The Clutter Fairy Blog

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Down, But Not Out: The Clutter Fairy Guide to Downsizing

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The Clutter Fairy explores the challenges of shifting to a smaller space and applies downsizing lessons to “right-sizing” the stuff in our cluttered homes.

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Mindful Shopping: Don’t Let Retail Therapy Add to Your Clutter

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Ask Us Anything: Answers to Your Questions, Plus Ultra-short Topics

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The Clutter Fairy answers your questions about culinary plants, journal collections, and old clothes and covers other topics suggested by our audience.

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Down, But Not Out: The Clutter Fairy Guide to Downsizing

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Your Best and Your Worst: Household Sweet Spots and Problem Areas

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The Clutter Fairy explores household problem areas and clear zones and offers strategies for working toward a whole house that’s a clutter-free sweet spot.

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Ask Us Anything: Answers to Your Questions, Plus Ultra-short Topics

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Survey #209 Results: Household Sweet Spots and Problem Areas

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The results are coming in! View the responses to Survey #209: Household Sweet Spots and Problem Areas.
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Survey #209: Household Sweet Spots and Problem Areas

What are clutter problem areas and “sweet spots” in your home? What factors contribute to the ease or difficulty of organizing? Take our survey!
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Vicious Cycle: Clutter as a Symptom and Cause of Negative Emotions

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The Clutter Fairy offers strategies for working around or through negative emotions to move your projects forward no matter where you’re starting from.

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Your Best and Your Worst: Household Sweet Spots and Problem Areas

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How Much Lining Does an Empty Nest Need? and Other Good Questions

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The Clutter Fairy discusses not-quite-empty nests, Earth Day organizing, and other questions and short topics suggested by our viewers and listeners.

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Vicious Cycle: Clutter as a Symptom and Cause of Negative Emotions

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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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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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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.
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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.