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Event Series The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

Vicious Cycle: Clutter as a Symptom and Cause of Negative Emotions

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Negative emotions complicate and compound the difficulty of managing our clutter. Guilt, shame, fear, grief, anger, and other painful feelings reduce our ability to focus and make decisions, and cluttered spaces and piles of stuff can aggravate our emotional distress. In episode #208 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers strategies for working around or through negative emotions to move your projects forward no matter where you’re starting from.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Event Series The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

How Much Lining Does an Empty Nest Need? and Other Good Questions

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An audience member asked, “How much should you keep for your ‘little birdies’ while they’re testing their wings?” There are difficult decisions and challenges to face as you transition from a full house to an empty nest. In episode #207 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses not-quite-empty nests, Earth Day organizing, and other questions and short topics suggested by our viewers and listeners.

We prepared a survey to learn about our audience’s experiences related to this episode’s topics. To answer the survey, please see Survey #207: Empty Nests | Earth Day Declutter | Indoor–Outdoor Work Balance.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Event Series The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast)—cancelled

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There will be no episode of The Clutter Fairy Weekly this week because Gayle will be traveling to the NAPO 2024 Summit in Long Beach. We’ll be back next week!

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Event Series The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

Recognize and Avoid the Slippery Slope that Leads Back to Clutter

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An audience member asked, “What should we do if we notice ourselves becoming more disorganized than usual?” The good news is that you can learn to recognize the warning signs that clutter is creeping back into your previously organized life. In episode #206 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores the tendency to relapse into cluttering behaviors and offers tips for maintaining good habits and routines to stay organized.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Event Series The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

It’s the Little Things: The Organizing Challenges of Small Items

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Do you sweat the small stuff? Little things can cause some of our biggest organizing headaches: spice jars, tiny bottles and tubes of notions and potions, jewelry, accessories, sticky notes and scraps of paper, the contents of purses, and all the various bits and bobs that collect in our lives and our homes. In episode #205 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers strategies for corralling the collections of small items that present big organizing challenges.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Look Good on Paper: Control the Influx and Manage What You Keep

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Paper is a plentiful source of clutter—and frustration—for many people. Even though our digital lives offer us more options than ever for “going paperless,” paper clutter still seems to keep stacking up. In episode #204 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines habits, behaviors, and attitudes that lead us to keep more paper than we need or can manage and offers pointers for purging your personal paper piles.

We prepared a survey to learn about our audience’s experiences related to this episode’s topic. To answer the survey, please see Survey #204: Do You Look Good on Paper?.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Event Series The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

Look Good on Paper: Control the Influx and Manage What You Keep (postponed)

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Paper is a plentiful source of clutter—and frustration—for many people. Even though our digital lives offer us more options than ever for “going paperless,” paper clutter still seems to keep stacking up. In episode #204 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines habits, behaviors, and attitudes that lead us to keep more paper than we need or can manage and offers pointers for purging your personal paper piles.

We prepared a survey to learn about our audience’s experiences related to this episode’s topic. To answer the survey, please see Survey #204: Do You Look Good on Paper?.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Event Series The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

Convenience vs. Clarity | Avoiding Consumerism | Cluttered Siblings

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Join us for another “Ask Us Anything” episode. We’ll answer viewer and listener questions and discuss short topics suggested by our audience in our surveys and through our other channels. In episode #203 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses striving for balance between convenience and clarity, how to avoid falling victim to ads and consumerist messages, and organizing and cluttering styles among siblings.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Event Series The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

Spring Is in the Air: Leap into Cleaning with a Plan for Success

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This month presents a rare treat—an extra day on the calendar! How about using some of that bonus time to get a jump on your spring cleaning by drafting a project plan? In episode #202 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, peeks into often-neglected corners of our lives and shares a list of simple cleaning chores where you can rack up big spring wins.

We prepared a survey to learn about our audience’s experiences related to this episode’s topic. To answer the survey, please see Survey #202: Spring Cleaning and Your Burning Questions.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Event Series The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

Love Me, Love My Clutter: Organizing Styles and Relationships

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We love the people in our lives—and we also love our stuff. But sometimes our feelings about and behavior with regard to our clutter can create distance, conflict, or tension with people we care about. In episode #201 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines the ways in which our attachment to stuff complicates our relationships and offers strategies for defusing conflict and holding space for love.

We prepared a survey to learn more about our audience’s experiences related to clutter and relationships—and Valentine’s Day! To answer the survey, please see Survey #201: Love in the Time of Clutter.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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