How to get organised and live the life you want

Tanya Lewis

Getting organised does not have to start at New Year’s, you can start now.

Why wait to set your resolutions; did you know, the top three new year’s resolutions are:

Get fit, lose weight and get organised.

With just over 2 weeks to Christmas, now is the time to rethink clutter and send it a new message

“2020 I am in control, not this STUFF!”

Invest time and rethink how you would like to see your home, office or career in 2020, will it be clutter free or just organised so you can find what you want when you want it?

There are 4 simple steps to get organised and live the life you want Continue reading

How to declutter your photo collection. Part 1

Tanya Lewis

Meet Chantal Imbach Professional Photo Organiser, declutter expert, guest blogger and special guest presenter at our upcoming women’s retreat Re treat Re store in January 2020. We asked Chantal if she would be kind enough share her expertise of photo organising with us.

How to organise photo’s is the No 1. Question we are asked at our workshops, seminars and retreats. Here’s what she had to say.

“Photos are one of the hardest things to declutter and let go of because they are so precious to most of us. As a professional photo organiser, I regularly come across very substantial digital photo collections, we’re talking 60,000 plus photos. And that doesn’t include the printed photos that most people still have.” says Chantal

“Photos are just the same as any other item in our home. When there are too many and when it has become unmanageable, decluttering and organising is in order.”

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Top 10 tips for a Sustainable Christmas

Tanya Lewis

Christmas can be stressful enough without the idea of more new stuff cluttering our homes, but what about our planet, how will Mother Earth cope with more new STUFF!

As Eco Organiser® writes this blog, stores are spruiking it’s less than 4 weeks to Christmas, their shelves are heaving with decorations and gifts for sale.

In other words they are saying – Buy Now! Consume! Don’t miss out! Continue reading

No 7. Reduce

Tanya Lewis

Reduce is not just about reducing our consumption of plastic bags, bottles, single use cups. Reduce, comes into its own when we actively reduce the impact we have on the planet and lower our carbon footprint to stem climate change.

I am writing this from a hotel dining room in Sydney in semi darkest, the power has been turned off to parts of the city to reduce the risk of bush fires on a day NSW has never experienced before “catastrophic”. Continue reading

12 ways to prepare yourself to rid your life of clutter

Tanya Lewis

How we prepare ourselves to rid our life clutter, is not as difficult as it sounds, and it super important for our success.

Clutter: Stuff that stops us from living the life we want

Let’s face it life is too short to be looking for STUFF, have you ever heard someone say from their death bed

“I wish I went to the IKEA sales”

it’s more likely to hear

“I wish I spent more time with my kids, family and friends”

“I wish I did that trip that I always wanted to do”

  1. Experience real life fun

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Stop the Greenwash

Tanya Lewis

You may ask what is a greenwash, it’s not something you accidentally left in the washing machine and everything comes out green.

Greenwashing is the misrepresentation of a product to be eco-friendly, when it isn’t, often acting as a band aid or adding to our global waste problem.

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Seven top tips how to choose the right storage container, and eco organise your home

Tanya Lewis

Choosing the right storage container over what is trendy or cheap and cheerful often leads to a greater investment in clutter. Rather than buy another piece of plastic why not rethink and repurpose things in your home, this helps reduce your carbon footprint?

Storage containers are not the answer to conquering clutter, another common mistake is buying storage before you start to sort and declutter. Once the files, papers, clothes, food and others items are sorted, organised and ethically decluttered, this is the time to look at storage, and not before.

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No 6. Repair

Tanya Lewis

Repair it, don’t hoard it!

In 2012 I stumbled across an article in the New York Times advocating to repair items before landfill. The Repair Café Foundation (now Repair Cafe International Foundation (RCIF), was founded by an ex-journalist Martine Postma in the Netherlands in 2011 to enable people to come together to provide a free service to their community to help repair and therefore, to extend the life of products that would otherwise end up as waste.

Since then the ground swell has been encouraging with Repair Cafes popping up in many countries, cities and rural communities, repairing everything from electrical items, picture frames, book binding to clothing repairs. Continue reading

Sustainable Hair Salon Winning the War on Waste

Tanya Lewis

Ever heard of a Sustainable Salon? I had never heard of one until a new salon Red Hill Hair Studio on the Mornington Peninsula opened its doors. I was drawn by a sticker on the window advertising a recycling system, being an Eco Organiser® I just had to know more, so I popped in and had a chat.

I was soon to  discover there are many salons under the Sustainable Salon banner in Australia and New Zealand, recycling chemicals, hair, metals, paper, plastics, razors, tools and more. Continue reading