Declutter with Cindy

My new mission is to stop so much food waste in our house. We buy lots of fruit and veg that quite often doesn’t get eaten in time and then we throw it out.😡🤯🥺It drives me crazy!! 🤪So now what I do is if the fruit and veg is not going to get eaten, I chop it all up and pop it in the freezer for when I do a batch cook. They go in dishes like curry’s, bolognaise, stirfys and dessert pies and crumbles.😋😋 This is also great for when you’re teaching kids to chop food up and also helps with motivation for them to cook when stuff is already chopped and they just have to add it in 🥳.

This bear is called Boris. He has been a part of our home since my eldest daughter was born over 19years ago. My husband bought him for her. He has moved from room to room and we have tried to move him on a few times but here he is, still with us. I am thinking I might as well save him for the grandbabies now! 😂 I am usually very good at moving things along but I think Boris is here to stay. 🥰

Potting Station is now complete. What do you think? I love it! 😍It will give me somewhere to store all of my spare pots 🪴 I found this bench next to a dumpster and a couple of my lovely friends managed to get it home for me. It wouldn’t fit in my car no matter how hard I tried 🤣. I gave it a lick of paint and some linseed soak. The pictures were painted by my very talented friend and are available by commission 😉 The little duck I bought at a market in Maree South Australia. She came with a man duck but I broke him 😭If any one knows where I could get another one, let me know!

I have a plant addiction which I need to curb. Anyone else? 🙋🏻‍♀️On one hand I really love them and can’t stop buying them but on the other they cause me stress from having to care for them and trying to keep them alive. Whats the solution 🤔 Until I come up with one I will just keep rearranging them which in itself is very therapeutic 😌 🌼🌸🌺

How’s your New Year’s resolutions going? One of mine was to not buy any more plants….I am failing miserably haha 😂🌱It was always going to be a hard one to keep!

Merry Christmas to you and your families!

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If you have space in your house that tends to get cluttered, try moving the clutter and place a plant there instead. Try it and think about how that feels when you move through the room and your eyes see the plant instead of the mess that needs to be sorted. I promise you it will feel so much better 😌

Pantries are a hot topic of conversation at the moment. So many beautifully laid out pantries on the internet! 😍😍😍

Some people may ask ‘Why would you bother emptying contents from a packet into a clear container?’ Well I am here to tell you that with everything now laid out in clear containers, it not only has made it easier for me to do the food order and meal prep but also everything is more visible, the kids have been eating a wider range of food and I now have an easy answer to the age old question - What can we eat? There’s nothing to eat! 😩😩🥖🍑🍒🍎🌮🥟🥧🍪It’s a win win from me! 👍👍

If you look at your pantry and feel completely overwhelmed and need a helping hand to get it sorted, give Declutter with Cindy a call 📞 We can sort it for you! www.declutterwithcindy.com.

Have you ever heard of ‘Swedish Death Cleaning’?
I love this concept! 💚💚
It is practiced quite widely in Sweden. Margareta Magnusson wrote a book about it called ‘The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning’. The concept is to only keep things that are important to you and that you need, to get all your things in order before you die, so your loved ones don’t have to deal with it after. It’s usually started around the age of 65 but Margareta believes every adult should do it.
It might sound a bit morbid but it doesn’t have to be. If you look around you at all your belongings and think about what your loved ones would need to deal with if you suddenly died it kind of spurs you into action to remove all the crap you don’t really even like or want or need. Try it!

If what you see looks overwhelming, then maybe you will need some help. That’s where I come in! Call today to book your initial consultation to set up a tailored plan just for you. I look forward to your call. x

The lovely little book is available at your local library 😊