The Clutter Fairy Weekly #98
Clarify Boundaries to Keep Focus in Your Organizing Efforts
It’s easy to get confused as you navigate the blurry borders between decluttering, organizing, and ticking off your routine cleaning and maintenance chores. In episode #98 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, clarifies the distinctions between clearing clutter, organizing, and tangential household tasks and offers strategies for keeping focus as you pursue organizing goals.
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The Weekly Tittle is an exercise designed to focus your attention on a specific space, aspect, or challenge of decluttering and organizing your home. We assign a new tittle in each webcast/podcast, then check on your progress the following week.
In No Time Flat
We know this can be a hectic time of year, so we’ve chosen what we hope will be a relatively easy assignment for this week:
- Choose one flat surface in your space that’s collected items that don’t belong there. No surface is too small for this task!
- Remove any trash, recyclable materials, dirty dishes, packaging, or other debris.
- Take anything that belongs somewhere else and put it away. Right now.
- Assess what’s left. Is everything here useful, pleasing to the eye, and appropriate? If not, assign it a new place to live or consider letting it go.
For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.
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I love your show. Here and on YouTube where I typically hear/watch you. It’s beautiful the way you share. Many great thoughts. I have the beginnings of a hoarder house. It’s getting hard to move. It’s very distressing. My fiancé and I are in our 60s. Just too much. With my ADHD, it’s really difficult. If you ever want to share thoughts for people with true challenges, I’d love to see that.