Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup

Name: Your Home Is Not a Museum: Making Tough Choices About Collections
Start: 2025-06-17T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-06-17T13:00:00-05:00
Location: Online

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April 2025
The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast)—canceled for April 15, 2025

April 15, 2025, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM CDT

Online

There will be no episode of The Clutter Fairy Weekly this week because host Gayle Goddard is traveling to visit family. We’ll be back next week!

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Free
Work with a Professional Organizer…or Organize Like You’re a Pro

April 22, 2025, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM CDT The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

Online

Working with a professional organizer can help you take the fast lane to functional, clutter-free spaces. But even if you can’t hire an organizer, you can handle your decluttering and organizing projects with a professional’s care, creativity, and attention to detail. In episode #252 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses the process of working with a professional organizer and how you can apply a professional approach to managing your own projects.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Free
Dining Rooms: Traditional, Multifunctional, or Gone Out of Style?

April 29, 2025, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM CDT The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

Online

Contemporary home design has moved away from dining rooms in favor of open plans, great rooms, breakfast nooks, and other concepts. But some of us still live with formal dining rooms—or at least the furniture that went with them. In episode #253 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores the changing role of dining rooms and how families incorporate dining-room functionality in modern homes and lifestyles.

We prepared a survey to learn about our audience’s experiences related to this episode’s topic. To answer the survey, please see Survey #253: Dining Rooms—What Are They Good For?

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Free
May 2025
Positive Psychology for Clearing Clutter from Your Home and Head

May 6, 2025, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM CDT The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

Online

Decluttering can yield many psychological benefits, such as reduced stress and anxiety and a greater sense of calm. These gains can in turn make the work of decluttering and organizing more effective and rewarding. In episode #254 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, suggests ways to apply principles of positive psychology to clarify and energize our decluttering efforts.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Free
The Best Part of Moving | Decluttering Regret | Fixing No-go Zones

May 13, 2025, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM CDT The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

Online

Moving is a big hassle, but are there also good parts? How do we deal with regret over things that we've discarded? How can we make spaces in our homes that we tend to avoid more inviting? In episode #255 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, answers viewer and listener questions and discusses short topics suggested by our audience in our surveys and social-media channels.

We prepared a survey to learn about our audience’s experiences related to some of this episode’s topics. To answer the survey, please see Survey #255: No-go Zones and Decluttering Regret.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Free
New and Improved: Declutter to Streamline Your Renovation Project

May 20, 2025, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM CDT The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

Online

Renovating a cluttered space is like trying to cook in a messy kitchen. You might be able to make it work, but you’ll spend more time, money, and effort to get the results you want. In episode #256 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores how clutter complicates home renovation and DIY projects and offers strategies to set yourself up for success in your home reboot.

We prepared a survey to learn about our audience’s experiences related to this episode’s topic. To answer the survey, please see Survey #256: Clutter and Home Renovation.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Free
Yours, Mine, Ours: Seeking Clarity in Our Cluttered Relationships

May 27, 2025, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM CDT The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

Online

Clutter can interfere with our relationships, and complex relationships can make it harder to face our clutter. Managing our own stuff while navigating other people’s attitudes about our stuff—and theirs—requires patience, compassion, and understanding on all sides. In episode #257 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines the impact of clutter on relationships over time and offers strategies for bringing greater clarity and peace to our homes.

We prepared a survey to learn about our audience’s experiences related to this episode’s topic. To answer the survey, please see Survey #257: Clutter In and Around Our Relationships.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Free
June 2025
Book Club: Decluttering at the Speed of Life (Dana K. White)

June 3, 2025, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM CDT The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

Online

Dana K. White’s Decluttering at the Speed of Life is a real-world guide to making steady progress in decluttering your home. The book features a container-based approach to decision-making and a five-step process for reducing clutter in any area of the home. In episode #258 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, reviews Decluttering at the Speed of Life and discusses practical lessons we can learn from this enjoyable, accessible decluttering guide.

We prepared a survey to learn about our audience’s experiences related to this episode’s topic. To answer the survey, please see Survey #258: The Container Concept, the Visibility Rule, and No-mess Decluttering.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Free
The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast)—canceled for June 10, 2025

June 10, 2025, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM CDT The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

Online

There will be no episode of The Clutter Fairy Weekly this week because host Gayle Goddard is traveling to the NAPO board meeting. We’ll be back next week!

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Free
Your Home Is Not a Museum: Making Tough Choices About Collections

June 17, 2025, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM CDT The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

Online

Collections become clutter as soon as they outgrow our systems of organization, the space allotted to them, or our capacity to enjoy them. It takes a careful, thoughtful approach to store and display collections and to recognize when it’s time to cut back. In episode #259 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses collections—how they accumulate, why they get out of control, and what you can do to rein them in when the need arises.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Free