Too much furniture!
This client is just about to have a hip operation and has relatives coming to stay so we had to sort out the spare room. As soon as I...
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Feb 26, 20201 min read
Calling all Instagram users
For those of you who are more into Instagram follow @anextrapair All my tips and before/after photos are also put on Instagram 🥰. Xx
Feb 26, 20201 min read
An extra tip! Clear your kitchen surfaces!
Put your food bin on the wall so it’s not clogging up your surfaces and putting unnecessary germs on it too. I put two nails in the wall...
Feb 26, 20201 min read
Time and motivation are always the problem.
When you have a day to yourself I’m sure the last thing you want to do is tidy and organise someone else’s ‘stuff’. That’s how this...
Feb 26, 20201 min read
Who I spend my afternoons with 🥰
Three days a week I spend time with Ken who is 93 (94 in July). He is incredible - born during the war, travelled and lived in numerous...
Feb 26, 20201 min read
An extra tip! Stop keeping pointless pots!
I come across this all the time! An empty pot that’s been kept...for something! Stop it 😂. Pots are perfect dumping ground to ‘just put...
Feb 26, 20201 min read
Loft/Spare room declutter
I was with this client around 6 months ago for the same room and she has twins who are growing out of clothes everyday and these clothes...
Feb 24, 20201 min read
Fostering really matters...
I have just come across this and as someone who is looking into fostering - hence moving to have a spare room to do it, I had never...
Feb 12, 20201 min read
An extra tip! The dreaded cutlery/utensil draw
When I did my final viewing of my new house I realised there was only one draw for all my cutlery and utensils - FYI, utensils should be...
Feb 8, 20201 min read
Time and motivation are always the problem
When you have a day to yourself I’m sure the last thing you want to do is tidy and organise someone else’s ‘stuff’. That’s how this...
Feb 5, 20201 min read
An extra tip! Celery Juice!
Celery Juice, it is amazing (if you like it that is, lucky for me, I do). One of my clients told me to try this to help increase my...
Feb 4, 20202 min read
Have you got a floodrobe
My clients HAD a floordrobe which had been stressing both her and her husband out for months. They kept on saying they would sort it out...
Jan 11, 20204 min read
An extra tip! Moving home shouldn’t be stressful! 🏡
Moving home really doesn’t need to be stressful as you have months to plan and pack before the actual day. Having just gone through this...
Sep 29, 20191 min read
No Time, energy and motivation
Time, energy and motivation are three things most people come up against when wanting to have a sort out. This client had two more!...
Sep 13, 20191 min read
An extra tip! Stackable stuff is brilliant!
When I used to clean I found coffee/sugar/tea containers take up so much unnecessary surface space, they get covered in grease and grime...
Sep 13, 20191 min read
An extra tip! Nail biters have hope
I have always bitten my nails and hated my hands as a consequence until I started using gelax and now my nails are beautiful if I don’t...
Sep 13, 20191 min read
Are you stealing from your own house?
I know a lot of parents struggle with this so rather then you ‘trying’ to sneak them out of the house. Let me work with your little ones...
Sep 13, 20191 min read
An extra tip! Ripe Fruit can be frozen
I personally do not like ripe bananas- any black marks and I won’t eat it. However, I hate throwing things away unnecessarily. I have a...
Sep 13, 20191 min read
An extra tip! Weeds or Flowers?
I love to have flowers in the house but it’s not something I buy myself very often and no one ever buys them for me that’s for sure 😂. I...
Aug 14, 20191 min read
Struggling to get motivated!
This is the case with most of my clients and half the time I go back to do more but the other half find that I’ve given them enough ideas...
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