Trying to tackle a mountain of stuff can be quite overwhelming... The Declutter Goddess will regain order of your STUFF - home, office, garage, studio.
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The Declutter Goddess offers assistance with ~
Decluttering, Detailed Cleaning and Organisation for the home, office, garage, garden, workspace, storage, artist studio, shops and businesses. Assistance with preparing your property for sale with optional detailing for weekly Open House Inspections. Provide packing and unpacking service for the big move. Detailed Cleaning Service when vacating prope
rty. Sensitive and caring assistance for Deceased Estates. Holiday letting ~ help with preparing your property for holiday letting or B&B plus cleaning between tennants. Personalised assistance working with you to declutter, organise and restore order to your space according to your needs. Approachable, down-to-earth, friendly and understanding. All work is highly confidential. Advice on how to turn unwanted stuff into cash, reuse and recycling and green cleaning solutions. Servicing Byron Bay, Mullumbimby, Brunswick Heads, Ocean Shores, Bangalow, Ballina, Lismore, Tweed and outlying areas. Working hours flexible to suit your needs - available weekends and evenings
Ph: 0449 806 871 or email [email protected]
A regular bnb client posted…
I can truly say how appreciative I am for my cleaner. I had a guest who barely used the studio so I decided to take it upon myself to do laundry and beds. I’m shocked how long it took me to make the beds and do the laundry and put all the covers and pillowcases back on….and clean the bathrooms. My cleaner is worth every $ she earns and I understand her amazing attention to detail takes time. Thank you my Goddess.
This weeks job has been packing up excess items and reorganising a large home. One of the requests was to make a creative work space that was easy to see and access items but maintain a tidy space. This little work space was the result. Happy outcome.
The Declutter Goddess aims to help people find freedom from clutter, allowing them to live an intentional and fulfilled life. This is done through hands-on assistance and guidance to help clients achieve their individual goals.
Working as a Professional Organiser is a very rewarding role. Professional Organisers help people declutter and organise their homes, reduce items they no longer need, implement storage solutions; to improve day-to-day efficiency and ease of use. It is a privilege to come alongside people to help them create safe, comfortable, functional and welcoming homes. We are located in the Northern Rivers region of NSW.
A Professional Organiser supports their clients with decision-making and taking action, and makes recommendations for organisational systems, storage solutions and waste management. These skills can apply to light situational disorganisation through chronic clutter and disorganisation.
We aim to provide a flexible working environment that allows you to work around the needs of your family and life. Work is offered based on individual availability and location as well as by client’s needs.
Seeing in the new Year...
Greatness begins with intention. A life of greatness begins with the power of intention. Put forward your intentions for 2024... wishing you all a powerful year.
Another year done and dusted (excuse the pun). A big Thank You to all our lovely loyal clients (some have been with us for 7 years or more). We are taking a short break and will be back on the ground 4/1/24. Enjoy the festivities with your family and friends. We look forward to seeing our regulars and meeting new clients in 2024. Enjoy!
I don’t love Christmas shopping, or the overconsumption, frenzied shopping centres, consumer debt, environmental waste, wasted time wrapping, and over-accumulation of needless stuff that goes with it.
Bah humbug! The shopping has got to go. Here’s why. Warning: This will be a rant of near-epic proportions.
1. The focus is on buying, not on sharing. I love the idea of giving to people you love, but that idea has been twisted. Now people go out in a mad rush to shop, like ravenous vampires feasting on new blood. We shop for a month, rip apart the packaging one morning, and then forget about it the next day. Is this about giving, or buying?
2. Giving is great, but buying is not the solution. Again, I’m in love with giving … but do we need to buy to give? We seem to think that buying is the solution to any problem, but that has lead to a society that is deeply in debt and piled high with needless stuff. We can find other ways to give: bake cookies, wash someone’s car, babysit so they can go on a date night, create a photo album, be there when they need help moving.
3. The waste, oh the waste. Let’s start with packaging: the packaging for every toy is double the volume of the toy itself. From cardboard to plastic to metal twist-ties, it’s ridiculous. Then every item we buy must be brought home in bags. We often put everything in boxes. Then we buy wrapping paper and wrap it all up. All of this gets thrown away on Christmas day. Finally, there’s the gift itself — people get so much stuff they can’t possibly treasure everything. So it goes into the closet to be forgotten.
4. The sorrowful debt. Most people spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars on gifts and wrapping. Not to mention all the money spent on fuel, driving to different shopping places, and the money spent on fattening food. This goes on credit cards (and around our waistlines), and we then must pay for this — with high interest — during the year. Even if you don’t get into debt, you’re spending money earned from long hours of hard work — is this really how you want to spend your life, paying for needless stuff so corporations can get rich?
5. The horrendous, insipid, seizure-inducing advertising. I can’t stand advertising, and it only gets worse on Christmas. The ads pound on you relentlessly until you give in — and it works. That’s been proven — those ads are getting you to buy more, to want more, to lay down the credit card. I don’t watch TV, read newspapers or magazines so that I don’t have to be subjected to this.
6. The fuel. If you drive all over the place to shop, you’re using lots of fuel. Even if you just order online, think of the fuel it takes to deliver these products (overnight!) to your home. And the fuel used to create the products, to get the raw materials to the factories, to cut down the raw materials, to ship the finished product to the stores or warehouses from around the world (most likely from China), not to mention all the fuel used to create and ship the packaging. It’s a few million metric craploads of fuel, wasted for giving some presents that will be forgotten.
7. There are still hungry people in the world. In the frenzy that is Christmas shopping, we spend ridiculous amounts of money that is pure waste. In other countries, people are struggling just to eat, or get medicine, or find shelter, or get clean drinking water. We spend so much in a show of consumerist greed, when that money could go to feed a few dozen families. If you have money to waste, consider donating it to an organization that is helping these types of families or help save animals. I know this sounds preachy, but really, this kind of reminder is necessary in times like these.
8. Animal suffering for your Christmas dinner... have you considered the number of animals that are consumed for Christmas Dinners? Around 5 million turkeys are slaughtered every year in Australia, with most used for Christmas dinners, along with pigs, chickens and seafood. The final insult to the animals who are tortured and killed for your Christmas dinner comes as plentiful leftovers are scraped into the bin. If killing animals to eat them is barbaric, then killing them to not eat them is surely even worse. Go vegan this Christmas.
9. The neverending clutter. What happens to all the gifts? They go on our shelves, in our closets, on the floor. We already have so much clutter — do we need more? We already have problems figuring out what to do with everything we own. Why do we want to clutter our homes even more? Why do we want to force clutter on our loved ones, oblige them to find a spot in their already cluttered homes for this gift we’ve given them, so they won’t offend us when we come to visit? Is this obligation really a gift?
Alternatives to buying
There are so many good ideas, but a few:
Do other things with family that make meaningful gifts.
Ask people to donate to your favorite charity in lieu of gifts.
Do a gift swap where you put a valued possession (that you already own) into the swap.
Bake gifts.
Have an experience instead of giving material goods: do something fun together.
Find hope. Christmas has so much potential to be about so much more than buying — it can be a season of hope, renewal, loved ones, inspiration, contemplation... how can we find ways to be hopeful, thankful, cooperative?
Get stuff at Op Shops. It’s recycled, and the money helps a good cause.
How can we be more present instead of worried about getting presents?
Have a meaningful Festive Season this year....
The Declutter Goddess offers assistance with ~
Decluttering, Detailed Cleaning and Organisation for the home, office, garage, garden, workspace, storage, artist studio, shops and businesses.
Regular weekly, fortnightly or one off cleaning sessions.
Assistance with preparing your property for sale with optional detailing for weekly Open House Inspections.
Provide packing and unpacking service for the big move.
Detailed Cleaning Service when vacating property.
Sensitive and caring assistance for Deceased Estates.
Holiday letting ~ help with preparing your property for holiday letting or B&B plus cleaning between tennants.
Personalised assistance working with you to declutter, organise and restore order to your space according to your needs.
Approachable, down-to-earth, friendly and understanding. All work is highly confidential.
Advice on how to turn unwanted stuff into cash, reuse and recycling and green cleaning solutions.
Servicing Byron Bay, Mullumbimby, Brunswick Heads, Ocean Shores, Bangalow, Ballina, Lennox Heads and outlying areas.
Working hours flexible to suit your needs - available weekends and evenings
Ph: 0449 806 871 or direct message
Decluttering can be overwhelming and confronting. Often those who wish to minimise and downsize find it difficult and need a little bit of support to get the ball rolling. Working together we can achieve the changes you desire.... here are some of the benefits...
*Help you purge stuff that you don't need
*Have a sounding board who'll listen to your ideas and worries
*Talk you through decisions to turn your goals into a reality
*Guide you on what will work and what won't
*Make changes in your space that fit your lifestyle
The holiday season always seems to come with more: more food, more décor, more busyness, more shopping, and more STUFF! But it doesn’t have to be that way. And it certainly doesn’t have to overwhelm you or leave you feeling stressed and burnt out. Now is a great time to simplify and declutter before the holidays. Declutter Goddess has a few available spots before Christmas to help you prepare for the Festive season and before the many visitors arrive. Or perhaps you would love to kick off the New Year with a declutter cleanse. Text or call 0449806871
When struggling to make decluttering decisions, the 20/20 rule says you should consider letting go of an item if: You can replace it for less than $20. And you can replace it in less than 20 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93CdjuZzWi4
love this ad...
***UPDATE: department store John Lewis has been forced to pull this controversial home insurance advert from circulation on Oct 27. It was found by a watchdo...
Declutter on Demand... if only decluttering were that easy
We have been solidly booked for the past 12 months, yes busy times indeed. However, we are happy to announce we will have some availability coming up soon. We will be offering Declutter/Organising sessions for November / December just in time for the holiday season. Get in quick as news travels fast when we have availability and the bookings fill up quickly.
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It's one of the things I hear a lot... but it's a really good box.
I know…..it’s a real struggle for so many!
In your dreams
Changing our attitude to letting go of those things that no longer have a place in our homes and why we feel the need to hold onto items. Poverty Mentality describes this well.
https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/decluttering-my-home-poverty-mentality-harms-2021-10?fbclid=IwAR3ECeUBeHh5NNw2D40jSNA0m3j9whhzCRNNEF3o2FxusA_NYxCT_WO1YEs&r=AU&IR=T
'Poverty mentality,' also known as 'scarcity mindset,' manifests as holding onto things that no longer make sense in your life.
Right?? 🤣🤣🤣
Rosie the Declutter Goddess
Cleaning roller coaster....
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.”
Simone de Beauvoir - The Second S*x.
N. C. Wyeth - Wash Day on the Maine Coast,1934
Byron/Tweed/Lismore/Ballina
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