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Thin the Herd: A Clutter Fairy Guide to Talking About Organizing - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #190
Season 4 Episode 190
Our recent surveys included a question inviting our audience to offer your favorite “Clutter Fairy-ism,” decluttering and organizing aphorism, or hel…
2 years, 5 months ago
Deep-Storage “Solutions”: Why Forgotten Is Not the Same as Gone - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #189
Season 4 Episode 189
People stash excess stuff in storage units, parents’ homes, second houses, backyard sheds, garages—anywhere that’s easy to ignore. But hideaways aren…
2 years, 5 months ago
Smiling Faces and Warm Wishes: Decluttering the Holiday Season - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #188
Season 4 Episode 188
We’re kicking off the season of fun, food, shopping, celebration, and chaos that runs from Halloween into the new year. This year, why not make the h…
2 years, 5 months ago
Get Your Motor Running: Is Decluttering a Journey—or a Destination? - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #187
Season 4 Episode 187
In response to a recent survey, an audience member asked, “How do you get your motor running? Is it okay to put the car in Park for a while? Are deto…
2 years, 5 months ago
Keep the Clutter, or Give it Away? Value, Gifting, and Donation - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #186
Season 4 Episode 186
It’s October, so the season of giving—and of giving stuff away—is right around the corner. How do we decide to donate or gift something? And what doe…
2 years, 6 months ago
Yours, Mine, Ours: Sharing or Delegating Responsibility for Clutter - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #185
Season 4 Episode 185
There are many circumstances and relationships in which the responsibility for stuff becomes blurred—between parents and children, among roommates or…
2 years, 6 months ago
Feeling, Meaning, Value: Untangling Emotional Attachment to Stuff - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #184
Season 4 Episode 184
As we work to reduce the clutter in our spaces, sometimes we find that our relationship to stuff seems hopelessly tangled up in our memories, beliefs…
2 years, 6 months ago
Are We Ever Finished Decluttering? Organizing With No End in Sight - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #183
Season 4 Episode 183
People who struggle with clutter sometimes get discouraged by how far away and out of reach our goals seem to be. We ask ourselves, “Will I ever fini…
2 years, 6 months ago
Sharpen Your Tools: How to Organize for Arts, Crafts, and Hobbies - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #182
Season 4 Episode 182
The activities we do to relax, have fun, and express ourselves enrich our lives in countless ways, but they can also bury our living spaces in tools,…
2 years, 7 months ago
A Hard Bargain: More of Your Most Difficult Organizing Challenges - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #181
Season 4 Episode 181
Some categories of decluttering and organizing are harder than others. But if we focus on the sources of the difficulty, we gain fresh insight that w…
2 years, 7 months ago