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Thursday, May 27, 2010
7:00–8:30 p.m.
Gayle Goddard facilitates the monthly meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group.
At the May meetup, we’ll follow up on the project we introduced in April: The Garage Is Also a Place to Park Your Car. Come tell the group about your progress and we’ll share hints about how to keep rolling.
Your bedroom can be a sanctuary.
We’ll also introduce our focus for June: Refuge or Rat’s Nest?: The Master Bedroom. You spend a third of your life there, so wouldn’t it be great if your bedroom were a place of sanctuary? We’ll talk about what needs to be in your inner sanctum and what doesn’t, and we’ll discuss how to craft a floor plan that fits your lifestyle.
[See the Program Notes for this meetup.]
As usual, we’ll also open the floor to your questions, success stories, and tales of trouble spots. And don’t forget the drawing for a door prize or two! (You must be present to win.)
Please note our new location this month:
Henshaw House (Nature Discovery Center)
Russ Pitman Park
7112 Newcastle St.
Bellaire, TX 77401
713-667-6550
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
7:00–8:30 p.m.
Gayle Goddard facilitates the monthly meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group.
At the April meetup, we’ll follow up on the project we introduced in March: “The Home Office: Productive Workspace or No Man’s Land?” Come tell the group about your progress and we’ll share hints about how to keep rolling.
The garage is also a place to park your car.
We’ll also introduce our focus for May: “The Garage Is Also a Place to Park Your Car.” We’re heading into prime garage sale season, so now is the time to move the junk out and the car in and give yourself a bonus of some vacation cash. We’ll talk about how garages become the storage space of last refuge and graveyard of deferred decisions—and what you can do to change that.
As usual, we’ll also open the floor to your questions, success stories, and tales of trouble spots. And don’t forget the drawing for a door prize or two! (You must be present to win.)
SPECIAL NOTE: Our April meeting will be on the FIFTH Thursday of April instead of our regularly scheduled fourth Thursday.
Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research
(Carriage House)
5300 Caroline
Houston, TX 77030
832-393-2600
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
7:00–8:30 p.m.
Gayle Goddard facilitates the monthly meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group.
At the March meetup we’ll follow up on the project we introduced in February: “Purging Paper Piles: Getting Yourself Ready for Tax Season.” Come tell the group about your progress and we’ll share hints about how to keep rolling.
The home office: productive workspace or no man’s land?
We’ll also introduce our focus for April: “The Home Office: Productive Workspace or No Man’s Land?” If you’ve made progress clearing paper piles, then cleaning up your home office is a great next step! We’ll talk about how to streamline your files, manage the desktop, maybe rethink your furniture placement. Or do you need to create a filing system from scratch? We’ll take a fearless look inside the home office.
[See the Program Notes for this meetup.]
As usual, we’ll also open the floor to your questions, success stories, and tales of trouble spots. And don’t forget the drawing for a door prize or two! (You must be present to win.)
Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research
(Carriage House)
5300 Caroline
Houston, TX 77030
832-393-2600
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
7:00–8:30 p.m.
 Gayle Goddard facilitates the monthly meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group. The topic for February’s meetup will be “Clearing Out the Closet: Unpacking the Problem of Clothing Storage.” The dead of winter is a perfect time to dig through your closets. Gayle will offer strategies to sort and thin your wardrobe and put things back in a more organized way.
Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research
(Carriage House—Note: If the Carriage House is still under repair, we’ll meet in the main house. Look for a sign on the door if the lights aren’t on in the Carriage House.)
5300 Caroline
Houston, TX 77030
832-393-2600
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
7:00–8:30 p.m.
 Gayle Goddard facilitates the monthly meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group. The topic for January’s meetup will be “Getting Organized in the New Year: Rethinking Resolutions.” We’ll talk about New Year’s resolutions…and why they don’t always work. Gayle will offer suggestions about how to keep your organizing goals from collapsing before March. We’ll check in about what we accomplished (or didn’t) in 2009, and what’s next.
Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research
(Carriage House)
5300 Caroline
Houston, TX 77030
832-393-2600
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
7:00–8:30 p.m.
 Gayle Goddard facilitates the monthly meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group. The topic for December’s meetup will be “Clearing Clutter by Donation During the Charitable Season.” Take advantage of the charitable mood and prepare your space to receive another round of gifts at the same time. We’ll talk about clearing your clutter by making donations to people in need this holiday season.
Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research
(Carriage House)
5300 Caroline
Houston, TX 77030
832-393-2600
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Monday, November 16, 2009
6:30–8:00 p.m.
Gayle Goddard facilitates the monthly meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group. The topic for November’s meetup will be “Gift-buying Advice.” Ensure that the gifts you buy this holiday season don’t end up stuffed in the recipient’s closet. Gayle will offer some clutter-free gift giving advice.
Freed-Montrose Library
4100 Montrose Blvd.
Houston, TX 77006
832-393-1800
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
6:30–8:00 p.m.
Gayle Goddard facilitates the monthly meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup Group. We start each meeting with a short presentation on a specific organizing-related topic. Then we open the floor to your questions, comments, stories, and suggestions.
The topic for October’s meetup will be “Getting It Gone.” We’ll talk about how to get stuff out of the house once you’ve made up your mind to let go of it. A successful organizing project has to include disposing of the stuff that’s going away, or it turns into just another form of clutter. We’ll talk about where, when, and how to make stuff go away.
We’ll also have a drawing for door prizes! (You must be present to win.)
IMPORTANT NOTE: For October only, we’ve had to schedule the meetup at a different location and move the time earlier by half an hour to accommodate the library’s hours.
Freed-Montrose Library
4100 Montrose Blvd.
Houston, TX 77006
832-393-1800
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