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Tag Archive for: grief

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Decluttering and Organizing in Relation to the Death of a Spouse

March 6, 2026
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The Clutter Fairy probes implications of a spouse’s death on clutter and organizing and offers strategies to plan for and manage this difficult transition.

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Book Club: New Order: A Decluttering Handbook for Creative Folks (and Everyone Else) (Wolf)

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

May 14, 2025
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New and Improved: Declutter to Streamline Your Renovation Project

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Ask Us Anything: Short Topics and Viewer and Listener Questions

November 8, 2024
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The Clutter Fairy Weekly—topic still to be determined

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Vicious Cycle: Clutter as a Symptom and Cause of Negative Emotions

April 19, 2024
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The Clutter Fairy offers strategies for working around or through negative emotions to move your projects forward no matter where you’re starting from.

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Your Best and Your Worst: Household Sweet Spots and Problem Areas

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Feeling, Meaning, Value: Untangling Emotional Attachment to Stuff

October 4, 2023
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The Clutter Fairy scrutinizes sentimental clutter and offers tips for balancing emotional attachment with real limitations of time, space, and resources.

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Yours, Mine, Ours: Sharing or Delegating Responsibility for Clutter

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A Hard Bargain: More of Your Most Difficult Organizing Challenges

September 7, 2023
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The Clutter Fairy explores more factors that make organizing projects and tasks difficult and suggests strategies to help you face those challenges.

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Sharpen Your Tools: How to Organize for Arts, Crafts, and Hobbies

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I’ve Got a Feeling: When Emotions Complicate the Organizing Process

February 9, 2022
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The Clutter Fairy examines negative feelings that complicate decluttering and offers encouragement to put positive emotions to work in the process.

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Spread Too Thin, Piled Too High: Clutter in the Sandwich Generation

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Estate of Confusion: Clear Estate Clutter (and Plan to Prevent It)

October 19, 2021
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The Clutter Fairy shares stories from the estate-clutter trenches and suggests ways to make the clearing process easier for yourself, your spouse, your parents, and your own children or heirs.

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Resistance is Not Futile: Avoid or Escape the Consumerism Mindset

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