To ask you how a professional declutterer works?

[Merryoldgoat]

Help me. I’ve had a really hard term and I’m overwhelmed and not coping with house and work and kids and life.

DH pulls his weight completely - it’s just there isn’t enough time.

I think the first starting point is a big declutter and I’m thinking of hiring help. But how does this work? Do they go round with you asking questions then do the work? Do they categorise then ask you to sort through?

Would appreciate anyone who has used a service to give some guidance.

Yabu.

I struggled a lot with hanging onto things that I knew I could sell and get decent money for.

But I knew that i really didn't have the energy to do it (fibromyalgia). So I now think of sending things to the charity shop as another way of giving to charity.

I tell myself that someone will be delighted to find it in a charity shop, it's out of my house and the charity benefits, so 3 wins🏆

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Oh, I know. That kind if stuff will get used in the craft classes I am running

The stuff that will be sold will be fabrics, threads, mostly set up as slow stitch packs. The first lot will be practice for a second which will be far more curated and more expensive. It's part of an ongoing business

Oops duplicate

Ive never used a declutterer ,professional or otherwise. But i have read and watched loads of declutter advice and have tried to carry out the top tips. I

What actually works for me is to gather my determination to get the drawer ,cupboard, room cleared before a set time and stick at it. Sometimes thats just as the kettle is boiling or before i go to bed. Rarely its a whole morning when im on my own.

I try to channel a much tidier person as i clear and i get more ruthless as time goes on. It just all takes so much time though. Its not the big items like furniture or even clothes. For me its the small things like hairbrushes or pens. i stop to wonder where these perfectly useable things can go.

No charity shop wants them and everyone else probably has plenty of their own but it pains me to discard good things just because i have too many .

What ive done in the past is to gather all the random things together and put the lot on freecycle as a carboot box ( i clean everything first) . That way folk who like a rummage might find something useful for 10p and if nobody wants them they can go to the tip havibg at least had another chance. Well, thars how i square it with my conscience.

oh that's a great idea, thank you!