The Clutter Fairy in the Media

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Psychological Roots of Clutter: The Perception of Value (YouTube Video)

The April 2015 Clutter Coaching Meetup explored why our notions of perceived value create problems in our physical spaces.
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Clutter Coaching Meetup: Focus on Your Stories (YouTube Video)

The March 2015 Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup focused on members’ answers to questions about clutter problem areas.
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Getting Organized in the New Year: Rethinking Resolutions (YouTube Video)

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Expecting monumental changes in yourself just because you’ve started using a new calendar is NOT a recipe for success.
Year of the Goat

Endings and Beginnings: Making Room for New Possibilities (Youtube Video)

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The end of the year is a fitting time to reflect on who you are and who you want to be. Clear out stuff that no longer serves you to make room for new possibilities.
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Uncluttered Home for the Holidays: Organizing Tips for a Peaceful Season (YouTube Video)

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The 2014 edition of The Clutter Fairy’s annual tips for simpler, less-cluttered solutions to holiday decorating, entertaining, and gift-giving.
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Clutter Hacks: Tiny Tricks that Can Make a Big Difference (YouTube Video)

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The Clutter Fairy offers a baker’s dozen easy, five-minute tricks to move you toward a clutter-free life. Try all 13 or pick the ones that will make the biggest difference for you!
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Your Personal Space of Shame: Organizing the Final Frontier (YouTube Video)

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The Clutter Fairy tackles clutter trouble spots and offers tips for reclaiming your “personal space of shame.”
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Maintenance: How to Keep Your Decluttering Machine Running Smoothly (YouTube Video)

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Whether you’re confronting a long-term clutter problem or starting anew in a pristine space, a critical part of creating an organized life is maintenance.
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We’re Not Getting Any Younger: Clutter and Aging (YouTube Video)

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As we age, our clutter problems get more complicated by the needs of elderly parents or loved ones, our desire to share mementos and family history, and our own physical limitations.
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Piles and Heaps and Mounds: Dos and Don’ts of Organizing Paper (YouTube Video)

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Paper clutter is a universal First World problem—we all accumulate too much of it and face the challenge of figuring out what we really need to keep.
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Preparing to Move Out: Decluttering Strategies for Moving…or Staying Put (YouTube Video)

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There’s nothing like the pressure of moving to help you throw away stuff you don’t need! But even if you aren’t moving soon, you can still use moving strategies to let go of excess.
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Getting Past Overwhelmed: Cultivating Decluttering Habits (YouTube Video)

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People with clutter issues often report feeling overwhelmed—they know where they’d like to end up, but they can’t see a way to get there. The Clutter Fairy suggests better ways to think about clutter problems.
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Executing Your Organizing Plan: 50 Ways to Leave Your Clutter (YouTube Video)

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For our 50th meetup, we offered a jump-start list of 50 action items to kick off your organizing plan.
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Holiday Meetup: Making a Plan for a More Organized 2014 (YouTube Video)

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Plan your first organizing project of the new year: supplies, timelines, and support to transform last year’s problem area into next year’s blissful space.
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Organizing for the Unforeseen: How to be Prepared for a Clutter Crisis (YouTube Video)

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Crisis: an unexpected move, a death, a natural disaster—take steps now to help yourself or your loved ones manage better when trouble arises.
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Untidy To-do Lists & Cluttered Calendars: Organize for Time and Task Management (YouTube Video)

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Just like our physical spaces, our schedules and lists of things to do can become messy and unmanageable.
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Clutter Hacks #2: Five Minutes to Reclaim Space in the Fridge (YouTube Video)

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The Clutter Fairy outlines an incremental approach to purging the refrigerator of old and expired food.
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Clutter Hacks #1: Five Minutes for Dishwasher Progress (YouTube Video)

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Take an incremental approach to managing the dishwasher, rather than turning kitchen cleanup into a monumental task by saving it to do all at once.
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The Ask Kim Jordan Show: Organizing Products (YouTube Video)

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Kim Jordan, host of Houston 55’s The Ask Kim Jordan Show, interviews Gayle Goddard about organizing products for the closet and home office.