A Kind, Forgiving, Charitable, Pleasant Time: Declutter Via Donation
The Clutter Fairy suggests ways to lighten the clutter load during the giving season through donations to friends, family, neighbors, and charitable causes.
Entries by Edward F. Gumnick
Stop the Fire Hose! Prevent Clutter at the Source
The Clutter Fairy suggests simple and subtle habit changes that will make a big difference in your clutter landscape.
Embrace Your Reason for the Season: Decluttering Holiday Preparations
The Clutter Fairy suggests lightening your load and brightening your life by focusing holiday preparations on what the season means to you.
Holding On and Letting Go: Ownership, Gift-Giving, and Value
The Clutter Fairy talks about ownership, gift-giving, and how our judgments of value impact our decision-making about what we keep and what we’re willing to let go.
Money, Money, Money: The Problem with Monetary Value
The Clutter Fairy discusses definitions of value and factors that complicate our thinking about monetary value as it relates to the decluttering process.
Looking Through Rose-colored Glasses: Sentimentality and Clutter
The Clutter Fairy examines the rationalizations we use to hold on to things and suggests an approach to decision-making that balances sentimental value with our real-world conditions of time, space, and resources.
Clear Your Clutter, Love Your Life: Organize for Positive Change
The Clutter Fairy suggests how the decluttering process can serve as a release from bad feelings and a trigger for brightening your emotional landscape.
Just What IS Clutter, Anyway?
The Clutter Fairy explores the many criteria by which we may identify and categorize clutter for ourselves and the people with whom we share our spaces.
A Decluttering Philosophy: Putting it All Together
The Clutter Fairy looks for practical approaches to reduce the clutter coming in and to deal effectively with the stuff we already have.
Complex Choices: Ethical and Environmental Questions About Clutter
The Clutter Fairy asks ethical and environmental questions that can guide and influence our relationships with stuff.
One Bite at a Time: Clutter and Habits
The Clutter Fairy discusses habits—the routines or patterns of behavior that lead to bringing in or holding on to too much stuff, and how to cultivate better habits for preventing and reducing clutter.
Unpacking Our Baggage: Clutter and Emotions
The Clutter Fairy talks about emotions—the positive ones that can support the organizing process and the negative ones that interfere with our ability to declutter.
