The Clutter Fairy Weekly #116
Decluttering with Bigfoot: Organizing Myths versus Reality
Some of us approach organizing projects with our heads stuffed full of myths, legends, and baldfaced lies that we’ve heard—the product of popular TV shows, mass-market books, nagging parents, and other people’s confusion. In episode #116 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, uncovers the realities hiding behind some of these popular myths and misconceptions about decluttering your stuff.
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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.
Bust a Myth
This week’s assignment is to ask yourself whether you can deconstruct a decluttering myth that’s keeping you stuck:
- Reflect on your attitudes and beliefs about your organizing process and projects. Are any of them based on myths we talked about in this episode?
- Think about where you’re stalled in your process, and especially about whether you’re holding on to a belief that stops your progress, such as “The final result has to be perfect,” or “I’m saving this for a garage sale.”
- Craft an alternative statement about or approach to your myth-bound behavior: Donate or dispose of the theoretical garage sale treasures, or recycle or trash the mountain of mail with your name on it instead of saving it for shredding.
For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.
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Tittle after PC #116.
Papers, What’s at the bottom?…Stalling over every piece as I must touch/then save!
2 = 30gal paper leaf bags and counting; Spent time @ campground feeding the fire while I climbed this Mountain of mail leaving this myth in ashes. Very powerful. Thank you Gayle, Ed and all.