A Matter of Style: Organizing from a Variety of Perspectives
The Clutter Fairy discusses a variety of organizing styles and offers suggestions for identifying a decluttering workflow that fits your strengths and needs.
Entries by Edward F. Gumnick
Nests, Empty or Otherwise: Reclaiming and Surrendering Space
The Clutter Fairy discusses the challenges of finding ourselves with an “empty nest”—and of children or elderly parents moving back into our spaces.
Child’s Play and Adult Joy: Organizing Your Recipes and Cookbooks
The Clutter Fairy offers strategies for filtering and organizing your saved recipes and introduces a new “homework assignment” segment—and a contest!
Countdown to 2021: 10 Tips to Wrap Up Your Decluttering Year
The Clutter Fairy offers 10 quick ideas—in the form of a countdown, of course!—for making the most of the last fleeting moments of 2020.
Season’s Greetings! Self-care Tips for the Holiday Season
The Clutter Fairy’s holiday wish is that you’ll set aside a moment for self-care during this season. We hope the season of light brings you good health and good spirits!
Make Space for the Life You Love: Setting Organizing Goals for 2021
The Clutter Fairy explains how to leverage clutter challenges as the inspiration and starting point for setting goals and planning organizing projects.
Guilt-free Task Management: Make Your To-do List Work for You
The Clutter Fairy explores sources of task-management resistance and talks about redesigning your to-do list as a tool for success instead of a catalog of failures.
Getting Things Done Takes the Stress and Confusion out of Task Management
The Clutter Fairy enthusiastically recommends David Allen’s Getting Things Done as an engaging, easy read for anyone looking to establish or renovate their system of task management.
A Kind, Forgiving, Charitable, Pleasant Time: Declutter Via Donation
The Clutter Fairy suggests ways to lighten the clutter load during the giving season through donations to friends, family, neighbors, and charitable causes.
Stop the Fire Hose! Prevent Clutter at the Source
The Clutter Fairy suggests simple and subtle habit changes that will make a big difference in your clutter landscape.
Embrace Your Reason for the Season: Decluttering Holiday Preparations
The Clutter Fairy suggests lightening your load and brightening your life by focusing holiday preparations on what the season means to you.
Holding On and Letting Go: Ownership, Gift-Giving, and Value
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.
