The Clutter Fairy Blog

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Survey #157: Lawn and Garden Season | Downsizing

We’ve prepared a survey to learn more our audience’s experiences with lawn and garden season and the emotional and logistical challenges of downsizing.
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Ask Us Anything: Breaking Up Is Hard | Tiny Bathrooms | Why We Procrastinate

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The Clutter Fairy explores why it’s hard to break up with your stuff, organizing a tiny bathroom, and why we procrastinate—and how to break the cycle.

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Organizing for Lawn and Garden Season | Challenges of Downsizing

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Food, Form, and Function: Organizing Your Kitchen and Pantry

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The Clutter Fairy explores the sources of kitchen clutter and offers strategies to optimize your kitchen to fit your food habits, tastes, and lifestyle.

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Ask Us Anything: Breaking Up is Hard | Tiny Bathrooms | Why We Procrastinate

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Shifting Ground: How Life Changes Complicate Your Clutter Landscape

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The Clutter Fairy talks about keeping your organizing mojo and momentum even when life changes make you feel as if the ground is moving beneath your feet.

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Food, Form, and Function: Organizing Your Kitchen and Pantry

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Ask Us Anything: Clearing Big Stuff | Art & Craft Spaces | Getting Out the Door

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The Clutter Fairy discusses how to declutter large, cumbersome items, recaps art or craft space organizing, and offers tip to help you get out the door.

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Shifting Ground: How Life Changes Complicate Your Clutter Landscape

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Creative Destruction: Craft a Strategy to Organize Almost Any Room

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The Clutter Fairy outlines a process for analyzing the contents, purposes, and layout of a room to create a decluttering and organizing strategy.

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Ask Us Anything: Clearing Big Stuff | Art & Craft Spaces | Getting Out the Door

January is NAPO GO (Get Organized!) Month

Celebrate “Get Organized Month” by (re)Starting Organizing Projects

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The Clutter Fairy offers strategies for planning and implementing a rock-solid organizing project.

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Creative Destruction: Craft a Strategy to Organize Almost Any Room

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Drink a Cup o’ Kindness: Happy New Year from The Clutter Fairy!

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The Clutter Fairy pledges to support and encourage our community in making 2023 your best decluttering and organizing year yet!

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Celebrate “Get Organized Month” by (re)Starting Organizing Projects

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Gayle Presents Her “Nice” List for 2022 | Happy Holidays!

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The Clutter Fairy thanks our clients, patrons, subscribers, viewers, and listeners for your support this year and wishes you a peaceful holiday season!

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Celebrate “Get Organized Month” by (re)Starting Organizing Projects

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Hit Pause on Organizing Projects | Self-care for Holiday Stress

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The Clutter Fairy suggests strategies for maintaining commitment to projects that we’ve placed on hold—plus self-care tips for the chaotic holiday season!

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Our first webcast of the new year! Topic(s) to be announced

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Ask Us Anything: Favorite Things, Shared Workspaces, Listen to Your Clutter

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The Clutter Fairy discusses a focus on favorites, organizing shared workspaces, and answers the question, “What is your clutter trying to tell you?”

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Hit Pause on Organizing Projects | Self-care for Holiday Stress

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Landmarks and Losses: Organizing Around Life’s Memorable Moments

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The Clutter Fairy discusses how to face the special clutter issues that arise around life’s traumatic events, disruptions, and major milestones.

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Ask Us Anything: Favorite Things, Shared Workspaces, Listen to Your Clutter

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Ask Us Anything: Motivation; Organize Papers for Tax Season; Stuff for Company

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The Clutter Fairy discusses cultivating and renewing motivation, organizing papers for tax preparation, stuff we keep to be ready for company, and more.

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Landmarks and Losses: Organizing Around Life’s Memorable Moments

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A Season for Edits: Make Space for the 2023 Version of Your Life

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The Clutter Fairy suggests taking a personal inventory focused on clearing space for wonderful new things in your life in 2023.

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Ask Us Anything: Motivation; Organize Papers for Tax Season; Stuff for Company

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Significant Others: Organizing with (or in Spite of) Other People

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The Clutter Fairy discusses how to work with—or around—spouses, children, parents, roommates, or any other people who contribute to clutter to our homes.

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A Season for Edits: Make Space for the 2023 Version of Your Life

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Ask Us Anything: Unfinished Projects, Micro-/Macro-organizers, Common Mistakes

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The Clutter Fairy discusses micro- versus macro-organizing styles, common organizing mistakes, and how many unfinished projects is too many.

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Significant Others: Organizing with (or in spite of) Other People

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A Detour Down Memory Lane: Declutter Stuff with Sentimental Value

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The Clutter Fairy explores sentimental clutter and offers tips for balancing sentimental value with our real-world conditions of time, energy, space, and resources.

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Ask Us Anything: Unfinished Projects, Micro-/Macro-organizers, Common Mistakes

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AUA: Walk-in Closets, A Place for Everything, Downsizing as We Age

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The Clutter Fairy discusses walk-in closets, “a place for everything,” downsizing as we age, and hiring professional cleaners for extreme-clutter situations.

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A Detour Down Memory Lane: Declutter Stuff with Sentimental Value

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Less Work, More Peace: Uncluttered Home for the Holidays 2022

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The Clutter Fairy suggests strategies to streamline the holiday season for yourself and your loved ones with simpler, less stressful, less-cluttered approaches to gift-giving, decorating, and entertaining.

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Ask Us Anything: A Cornucopia of Short Topics and Your Questions

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Everything Depends on Execution: Decluttering Philosophy at Work

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The Clutter Fairy reviews the elements of the “personal philosophy of decluttering” and offers practical tools to clarify decision-making.

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Less Work, More Peace: Uncluttered Home for the Holidays 2022