The Magic of Tidiness

Tidy Home, Tidy Mind. Your physical environment has a profound effect on you, physically and emotionally. Clutter in your surroundings can cause you to feel overwhelmed and tired, even depressed. If you’ve ever spent time you could have better used elsewhere searching for something in a pile of papers, a crammed closet, or a disheveled drawer, you know how frustrating it is to deal with clutter.
Here are several good reasons to be more tidy.

Benefits of Being Tidy

• You may feel less stress in a neat house where you know how to locate everything.
• Neat desks and workspaces are linked to increased creativity.
• Non-cluttered homes help guard against tripping and falling.
• When you let go of things you don’t need or that don’t bring you joy, what’s left are things that make you feel happy when you see them.
• Your home will be more pleasant visually without clutter.
• You’ll have more space, and that space will be easier to clean.
• You may have more money. If you have valuables you don’t love, you can sell them.
• De-cluttering brings a tremendous sense of accomplishment, even joy.

This is an article printed in the Spring 2017 MetLife Life Advice newsletter. Their source is Marie Kondo’s book: The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up.

If you are struggling with de-cluttering your home or office we can help.

​Adele Gross