Kill a hoarder: how to destroy the mess in the room with the help of a specialist

Many people are too busy and cannot find time for cleaning, so their house turned into a warehouse for junk. But fortunately, now there are specially trained people who for a small fee willing to help organize the space and storage needed things, and it is unnecessary to throw away or to attach.

33-year-old follower of Elijah from London Sarah Fletcher turned to a professional to disassemble your greenhouse. The house stored a ladder, foldable baby cradle, broken laptop, a book called "Russian language for dummies" (so never open), instructions to the electronics that broke down ten years ago, and lumps of old wrapping paper.

The pursuit of minimalism that surrounds you, which became popular also thanks to a Japanese woman, Marie Kondo suggests that the possession of a large number of things — a General problem of modernity. Many people want to be more neat and organized, but the number of things multiplied, and now a whole room in a house littered with things that may have never been used and will not be used, and throw terribly sorry.

Sarah Fletcher admitted that he has always been disorganized, but four years ago her children were born and chaos spread throughout the house. She was tired and could not afford to spend their free time on cleaning, which she found terribly boring.

The woman also thought that it makes no sense to get out, because a year-old child scatters toys in the room at the same time, when she finishes to restore order. Its a greenhouse turned into a warehouse filled with hundreds of things that Sarah did not know what to do.

Beverly Wade owns Cluttergone ("Down stuff") in Essex, which helps people analyze their cluttered home. The service, which could include a private room or the whole house, worth of £ 50 for the first hour and £ 35 for each subsequent hour of work.

Sarah thought, when Beverly sees her greenhouse, she will faint or run screaming from the house. But not all bad: women talked about how the room became like this. The reason for all — employment with children, laziness and the feeling that everything is so bad that it's impossible for anything with this mess to do.

According to Beverly, this is a typical situation. She said that her running to completely different people. "Most of our clients are ordinary people who found themselves in the midst of confusion and need a little help and support to bring all to normal — she explains. Our clients from 18 years to 91 years, and they are all from very different walks of life". These words helped Sarah not so ashamed of his cluttered room.

Before women began to to restore order, the orangery was a dump of random things that Sarah could not find a place anywhere else in the house (pens, children's art kits, photo albums, shoes that Sarah wore for years), and all of it stuffed in boxes and packages.

Order among these things was not because lot was in the greenhouse since the move four years ago. First and foremost, Beverly went through the boxes, asking Sarah what she'd wanted to leave, and what it can do.

True if Sarah was going to wear the shoes that she hadn't even seen for four years? Beverly asked the client to think carefully about those things which, as it seemed to her, she will be able to use: can easily be replaced by something if they need it later? Is it true Sarah will miss them if you take them to a charity second-hand?

Beverly has offered to sort things into four categories: things you can sell through Facebook, things that can be given to a charity shop, things that can be attributed to the attic, and stuff that you can just throw away.

The women had to make several breaks for tea, because restoring order proved to be very exhausting. In the end Sarah was full of garbage bags filled with clothes and books for the charity shop, a pile of things for sale on Facebook, including a foldable crib and a photo printer that has not been used for several years, and also a trash bag filled with trash on release. It turned out to be "Russian language for dummies" and red skirt with zippers on the sides, which Sarah hadn't worn since she was 21.

"It's not about being minimalist, it's important to possess the necessary number of things, among which you can find what you need," says Beverly. She advised Sarah to realistically evaluate your life and the changes that have occurred in it since the birth of the children. Because Sarah was two boxes of high heel shoes, although since 2008 she only wears sweat pants.

According to estimates Beverley, man with two kids gaining two or three large trash bags of stuff to send to charity shops every month. Sarah easily filled two bags, but couldn't part with some things, although I know that they will not use or wear again.

Among these things a pair of suede boots with blue heels that she bought before the wedding in 2010, wore one time, I almost twisted my ankle and put it in the greenhouse, where they forgot about them.

They were so expensive that Sarah has to convince himself that there will be plenty of occasions to wear the boots on a very tall bright blue-heeled shoes, although she spends most of the time at playgrounds and children's birthdays. Beverly laid things Sarah's type, so she can easily find what you need. Photo albums, books, documents, and Christmas decorations now lie separately, and can be removed if necessary.

To restore order in the greenhouse lasted four hours and 155 pounds. Sarah was very tired, and not so much from physical exertion but from emotional — she had to see a lot of things from the past and experience the mixture of nostalgia and sorrow for his past life, which was a place and heels and mini-skirts.

Restoring order has borne fruit — Sarah feels much better now and she did not need to turn the greenhouse on my head looking for any one thing as everything here is laid out on the ground. The woman now wonders about restoring order among the toys.

At first Sarah was skeptical about the idea of professionals to restore order, but, having become acquainted with Beverly, she was impressed. Turned out to be very useful when you have a calm and understanding man who is willing to help you sift through the mountains of junk and sort all this calmly and without judgment.