Expert says do this job today and you're home will be ready for Christmas

With four weekends to go until Christmas, it's time to prep the house (Image: © 2024 PA Media, All Rights Reserved)

If you haven't begun your Christmas preparations yet, a creeping sense of anxiety may well be taking hold. For those hosting celebrations this year, the realisation that just four weekends remain before the big day might feel rather overwhelming.

However, there's no need to worry, according to Ingrid Jansen and Lesley Spellman, founders of Declutter Hub, which boasts 60,000 Facebook members and 2.5 million podcast downloads. They insist there's ample time to organise your home and manage the considerable festive workload.

Four weeks is actually sufficient, they maintain. "If you allocate a short burst of time every day to do some decluttering, planning and organising