Clearing Your Clutter
Feng shui's first rule, for the house you live in now. Before you move a bed, hang a crystal or paint a door, you clear the clutter. Everything else works better once it is done.
Twenty pages, with workbook pages to write on. It is the guide my Home Reset clients get before we meet, and you can have it free.
Four questions.
- Do you feel stuck more often than you would like to admit?
- Do you end the day thinking you got nothing done?
- Is there a room you avoid, or a cupboard you do not open?
- Are you downsizing, or emptying a parent's house, and cannot face where to begin?
If you said yes to even one, start here. After 50 there is often more of it than ever: thirty years of a family's things, and rooms that belonged to children who now have houses of their own. The good news is that you finally have the time, and probably the nerve.
The method I have taught since 2007.
Love it, use it or lose it
The three questions that decide every object in the house, and the eight kinds of clutter they catch.The four boxes
Keep, donate, garbage and not sure. Start with one drawer, not one room.Room by room
From the front hall to the garage, including the children's old rooms and the good china.The clutter you cannot see
Promises, worry, draining people and the word yes. Five short lists to clear your head as well as your house.Living with other people
What to do about a partner's pile on the chair, and two laundry baskets that halve the work.Afterwards
Clearing the space with air, light and sound, the three rules that stop it creeping back, and a simple bagua test.Who wrote it
I am Fay Chapple, a Feng Shui Master. For years I ran a design firm, did full house audits and taught this as a workshop. I first wrote this guide in 2007 and have rewritten it for the house you live in now.
Once the clutter has gone, you may want help with what comes next: where the bed goes, which room is for what, and what your own directions are. That is the Home Reset. The guide is yours either way.