Bigger Buckets Revisited: Rethink Your Paper-Filing Categories
The Clutter Fairy explores ways to rethink paper sorting and storage by defining “bigger buckets.”
Entries by Edward F. Gumnick
Texas Winter Storm Report | Viewer Comments and Questions
The Clutter Fairy reports on the winter storm that paralyzed Texas last week and responds to comments and questions from our audience.
Stop Juggling and Start Organizing: Setting Project Priorities
The Clutter Fairy discusses setting priorities, one of the key skills for an aspiring “organizing acrobat.”
No Loss of Enthusiasm: Build Motivation for Your Organizing Projects
The Clutter Fairy offers strategies for finding—or recovering—the motivation to keep your organizing projects and resolutions going strong.
A Matter of Style: Organizing from a Variety of Perspectives
The Clutter Fairy discusses a variety of organizing styles and offers suggestions for identifying a decluttering workflow that fits your strengths and needs.
Nests, Empty or Otherwise: Reclaiming and Surrendering Space
The Clutter Fairy discusses the challenges of finding ourselves with an “empty nest”—and of children or elderly parents moving back into our spaces.
Child’s Play and Adult Joy: Organizing Your Recipes and Cookbooks
The Clutter Fairy offers strategies for filtering and organizing your saved recipes and introduces a new “homework assignment” segment—and a contest!
Countdown to 2021: 10 Tips to Wrap Up Your Decluttering Year
The Clutter Fairy offers 10 quick ideas—in the form of a countdown, of course!—for making the most of the last fleeting moments of 2020.
Season’s Greetings! Self-care Tips for the Holiday Season
The Clutter Fairy’s holiday wish is that you’ll set aside a moment for self-care during this season. We hope the season of light brings you good health and good spirits!
Make Space for the Life You Love: Setting Organizing Goals for 2021
The Clutter Fairy explains how to leverage clutter challenges as the inspiration and starting point for setting goals and planning organizing projects.
Guilt-free Task Management: Make Your To-do List Work for You
The Clutter Fairy explores sources of task-management resistance and talks about redesigning your to-do list as a tool for success instead of a catalog of failures.
Getting Things Done Takes the Stress and Confusion out of Task Management
The Clutter Fairy enthusiastically recommends David Allen’s Getting Things Done as an engaging, easy read for anyone looking to establish or renovate their system of task management.
