The Clutter Fairy Weekly #104
Decluttering on a Budget: Tips and Tricks to Organize for Less
Not everyone has the resources to install custom storage solutions, field a team of professional helpers, or make unlimited supply runs to expensive stores. But a modest budget shouldn’t stand between you and the organized life you want to live! In episode #104 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, shares a collection of lower-cost organizing strategies for the do-it-yourself organizer on a budget.
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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.
Five-Minute Digital Declutter
This week’s assignment is to spend a few minutes reducing the accumulation of clutter in your electronic life. Getting rid of stuff you don’t need can free up space, save valuable time, and extend the useful life of your devices:
- Take inventory of your smart phone, tablet, or computer. Are there apps that you tried once and never launched again? Uninstall anything you don’t use.
- Scan your e-mail inbox for subscriptions in which you’ve lost interest—newsletters you don’t open or ads from places where you never shop. Unsubscribe from a few mailing lists.
- Review your downloads folders to purge unneeded installers, PDFs, images, or any of the myriad other kinds of files that get downloaded in the course of using your devices.
- Browse your photo collection and delete any images that are out of focus, badly lit, incomprehensible, or redundant. Keep only your favorite shots!
For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.
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Great tips and tricks! Love that you made a video for this. Made it so much easier to remember for me. Thank you!