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Tag Archive for: usefulness

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Value Versus Values: How We Think About What Our Stuff Is Worth

October 26, 2025
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The Clutter Fairy explores value-based patterns of thinking that lead to clutter and offers strategies for re-evaluating what we really want.

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Join us on October 28 for:
Service Solutions: When Doing All the Work Yourself Is Too Much

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Keep the Clutter, or Give it Away? Value, Gifting, and Donation

October 22, 2023
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The Clutter Fairy discusses gifting, donation, and how our notions of value impact our decision-making about what we keep and what we’re willing to let go.

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Get Your Motor Running: Is Decluttering a Journey—or a Destination?

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Survey #186 Results: Decluttering by Gifting and Donation

October 16, 2023
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The results are coming in! View the responses to Survey #186: Decluttering by Gifting and Donation.
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Survey #186: Decluttering by Gifting and Donation

October 14, 2023
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We’ve prepared a survey to learn more our audience’s experiences with topics related to episode #186 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly.
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Rethink and Reframe Your Clutter Language: The Power of Words 2

June 23, 2023
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The Clutter Fairy examines words we use to describe our clutter and suggests reframing language for a clearer insight into our stuff and our lives.

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Tick, Tock: Set Realistic Time Expectations for Organizing Projects

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The Power of Words: Understand and Reframe Your Clutter Language

April 13, 2022
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The Clutter Fairy examines words that we use to talk about our cluttered lives and shares insights into how to reframe language to clarify our relationship with stuff.

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Decluttering with Bigfoot: Organizing Myths versus Reality

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For What It’s Worth: Assessing Value in the Struggle Against Clutter

June 22, 2021
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The ABCs of Clutter: An Alphabet of Organizing Ideas

The Clutter Fairy examines value-based emotional responses and habits of thought that sabotage our ability to get or stay organized.
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Holding On and Letting Go: Ownership, Gift-Giving, and Value

November 12, 2020
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The Clutter Fairy talks about ownership, gift-giving, and how our judgments of value impact our decision-making about what we keep and what we’re willing to let go.
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