On December 31st 2019 at 6pm I sit down with a glass of water and I decided to lose weight, get fit and organise my life in 2020. I had spent the day looking at social media friends galloping around the British countryside, taking fabulous photos of trees and interesting 'things' or grinning in country pubs. If I had posted pictures of my day you would have seen me elbow high in jumpers, rolling knickers the Marie Kondo way, sorting long and short leggings and packing away summer clothes.

January 1st: I got to bed at 2am and woke up at 8am, walked the dogs, poured myself a cup of coffee, the phone rang and next thing I knew I was heading over to my mum's to help her out. No more time or energy for my stuff.

Decluttering! My New Year's Resolution failing already. Where do I start??

Would you believe it...Instagram 2nd January 2020: I found out that Ashley Jordan, the one and only @Fairygodperson, is going to grant my wish for a tidy home and mind. Ashley is posting decluttering tip or job a day for 30 days on her Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn feeds. These are bite sized jobs that will build up, so that by the end of January our clutter will be under control and we can all focus on stress free living. Today, I spoke to Ashley and asked about her New Year’s Resolution campaign that’s going to help us all to de-clutter and reclaim our space in 2020.

30 days to declutter your home on Instagram with @fairygodperson

"Time to sort out your fridge!"

@fairygodperson Day 1-2nd January

When I read the first tip and did it, I felt a real sense of achievement. A planned declutter of my home, taking it one step at a time, is really going to help me get freed up the stress of thinking 'I've done this and that for others but I haven't even done my own home.' Doing that one little thing on day one really helped me clear out the dregs of Christmas and helped me to free up my stress levels. Ashley who has devised the 30 day declutter campaign is a professional organiser. I asked her how she came up with this plan that really understands what we are looking for at the start of a new year?

"January is always my busiest time of the year. People's New Year's resolution is to do a clear out, it's what's been annoying them. They're thinking 'Right, got to tackle it. I've got to get my house in order' ".

"I'm running this across Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook. I'm reaching out to young professionals, to the children of parents who might be moving, or people who need to organise their own home so they can help their parents better. I can help everyone get organised."

The biggest thing people say to me when they want to do a clutter clear - I don't know where to start...The essence of these 30 days of tips is helping people know where to start because it breaks it down for them. Where do I begin? At the beginning!

"I do know that people are not going to do everything..they are going to be at work or doing things on some days so they can't do everything that I suggest because some of these tips will be a big job that takes a whole day. At least it's there to do in the future. This will help people to break it down."

"my specific thing is helping in people's homes, helping them to de-clutter or to help when people are downsizing or moving home."

I asked Ashley how she discovered she had the superpower of organising. 

She told me that working in offices she found that when she started to look at the systems and ways of working she naturally re-organised and set up systems that made everything easier and saved money, she would tell her employers “…why things weren’t working and how they can work better and I was always able to re-organise everything ”

Ashley set up One Stop Organisers to "organise things for other people and over the years it's morphed into being specifically for the older generation and people with disabilities...the house move side of things for them for making their space work better."

"When I first started I was helping my best friend and her husband with filing and sorting our their paperwork...and he designed my logo adding a halo because "I thought about how it made me feel when you've been in. I feel so much at peace, you have been angelic. It's as if you have waved your magic wand."

My ideal client is someone who is downsizing, over 65, downsizing from a large home into something smaller and they don't know where to start, because they have probably lived in that home for 20, 30, 40, 50 years. 

Ashley told me about the stress of de-cluttering, how she helps people get through the stress of deciding what to get rid of when de-cluttering and downsizing and about the moments of satisfaction when a job is done.

You must also find some moments of joy? Finding something you had forgotten about, awakening really good memories. 

"Absolutely. I find people stories of their lives. Because you are going around their home decluttering..every part of their house has a story. I find it a prival