🧺 making space for calm

by Kasey from Kasey Clears The Clutter

Hi everyone!It’s Kasey here, I’m the one who gets called in when the Tupperware drawer starts attacking people 😅

This week I spent a morning with a family whose kitchen bench had disappeared under lunchboxes, notes from school, and about twelve half-empty water bottles.

By the time we’d cleared it, you could breathe in the room again.The mum looked at me and said, “I didn’t realise how noisy it all felt until now.”

I see that a lot.The mess is rarely about laziness, it’s about life happening faster than we can keep up.

When families invite me in, I see love in motion:sticky fingerprints, school projects, mismatched plates from three different stages of life.

When we start sorting, stories come out.

“This was from her first birthday.”

“He made this in preschool.”

I always say, keep the memory, not the mess.

Because when you clear a surface, you make room for life to happen again.

The next stop is usually the kids’ stuff, the corners where playtime has slowly taken over.

I always say you can tell the season of a family’s life by their toy baskets.There’s the puzzle stage, the dinosaur stage, the slime stage (may it pass quickly 🙏).

I never tell parents to throw everything out.We just sort together, what still brings joy, what’s missing pieces, what’s ready to be passed on.

When children see their toys cared for and chosen with intention, they learn something gentle:that order isn’t about rules, it’s about respect.

A tidy play space doesn’t mean less fun.

It means everyone can actually find the fun again.

Decluttering doesn’t stop when the bags are packed, that’s actually my favourite part.I help families take things all the way out of the house.

Sometimes that means loading the car and dropping items at charity.Other times it means photographing and selling things online for you, because every little bit helps.

It’s not just about tidying, it’s about freeing space, energy, and sometimes even a few dollars for something new.When a home breathes again, so do the people inside it.

If you’ve been feeling buried by the small stuff, maybe it’s time for a gentle reset.

Start with one drawer, one shelf, or just the toy corner.

It’s not about perfection, it’s about peace.

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