Expert tips on tidying your home this autumn

September is the beginning of another school year, and for most of us, there is a new feeling of start after summer holidays.

As the darker evenings appear, we will spend more time by making it a natural time to look at our homes again and start thinking about misleading.

According to psychologists, collecting our living space can reduce stress and increase our energy levels.

However, it is not easy to choose what to hide and what to survive. Many of us are struggling to decide.

BBC Radio 4’s women’s watch spoke to experts in the best strategy to clean the area in your home.

The biggest challenge for many is to start the process, so it is important to give yourself a permission to mislead.

This includes the excretion of goods, including gifts, including a sense of obligation rather than pleasure.

Writer and interior design masters are a necessity to go slowly.

“This is true, that’s all! All must go! ‘ It is not about thinking about it!

Ogundehin advises you to choose an individual drawer or cabinet first, and then to be created gradually over time. This makes the task feel rather than overwhelming.

It is important to plan in advance what will happen to the items you throw. Ideally before It starts in misleading or within the first few days.

“You do not want to have piles and piles accumulated in the hallway,” professional organizer Ingrid Jansen says.

As the founding partner of Declutter Hub, a community of more than 60,000 members with a weekly podcast, he says there are increasing options for products to be donated, recycled, recycled or discarded.

Consider the help stores or gift applications such as FreeGle and Freecycle or the clue for reusable items.

There is also the option to sell second -hand in online markets such as Vinted or Ebay.

However, the other Declotter Hub co -founder Lesley Spellman warns that the ascension charm can be a double -edged sword.

Despite our best intentions, it can lead to shaking – the packaging habit to eliminate items, without actually moving them.

“Sales are a great way to make money from your clutter, but you should use some realism, or he says.

If you are still someone with three garbage bags under your desk, it may be time to get rid of it.

We all “be brutal!” We heard the expression, but effectively, misleading does not mean throwing things you love for the sake.

Instead, Ogundehin, “siege with things telling the story you want to tell yourself.”

“Keep things that strengthen you, hide things that raise you as you pass through the door,” he adds, you can have holiday purchases, pictures or masterpieces by your children, nephews or nephews.

The key to the director is that Ogundehin uses the terms “storage” – instead of spreading your home in a way, it is to devote the set gaps for objects.

Emotional commitment is one of the main reasons why people struggle to leave things.

This attachment usually depends on both nostalgia and emotionality, but these are different concepts, psychotherapist Stelios Kiosses, Channel 4’s door host next to The Hoarder.

Emotionality refers to the emotional value that an element holds today, because for us, a relationship symbolizes a relationship, success or important moment.

In the meantime, nostalgia is a sense of longing for the past with an item that triggers memories.

“You’re emotional about your child’s toy, but you’re nostalgix when you play with this toy with your child.”

Understanding and recognizing the difference between the two can be a “really important” way for quitting.

Take the first shoe of your children. “You think he’s hiding for them,” he adds Jansen from the Declotter Hub, “But in fact this is your memories, because you remember going to shops and buying them with them and thinking how cute they look.”

Therefore, imagine the reasons for hiding things and they will still not be missed by the people around the house.

In both cases, these days, smartphones allow us to buy Swift Mementos. When a picture speaks a thousand words, do we really have to hold everything?