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    Enough Stuff: Embrace Your Reason for the Season (Meetup)

    A Healing Collective 4231 Bellaire Boulevard, Suite T, Houston, TX, United States

    The holiday season can mean many things: family and fun, carols and candles, good food and gratitude, shining lights and festive spirits. But it can also mean stress and burden as we overcommit our time, overspend our budgets, and overwhelm our homes with fresh clutter. At the November meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we’ll suggest a way to lighten your load—and brighten your life—by focusing your holiday preparations on what the season means to you. Let the things you treasure about the holidays guide your celebrations, and this year you’ll collect joyful memories instead of just more stuff.

    Free

  • Fresh bamboo leaves over water

    Breathing Room: Organize for Peace of Mind (Meetup)

    A Healing Collective 4231 Bellaire Boulevard, Suite T, Houston, TX, United States

    We’ll wrap up 2017 by looking at our spaces through the lens of peace of mind. What things in your home get in the way of feeling peaceful, rested, and rejuvenated? What’s creating negative emotions, standing in the way of positive experiences, or blocking your enjoyment of time at home? For the December meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we’ll offer suggestions for clearing the worst trouble spots, having constructive conversations with people who share your space, and moving toward a more serene environment.

    Free

  • Old photo camera, old pocket watch and old photos

    Head over Heart: Practical Alternatives to Staying Stuck in Your Clutter (Meetup)

    A Healing Collective 4231 Bellaire Boulevard, Suite T, Houston, TX, United States

    Many of us recognize the negative impact of clutter on our comfort, convenience, and relationships, but feel powerless to begin the overwhelming effort that decluttering entails. Decluttering happens piece by piece, but we can’t get it done when our stuff provokes conflicting emotions. Sometimes the reasonable voice gets drowned out by the panicked impulse to keep everything or defer every decision for another day.

    For our January 2018 meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we’ll suggest ways to set aside the emotional responses that stand in the way of the work of decluttering in favor of practical techniques that allow us to move forward. We’ll talk about cultivating detachment and objectivity by creating algorithms—rules to filter our stuff to fit our spaces and our present lives. We’ll offer examples of criteria you can apply to your own collections, or that will guide you as you define your own practical rules.

    Free

  • Dogs sharing housework chores

    Somebody Else’s Problem: Clutter in Relationships (Meetup)

    A Healing Collective 4231 Bellaire Boulevard, Suite T, Houston, TX, United States

    In many marriages, roommate situations, or other living arrangements, we find ourselves with a partner who is significantly more or less organized than we are. At best, this kind of imbalance creates tension; at worst, it leads to arguments, hurt feelings, and a heightened sense of overwhelm.

    For the February meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we’ll talk about how to navigate the troubled waters of clutter-unbalanced relationships. We’ll suggest strategies for communicating perceptions, needs, standards, and priorities, whether you’re the more- or less-organized partner. We’ll offer tips for negotiating agreements in pursuit of results that you can both live with.

    Free

  • Items for sale at a garage sale

    Clutter Conversation: Garage Sales; Maintenance; Organizing versus Free Time (Meetup)

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    We’re introducing something new for the April 2018 meetup: our first online event! We’ll meet using the Zoom.us video-conferencing app, a free tool that will allow us to share a conversation as live video and take questions from the audience via chat. Up to 100 people can participate live, and as always, we’ll record the event to post on YouTube.

    Our first conversation will address a few topics about which we get lots of questions:

    • Garage sales—Pros, cons, and tips for getting the best results with the least effort.
    • Maintenance routines—You’ve made progress on your organizing project; now how do you maintain the uncluttered space, and how do you keep the momentum?
    • Organizing versus free time—How do we find a balance between the need to organize and the desire to relax and enjoy our lives?
    Free

  • Moving boxes in bare white space

    Preparing to Move Out: Decluttering Strategies for Moving…or Staying Put (Meetup)

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    There’s nothing like the pressure of moving to help you throw away things you don't need! Whether you purge by choice or because you're too exhausted to keep packing, the demands of a move are guaranteed to reduce your pile of possessions. But even if you won't be moving any time soon, you can still use moving strategies to help you let go of excess in your life.

    This will be our second “Clutter Conversation” online event. We’ll meet using the Zoom.us video-conferencing app, a free tool that allows us to share a conversation as streaming video and take questions from the audience. Up to 100 people can participate live, and as always, we’ll record the event to post on YouTube. About a week before the event, we’ll send a reminder notice to everyone who has RSVP’d to provide instructions for sharing your questions and comments live by video, audio, or chat.

    Free

  • Castlewellan maze, Ireland

    Vicious Circle: Clutter as a Symptom and a Cause of Negative Emotions (Meetup)

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    Negative emotions complicate and compound the difficulty we have processing clutter. Guilt, shame, fear, grief, anger, and other painful feelings reduce our ability to concentrate and make decisions, and cluttered spaces and piles of stuff can aggravate the emotional distress. For the June meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we'll offer a few ideas to help you work around or through the negative emotions.

    Free

  • Head over Heart 2: More Practical Tools for Taking Emotion Out of Decluttering (Meetup)

    A Healing Collective 4231 Bellaire Boulevard, Suite T, Houston, TX, United States

    In January, we introduced the idea of algorithms—sets of simple rules—for filtering our stuff to fit our spaces. That presentation generated great feedback and a lot of requests for more examples. For the next meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we’ll suggest criteria you can apply to more types of clutter, including kids’ stuff, office supplies, reading material, and more. We’ll talk about periodically revisiting and adjusting your rules to reduce your collections even more as your organizing project gains momentum.

    Free
  • Warehouse wall of boxes

    Leader of the Pack: The Clutter Fairy Guide to Packing (Meetup)

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    The Clutter Fairy has helped a lot of people pack a lot of stuff. Are you packing for a move, for long-term storage offsite, for storage in your home, or to send something in the mail or by courier service? At the August meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we’ll offer advice on best practices and warn you about pitfalls to avoid so your stuff will be in good shape when it finally comes out of the box.

    Free

  • Scrapbooking craft materials on bright background

    Your Organized Studio: Take Creativity to the Next Level (Meetup)

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    The studio where an artist or crafter works can be the birthplace of genius…or the place where great ideas go to die. The difference is sometimes just a matter of organization—being able to see, find, and use the beautiful materials that inspire and feed your creativity. For the next meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group, we’ll talk about how to know when your studio has stopped supporting your work. We’ll suggest a few ideas to reset your creative space and refresh your creative soul.

    Free

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