Marie Kondo: Six top tips to organise your home and life 

Here's what worked for us after we read the new book Kurashi at Home: How to Organise Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life 

Marie Kondo advises planning and setting a deadline.

Who doesn’t give the house the once-over coming up to Christmas?

After two successive festive seasons with restrictions on visitors to our homes, we might just go wild and start welcoming guests en masse across the threshold, and that alone could be the motivation to get the gaff in order, with bonus points earned from the opportunity to rid ourselves of excess belongings before Christmas gifting brings the onslaught of more stuff.