Curveballs and Crossroads: Rethinking Our Stuff in Changing Times
The Clutter Fairy explores the transitions that disrupt our lives and suggests ways to adjust our thinking and behavior around stuff to help us move forward.
Entries by Todd Mahloch
The Way We’ve Always Done It: Assumptions, Expectations, and Clutter
The Clutter Fairy examines the assumptions and expectations we inherit from our family or culture—or entrench in our own habits—and offers fresh perspectives on our must-have stuff.
Bags, Baskets, and Bins: Favorite Organizing Tools and Materials
The Clutter Fairy explains how a few carefully selected organizing products can make a world of difference in your space and shares a few current favorites.
Sharing Space: Strategies for Reducing Household Conflict and Clutter
The Clutter Fairy examines how relationships complicate organizing challenges and suggests ways to improve communication, negotiation, and cooperation to reduce household clutter conflict.
From Aerobics to Zumba: Organizing for Fitness and Fun
The Clutter Fairy offers strategies for organizing clothing, gear, and accessories for relaxation and fitness to maximize your fun and benefits.
All Tied Up in Knots: Creative Clutter Problem-Solving
The Clutter Fairy offers strategies for cutting through our emotional tangles to arrive at creative, practical solutions to clutter problems.
Problem Shopping: The Clutter Fairy Primer on Retail Therapy
The Clutter Fairy examines the phenomenon of “retail therapy” and offers strategies for keeping balance and perspective in our shopping habits.
Spring Forward: Timely Household Projects for Big Decluttering Wins
The Clutter Fairy looks at often-neglected areas of our homes and lives and offers pointers to help us spring forward in the coming weeks.
Clutter Hacks: Five-minute Tasks that Pack a Big Decluttering Punch
The Clutter Fairy offers a dozen five-minute tasks to jump-start your clutter-prevention strategy, plus a pet-centered Weekly Tittle.
Clutter to Catastrophe: More Organizing for Safety and Ease of Access
The Clutter Fairy asks questions that uncover where clutter danger lurks in our homes and offers strategies to improve access and regain peace of mind.
Escaping the Stacks: A Saner Approach to Books and Magazines
The Clutter Fairy talks about bringing the book-buying impulse into line with how much you actually read and explores what to do after you’ve read all those literary gems.
Crafts, Hobbies, and Sports: Get Out of What You’re No Longer Into
The Clutter Fairy talks about how to think about changes in our interests, evaluate the debris thereof, and let go of the old to make room for new passions.
