The Clutter Fairy Weekly #152
Creative Destruction: Craft a Strategy to Organize Almost Any Room
Every home is different, and every room of the house has its own special clutter problems. But with a thoughtful approach, you can look beneath the mess to see a plan and design in the chaos. In episode #152 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, outlines a process for analyzing the contents, purposes, and layout of a room to create a decluttering and organizing strategy.
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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.
Think About a Room
This week’s assignment is to explore one troublesome room or space with a view toward developing a decluttering strategy specific to that space:
- Think about the room or space that you previously identified as the most chronically in need of decluttering or organizing attention.
- Answer the following questions about the nature and purpose of the room and your expectations about it:
- Does this room serve a single clear function or multiple functions?
- What activities take place—or can you imagine taking place—in this room?
- Who uses this room—the whole family, one family member, or anyone who lives in or visits your home?
- Who is responsible for the care for the room? Whose role is to clean or straighten up this room?
For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.
Our 2 bathroom home leaves one full bath suite just for me. It is multifunctional on several levels as not just personal hygiene care or bathing: it also serves as my imagined space for privacy and serene comfort. I am responsible for cleaning my own bathroom yet chronically leave used, wet towels just dropped over the last wet batch: sink/toilet/bath basin haphazardly cleaned for I resent what I hear in my “chatter” is a waste of my time…as it will just get messy all over again, later. I daily seek to create such a special place = have live, potted plants, inspirational pictures, a running fountain, shelves organized with all my essentials…all there so pretty, peaceful and yet, I just keep it messy. Dang!