Sorted by Gwen

Name: Sorted by Gwen
Address: 23 Orchard Drive, Belfast, BT236QT, GB
Telephone: +447845909800
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Decluttering, Organising and Admin Systems for home or business Domestic decluttering. Home and business organisation. Business systems and efficiency

29/09/2026

This weekend I experienced for myself how things can deteriorate if you keep them too long. Wardrobe malfunction!

There are obvious things like compostable bags - their whole point is that they ‘melt’. I had one client who stockpiled them, which was totally pointless.

For me it was a pair of Mary Jane flat shoes, maybe 8-10 years since I had worn them. I checked their soles, as I’d recently seen on a FB group a photo of old unused shoes on which the soles has disintegrated, mine seemed fine.

However, about 2 hours after putting them on I looked down and they were in bits! The top layer was peeling off and they were awful! I was in company and didn’t want to leave a trail!

Back to my trainers which thankfully were not far away. At least I got another post and a lesson to share with you out of this experience!

Don’t keep it for ‘best’ or ‘just in case’. Buy what you need and pass on what you aren’t using.

19/09/2026

Have you gone on a cruise? Stayed at a hotel? One of the reasons that it’s so relaxing to stay away from home is that you get a break from your STUFF!

Just the minimum needed for a restful bedroom - a chair with no clothes hanging over it, art that isn’t personal, bathrooms that are hopefully, functioning perfectly. Ahhhh!

But maybe you are one of those guests who gather up all the little bottles of bathroom wash and bring them home, adding them to the basket of similar stuff from previous trips….

Leave it behind. Don’t add to your clutter. Resist the ‘free’ items.

04/09/2026

Have you ever been to a Repair Cafe?

These have sprung up across Northern Ireland and are usually run monthly in an area. Volunteers spend their morning helping to fix the items people bring.

There’s nearly always a clock, a toy, electrical items but all sorts of things can be fixed.

Last Saturday I took the iron - mostly used by my husband - the extra steam switch had stopped working. The volunteer Owen took it apart, checked a video and fixed the problem. I have to say I LOVED his fixing tray with sections for screws and parts to sit in.

Great job! Thanks to the team at Carryduff Repair Cafe.
I’ll be back!

27/08/2026

Every day I use an App to learn French, I took up language learning for several reasons - but mostly as it’s good for your brain as you get older.

A while ago I was delighted to learn the French for ‘to sort’ - it’s ‘trier’
Pronounced ‘tree-eh’ and I guess that’s where we get ‘triage’ from, sorting people in accident & emergency.

Maybe you are a trier when it comes to sorting. You try and you try but somehow you are still swamped with stuff.

Need help? Call in the professional - Sorted by Gwen will get you started and offer plenty of ways to help you to get sorted - once and for all.

Check out my website where you’ll find plenty of genuine recommendations from former clients.

Www.sortedbygwen.co.uk

01/08/2026

Back with a regular client this week and noticed a pie dish in the cupboard which looked like a lasagne in the wrong place. Turned out to be an attempt at making nougat which had gone wrong and seemed to be well stuck inside the dish!

Set to it and it actually came out without too much trouble. That’s it in the recycling bag.

A sticky mess which reminded me of my traybake disasters - a waste of ingredients.

Funny enough our French visitors last Saturday brought some nougat from Normandy. It is sticky and honey and nutty and hard to cut - but very tasty. It was years since I’d eaten nougat.

All in a day’s work

Sorted by Gwen

27/07/2026

Tackled a garage last week and it’s always great to have a few Before and After photos. Those are hard to get in my business, as you can imagine. ( not sure how the families on TV cope with everyone seeing their clutter!)

Tidied, cleaned up, boot filled, labelled some storage that was already there and brought everything together for house, garden, bikes, tools etc.

Very satisfying for both of us!

Got a job you can’t tackle alone? Call in Sorted by Gwen

18/07/2026

Sorted by Gwen has provided a wide variety of services over the years. It’s a while since I did some gardening, but I did design and plant out a section of garden in a Wicklow B&B years ago.

This week I did some cutting down of overgrown shrubs with a friend.
Here’s the BEFORE and AFTER for one of them.

Always plenty to do in my own garden and I do some of those projects when work is quiet.

Great weather for it!

Sorted by Gwen - what do you need help with sorting?

11/07/2026

Spotted this at a fine National Trust stately home earlier in the week.

I’m not convinced that the plate inscriptions are as old as most things in the house but the saying is probably pretty old.

A place for everything and every in its place

If you stuff is anything but following this rule, maybe it’s time to call in Sorted by Gwen

Buy less
Put your hand on what you are looking for quickly
Reduce the overwhelm
Simplify

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27/06/2026

This week I did some garden decluttering - in my own garden I hasten to add!

My wonderful clematis spreads further each year and I need to keep it off the summer house as it would damage the structure. But it had buried the lilac tree - planted in memory of a dear friend Lila.

With my friend visiting, she started pulling from the deck and we took off a whack of clematis. Later I got more from the other side. The lilac, which had managed a few blooms this year, is now free and the hydrangea might get to thrive again.

What discoveries have you made when you declutter?!

18/06/2026

Like a sunset, life changes and can be over too soon. It’s natural to hold on to things that ground us in our memories and remind us of our past experiences.

But what if you hold on to too much?

Who decides what is too much anyway?

This year I had two ‘almost clients’ who left it too late to deal with their precious and not so precious possessions.

Someone else may have to clear up after you. How much better to be able to decide who gets what, to give things away knowing they’ve gone to a good home - whether that’s to someone in the family or to a stranger through a charity shop.

Leaving lists and instructions is also a great idea and prevents worry that someone won’t know the value of a painting or a ring.

End of life preparation is one of the services that Sorted by Gwen offers. Creating lists that show your wishes or your passwords so that nothing is left to chance or digital oblivion.

Get in touch - it’s never too soon.

Head in a spin - get Sorted in!

Address

23 Orchard Drive
Belfast
BT236QT

Telephone

+447845909800

Website

https://www.sortedbygwen.co.uk/

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