The Clutter Fairy Blog

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Survey #207 Results: Empty Nests | Earth Day Declutter | Indoor–Outdoor Work Balance

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The results are coming in! View the responses to Survey #207: Empty Nests | Earth Day Declutter | Indoor–Outdoor Work Balance.
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Survey #207: Empty Nests | Earth Day Declutter | Indoor–Outdoor Work Balance

Are you still lining an empty nest? Do environmental issues factor into your decluttering decisions? Is the outdoors calling you away from indoor work? Take our survey!
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Recognize and Avoid the Slippery Slope that Leads Back to Clutter

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The Clutter Fairy explores the tendency to relapse into cluttering behaviors and offers tips for maintaining good habits and routines to stay organized.

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Join us on April 9 for:
How Much Lining Does an Empty Nest Need? and Other Good Questions

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Survey #206 Results: The Canary and the Wrecking Ball

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Canary perching on barbed-wire fence

Survey #206: The Canary and the Wrecking Ball

What are the warning signs that your decluttering habits are starting to slip? What factors tend to disrupt your good routines? Take our survey!
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It’s the Little Things: The Organizing Challenges of Small Items

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The Clutter Fairy offers strategies for corralling the collections of small items that present big organizing challenges.

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Recognize and Avoid the Slippery Slope that Leads Back to Clutter

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

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The Clutter Fairy examines habits, behaviors, and attitudes that lead us to keep more paper than we need and offers pointers for purging your paper piles.

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

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Survey #204 Results: Do You Look Good on Paper?

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The results are coming in! View the responses to Survey #204: Do You Look Good on Paper?
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Survey #204: Do You Look Good on Paper?

How big a problem is paper clutter in your home? Which types of paper give you the most trouble? Take our survey!
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Convenience vs. Clarity | Avoiding Consumerism | Cluttered Siblings

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The Clutter Fairy discusses balancing convenience and clarity, how to avoid consumerist messages, and organizing and cluttering styles among siblings.

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

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

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The Clutter Fairy peeks into often-neglected corners of our lives and shares a list of simple cleaning chores where you can rack up big spring wins.

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Convenience vs. Clarity | Avoiding Consumerism | Cluttered Siblings

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Survey #202 Results: Spring Cleaning and Your Burning Questions

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The results are coming in! View the responses to Survey #202: Spring Cleaning and Your Burning Questions.
Tree frog on green leaf

Survey #202: Spring Cleaning and Your Burning Questions

What challenges and difficulties does spring cleaning present? What question have you been desperately wanting us to ask? Take the survey.
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Love Me, Love My Clutter: Organizing Styles and Relationships

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The Clutter Fairy examines ways in which attachment to stuff complicates relationships and offers strategies to defuse conflict and hold space for love.

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

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Survey #201 Results: Love in the Time of Clutter

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The results are coming in! View the responses to Survey #201: Love in the Time of Clutter
Valentire’s Day gifts and decorations on pink wooden surface

Survey #201: Love in the Time of Clutter

How does clutter affect relationships? What objects evoke strong memories of people? And what is Valentine’s Day all about? We’d like your opinions! Take the survey.
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Why We Procrastinate and What We’re Planning to Do About It…Later

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The Clutter Fairy explores procrastination and avoidance behavior and suggests tips and techniques for breaking an unproductive cycle.

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Love Me, Love My Clutter: Organizing Styles and Relationships

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Just Right: Keeping Decor from Exacerbating Your Clutter Problem

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The Clutter Fairy examines ways that decor can lead to clutter and suggests strategies for right-sizing your decorative choices.

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Why We Procrastinate and What We’re Planning to Do About It…Later

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Good Questions: What to Ask Yourself as You Evaluate Your Stuff

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The Clutter Fairy explores the power of questions to unpack clutter issues and suggests queries that can get to the heart of our toughest challenges.

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Just Right: Keeping Decor from Exacerbating Your Clutter Problem

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A Game You Can Win: Using Gamification in Your Organizing Process

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The Clutter Fairy explores the pros and cons of gamifying your organizing process and suggests ways to set yourself up to win big.

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Join us January 23, 2024:
Good Questions: What to Ask Yourself as You Evaluate Your Stuff