The Clutter Fairy Blog

Balancing Act: Managing Your Decluttering Projects and Priorities

/

Watch the YouTube video:

The Clutter Fairy suggests ways to leverage your strengths and minimize negative feelings as you strive for balance in decluttering project priorities.

Visit our web site for all the details, including the Weekly Tittle.

Join us next week for:
Work with a Professional Organizer…or Organize Like You’re a Pro

Green apple balancing against stack of macaroons on purple seesaw on pink background

Survey #251 Results: Balancing Organizing Projects, Tasks, and Priorities

/
The results are coming in! View the responses to Survey #251: Balancing Organizing Projects, Tasks, and Priorities.
Green apple balancing against stack of macaroons on purple seesaw on pink background

Survey #251: Balancing Organizing Projects, Tasks, and Priorities

What kinds of organizing or decluttering projects trip you up? Which ones are a breeze? How do they make you feel? Take our survey!

Children’s Artwork | Attractive Storage | Turning Into Your Mother

/

Watch the YouTube video:

The Clutter Fairy offers guidance on how much kids’ artwork to keep and answers more questions from our viewers and listeners.

Visit our web site for all the details.

Join us next week for:
Balancing Act: Managing Your Decluttering Projects and Priorities

Give Stuff Away Through Creative Donation, plus More Short Topics

/

Watch the YouTube video:

The Clutter Fairy discusses unconventional places to take donated items—plus other short topics suggested by our audience.

Visit our web site for all the details, including the Weekly Tittle.

Join us on April 1 for:
Balancing Act: Managing Your Decluttering Projects and Priorities

Pots and vases of flowers in florist's shop

Survey #249 Results: Unconventional Donations | Acquiring versus Using

/
The results are coming in! View the responses to Survey #249: Unconventional Donations | Acquiring versus Using.
Pots and vases of flowers in florist's shop

Survey #249: Unconventional Donations | Acquiring versus Using

Do you have ideas for unconventional places to take donated items? What kind of stuff do you acquire faster than you can use it? Take our survey!

Book Club: Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism (Sasaki)

/

Watch the YouTube video:

The Clutter Fairy reviews Goodbye, Things and discusses the lessons we can take from this popular book about a minimalist approach to decluttering.

Visit our web site for all the details, including the Weekly Tittle.

Join us next week for:
Give Stuff Away Through Creative Donation, plus More Short Topics

Simple, traditional Japanese room

Survey #248 Results: Are You Ready to Say Goodbye to Your Things?

/
The results are coming in! View the responses to Survey #248: Are You Ready to Say Goodbye to Your Things?.
Simple, traditional Japanese room

Survey #248: Are You Ready to Say Goodbye to Your Things?

What’s your impression of minimalism? What did you take away from Goodbye, Things? Does your stuff own you or vice versa? Take our survey!

Paper Problems: Pile-purging Practices for Productivity and Peace

/

Watch the YouTube video:

The Clutter Fairy discusses the reasons we keep more paper than we need and offers pointers for purging your personal paper piles.

Visit our web site for all the details, including the Weekly Tittle.

Join us next week for:
Book Club: Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism (Sasaki)

Huge collection of small cardboard shipping boxes

Gayle Unscripted: What Do We Really Need? and Other Questions

/

Watch the YouTube video:

The Clutter Fairy answers audience questions about the nature of need, shopping, keepsakes, estate/auction sales, breaking down large projects, and more.

Visit our web site for all the details, including the Weekly Tittle.

Join us next week for:
Paper Problems: Pile-purging Practices for Productivity and Peace

Mess of crumpled balls of paper, one of them lavender

Survey #247 Results: How Do You Look on Paper?

/
The results are coming in! View the responses to Survey #247: How Do You Look on Paper?
Mess of crumpled balls of paper, one of them lavender

Survey #247: How Do You Look on Paper?

How serious is your paper organizing backlog? How well do you manage new paper coming in? What kinds of paper get your stuck? Take our survey!

Excavate the Welcome Mat: Declutter and Organize for Entertaining

/

Watch the YouTube video:

The Clutter Fairy talks about what guests need from us and suggests ways to start entertaining even if your space is still a work in progress.

Visit our web site for all the details, including the Weekly Tittle.

Join us next week for:
Paper Problems: Pile-purging Practices for Productivity and Peace

Teddy bear birthday party

Survey #246 Results: Entertaining Obstacles, Plans, Dreams, and Stuff

/
The results are coming in! View the responses to Survey #246: Entertaining Obstacles, Plans, Dreams, and Stuff.
Teddy bear birthday party

Survey #246: Entertaining Obstacles, Plans, Dreams, and Stuff

How has clutter interfered with your ability to entertain guests? What are your ideal events to host? What’s standing in the way? Take our survey!

Significant Others: Decluttering with (or in Spite of) Other People

/

Watch the YouTube video:

The Clutter Fairy discusses how to work with—or around—the other people who contribute to clutter in our homes.

Visit our web site for all the details, including the Weekly Tittle.

Join us next week for:
Excavate the Welcome Mat: Declutter and Organize for Entertaining

Bumps in the Road: How Major Life Events Complicate Our Organizing

/

Watch the YouTube video:

The Clutter Fairy explains how major events confound our efforts to organize and suggests strategies for keeping momentum in spite of life’s interruptions.

Visit our web site for all the details, including the Weekly Tittle.

Join us next week for:
Significant Others: Decluttering with (or in Spite of) Other People

Re-cluttering Anxiety | Thrifting | Lasting Effects of Decluttering

/

Watch the YouTube video:

The Clutter Fairy answers viewer and listener questions and discusses short topics suggested by our audience in our surveys and through other channels.

Visit our web site for all the details, including the Weekly Tittle.

Join us next week for:
Bumps in the Road: How Major Life Events Complicate Our Organizing