they'll buy clothes because they couldn't find what they needed or they'll buy toys because they forgot that they had one or they'll buy kitchen appliances forgetting that there's one at the back of the cupboard.

Capitalism does save you money in so, so many ways.

And I find it exciting because when you've got all those savings, you get a bit more financial freedom and financial freedom is empowering.

It allows you to make decisions, it allows you to be not confined to just what the money will allow you to do, but you get to be back in charge, which is ultimately what we're doing when we're reducing our clutter anyway.

The next thing is the motivation of having more time and then the outcome of having more time.

So this is one of the quotes from one of the participants in this study.

I hate cleaning with a passion.

Amen, sister.

I don't want to be spending my weekends with a big yard, mowing lawns, maintaining a house.

We've got so much more time to be creative, to get bored and to play games.

I love that having an organized home allows us time.

We don't have to spend a lot of time organizing because we don't have a lot of stuff.

And I think there is that initial time investment for the decluttering side of it, where you have to actually go through the things that you own

make decisions about them you're getting rid of stuff once you've got rid of a lot of stuff you start getting rid of furniture which I think is a really exciting part of everyone's decluttering journey is when you're like oh I now have drawers that we don't need anymore I now have containers that we don't need anymore

It's really quick to do a tidy.

If, you know, the kids have been out, they've been playing, they've made an almighty mess.

It's so much quicker to pack up a small amount of stuff than to pack up like a pile amount of toys.

Same for the washing.

It's so much quicker in our house to do the washing because there's not a lot of clothes.