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Look Good on Paper: Control the Influx and Manage What You Keep

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Paper is a plentiful source of clutter—and frustration—for many people. Even though our digital lives offer us more options than ever for “going paperless,” paper clutter still seems to keep stacking up. In episode #204 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines habits, behaviors, and attitudes that lead us to keep more paper than we need or can manage and offers pointers for purging your personal paper piles.

We prepared a survey to learn about our audience’s experiences related to this episode’s topic. To answer the survey, please see Survey #204: Do You Look Good on Paper?.

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.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Event Series The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

Look Good on Paper: Control the Influx and Manage What You Keep (postponed)

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Paper is a plentiful source of clutter—and frustration—for many people. Even though our digital lives offer us more options than ever for “going paperless,” paper clutter still seems to keep stacking up. In episode #204 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines habits, behaviors, and attitudes that lead us to keep more paper than we need or can manage and offers pointers for purging your personal paper piles.

We prepared a survey to learn about our audience’s experiences related to this episode’s topic. To answer the survey, please see Survey #204: Do You Look Good on Paper?.

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.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Event Series The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

Stem the Tide: Tips to Prevent or Reduce Clutter at its Sources

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One obvious way to avoid a clutter problem—or to get control of the one you already have—is to stop accumulating stuff in the first place. By paying careful attention to our collecting habits, we can shift our behavior to hold back the flood tide of new clutter. In episode #178 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, suggests simple and subtle behavioral changes that can make a big difference in your clutter landscape.

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.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Event Series The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

Breaking Down a Big Project | Paper Primer | Part of the Landscape

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Big organizing projects can disrupt your routines and leave you feeling swamped and overwhelmed. We’ll suggest tips to help you break down and keep control of big projects.

Almost everyone who struggles with clutter can point to paper as one of their challenges. We’ll offer a short primer on managing the paper you decide to keep.

How do you deal with things that have been in your life for as long as you care to remember? We’ll talk about dealing with stuff that’s become part of the landscape.

In episode #159 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses these topics and answers questions from our viewers and listeners.

We prepared a survey to learn more our audience’s experiences related to this episode’s topics. To answer the survey, please see Survey #159: Big Projects | Paper Clutter | Part of the Landscape.

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.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Breaking Down a Big Project | Paper Primer | Part of the Landscape—canceled

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We’ve had to cancel this event because Gayle is under the weather. We’ll present the topic originally scheduled for March 7 when we meet next on March 14.

Big organizing projects can disrupt your routines and leave you feeling swamped and overwhelmed. We’ll suggest tips to help you break down and keep control of big projects.

Almost everyone who struggles with clutter can point to paper as one of their challenges. We’ll offer a short primer on managing the paper you decide to keep.

How do you deal with things that have been in your life for as long as you care to remember? We’ll talk about dealing with stuff that’s become part of the landscape.

In episode #159 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses these topics and answers questions from our viewers and listeners.

We’ve prepared a survey to learn more our audience’s experiences related to this episode’s topics. To answer the survey, please see Survey #159: Big Projects | Paper Clutter | Part of the Landscape.

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.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Event Series The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast series)

Ask Us Anything: Motivation; Organize Papers for Tax Season; Stuff for Company

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In this week’s “Ask Us Anything” (AUA) show, we answer your questions and discuss topics suggested by our viewers and listeners.

In this episode:

  • Tips to cultivate motivation or keep your motivation fresh
  • Organize papers to be ready for tax-filing time
  • The stuff we keep to be ready for company

In episode #145 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, answers audience questions and discusses these topics, as well as other organizing and decluttering issues.

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.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Balancing Work, Life, and So Much More: Clutter in the Home Office

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Working from home created unique clutter challenges even before the pandemic. But now, between sharing home workspaces with spouses and housemates, Zoom studios, and kids’ classrooms, the rooms and spaces in our homes we dedicate to “office work” are under more stress than ever. In episode #129 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores clutter issues in home offices and workspaces and offers strategies for seeking “workspace/lifespace” balance.

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.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Looking Good on Paper: Take Control with a Few Smart Paper Practices (Meetup)

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

Like any other category of stuff, paper can stand in the way of your best life. It's a leading source of visual clutter, and failure to wrangle your paper can also waste time and effort, and even lead to financial and legal headaches.

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Reconsidering Paper: Six Ideas for Managing Your Paper Project (Meetup)

Nature Discovery Center 7112 Newcastle St., Bellaire, TX, United States

The key cause of the pileup is that paper never stops coming—not a day goes by that we don’t collect more junk mail, bills, receipts, magazines, invitations, advertisements, and so on. For our December 2015 meetup, we’ll examine the habits and beliefs that contribute to paper clutter. We’ll offer ideas to help you stem the tide of incoming paper, clear your backlog, and build a system to keep from ever falling behind again.

Watch the YouTube video of this meetup.

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Funny face peering over paper pile

Piles and Heaps and Mounds: Dos and Don’ts of Organizing Paper (Meetup)

Nature Discovery Center 7112 Newcastle St., Bellaire, TX, United States

Whenever The Clutter Fairy speaks to a group, she answers anxious questions about managing paper. Paper clutter is a universal First World problem—we all accumulate too much of it and face the challenge of figuring out what we really need to keep.

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