I am sitting in the living room of my two bedroomed house drowning in clutter, this is my clutter, and I can't escape it. I am a naturally messy person, there is a photograph at my parents house of me all ready for my reception nativity (so I'm 4 or 5) behind me is a bank of drawers, all the drawers are closed neatly with the exception of one, mine, its sticking out with bits of paper overflowing everywhere, mess seems to be how I came into this world and I really don't want to be like it forever.
My husband gets annoyed at my mess, I understand this but I find it hard to change as its all I have ever known. I'll have a good clean and tidy and feel really proud of myself and then within a week I'm back to square one, drowning in crap.
We now have a two year old daughter and all the things that come with having a child increases the amount of crap exponentially so now not only do we have my crap we have a house full of toys and my mess is no longer viable so I need too do something about it.
We're also thinking about moving house next year and that will require having the house on the market, which means photos will need to be taken and I really want it to look nice and homely rather than a cluttered mess.
How?
Exactly, I can't do this on my own, I've spent at least 10 years trying and failing so I need help and I'm hoping that help will come from The Life Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo, she claims to be an expert in de cluttering and be able to turn the messiest person, i.e. Me, into someone who lives in a house of show home tidy ness, well we'll see.
