The Clutter Fairy in the Media

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Keep the Clutter, or Give it Away? Value, Gifting, and Donation

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The Clutter Fairy discusses gifting, donation, and how our notions of value impact our decision-making about what we keep and what we’re willing to let go.

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Get Your Motor Running: Is Decluttering a Journey—or a Destination?

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Yours, Mine, Ours: Sharing or Delegating Responsibility for Clutter

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The Clutter Fairy discusses how to manage and share responsibility for clutter among interested parties with clear communication and gentle negotiation.

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Keep the Clutter, or Give it Away? Value, Gifting, and Donation

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Feeling, Meaning, Value: Untangling Emotional Attachment to Stuff

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The Clutter Fairy scrutinizes sentimental clutter and offers tips for balancing emotional attachment with real limitations of time, space, and resources.

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Yours, Mine, Ours: Sharing or Delegating Responsibility for Clutter

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Are We Ever Finished Decluttering? Organizing With No End in Sight

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The Clutter Fairy ponders the question of whether we’re ever finished decluttering and offers tips for setting goals that keep you engaged and motivated.

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Feeling, Meaning, Value: Untangling Emotional Attachment to Stuff

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Sharpen Your Tools: How to Organize for Arts, Crafts, and Hobbies

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The Clutter Fairy examines stuff that accumulates from hobbies, arts, and crafts and offers strategies for keeping “crafty clutter” from spoiling our fun.

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We’re taking next week off, but we’ll be back for our next episode on September 26. Watch you email for an announcement of the topic.
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A Hard Bargain: More of Your Most Difficult Organizing Challenges

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The Clutter Fairy explores more factors that make organizing projects and tasks difficult and suggests strategies to help you face those challenges.

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Sharpen Your Tools: How to Organize for Arts, Crafts, and Hobbies

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A Rock and a Hard Place: Facing Difficult Organizing Challenges

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The Clutter Fairy explores factors that make the hardest organizing projects and tasks so difficult and offers strategies to help you face those challenges.

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A Hard Bargain: More of Your Most Difficult Organizing Challenges

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Ask Us Anything: Viewer and Listener Questions and Orphan Topics

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The Clutter Fairy answers viewer and listener questions and discusses short topics suggested by our audience in response to past surveys.

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A Rock and a Hard Place: Facing Difficult Organizing Challenges

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Stem the Tide: Tips to Prevent or Reduce Clutter at its Sources

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The Clutter Fairy examines clutter “origin stories” and suggests simple and subtle behavioral changes that can make a big difference in your clutter landscape.

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Ask Us Anything: Viewer and Listener Questions and Orphan Topics

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Low-hanging Fruit: Easy Wins to Start or Restart Your Decluttering

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The Clutter Fairy offers a few simple criteria for assessing your stuff and suggests easy starting places to “thin the herd.”

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Stem the Tide: Tips to Prevent or Reduce Clutter at its Sources

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Clutter Dangers: Organize for Safety, Mobility, and Ease of Access

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The Clutter Fairy uncovers the dangers lurking in our clutter and offers tips for optimizing space for safety, mobility, health, and ease of access.

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Low-hanging Fruit: Easy Wins to Start or Restart Your Decluttering

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Clutter and Recidivism: How to Avoid Re-stuffing Unstuffed Areas

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The Clutter Fairy examines ingrained behaviors of “clutter recidivists” and suggests strategies for breaking patterns that lead back to clutter.

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Clutter Dangers: Organize for Safety, Mobility, and Ease of Access

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Peace Process: Reducing Household Conflict, Confusion, and Clutter

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The Clutter Fairy explores how other people complicate our organizing and offers tips to improve communication, negotiation, and cooperation about clutter.

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Clutter and Recidivism: How to Avoid Re-stuffing Unstuffed Areas

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Reimagine Your Space to Break Free from the Clutter Status Quo

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The Clutter Fairy suggests shaking up your clutter status quo and offers strategies to reimagine your space for progress on decluttering and organizing.

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Peace Process: Reducing Household Conflict, Confusion, and Clutter

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Tick, Tock: Set Realistic Time Expectations for Organizing Projects

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The Clutter Fairy explores the complexities of estimating and allocating time for organizing work and suggests ways to set realistic time expectations.

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The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Topic to Be Announced Soon!

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Rethink and Reframe Your Clutter Language: The Power of Words 2

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The Clutter Fairy examines words we use to describe our clutter and suggests reframing language for a clearer insight into our stuff and our lives.

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Tick, Tock: Set Realistic Time Expectations for Organizing Projects

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What Are Your Clutter Set Points, and How Can You Change Them?

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The Clutter Fairy talks about how we arrive at clutter set points—the “right” volume of stuff for our needs—and how we can change them.

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Rethink and Reframe Your Clutter Language: The Power of Words 2

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Make Space for Your Best Life: Declutter for Health and Well-being

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The Clutter Fairy discusses impacts of clutter on our physical, emotional, and psychological health and the health benefits of taking control of our spaces.

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Clutter Klatsch Virtual Coworking Session

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Life Is a Journey: Prepare and Pack for Smooth Vacation Travel

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The Clutter Fairy offers tips for planning, packing, and preparing for lower-stress vacation travel.

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Make Space for Your Best Life: Declutter for Health and Well-being

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Irreplaceable: Managing Family Photos, Heirlooms, and Memorabilia

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The Clutter Fairy offers strategies for managing family photos, heirlooms, and other “priceless” memorabilia.

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Life Is a Journey: Prepare and Pack for Smooth Vacation Travel