Cleaning tips from Mrs Hinch and Marie Kondo

Marie Kondo's folding technique is so fabulous, it's even coined it's own name: the KonMari method. This is the process of folding clothes into a small square and stacking them upright, rather than face down. Marie's method means that you can fit more into your drawers and also see everything at once, so you'll never lose your favourite ASOS number again. Click 'more' to watch a tutorial from Marie herself. Marie's simple hack is so easy that even kids can get involved, it's a win-win!

Mrs Hinch makes cleaning SO easy - and shows us how to maintain a fresh home, too. Her simple method for masking nasty odours is genius. After cleaning her bin with disinfectant spray, Mrs Hinch covers a piece of kitchen roll in Zoflora, before folding it up and placing it at the bottom of her bin before inserting a new bin bag.

Happy home = happy mind: Psychologist and spatial expert, Helen Sanderson says that a clean home equals a clean mind. She says, "keeping your home in order is not only beneficial to your physical space, but can also bring about a psychological change." And she suggests using technology to ease the chore of tidying – and even to turn it into a peaceful process, "Using helpful tech such as the Google Home hub can help to kick start the decluttering process – and it can help you maintain the hard work by setting regular reminders. You can also listen to meditation music to help you focus on your decluttering goals."

Marie Kondo's clever tip for organising drawers both recycles old materials and saves you from spending your hard-earned cash on a new drawer divider. Marie advises to save old boxes use them to store small, loose items in drawers.

Your work isn't done if your car isn't as sparkling clean as Mrs Hinch's. We all have those parking receipts and old bottles shoved into the side pockets, which we inevitably forget to recycle. Mrs Hinch keeps a miniature recycling bin in her car, so there's no temptation to shove any old bits down the side pockets. And the clever cleaner doesn't stop there - rather than throwing her necessities into the car boot, she keeps an organiser with handy items such as dog towels, cleaning wipes and sprays.