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Get Off to a Strong Start (or Restart) in GO Month 2022

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The Clutter Fairy offers pointers to set yourself up for decluttering success or breathe new life into stalled organizing plans.

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I’ve Got a Feeling: When Emotions Complicate the Organizing Process

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AARP Family Caregivers Discussion Group: Decluttering Tips for Caregivers

Gayle Goddard took part in a chat with the AARP Family Caregivers Discussion Group. Enjoy decluttering advice from Gayle, Sharon Lowenheim, and Amy Tokos.
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Decluttering on a Budget: Tips and Tricks to Organize for Less

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The Clutter Fairy shares a collection of lower-cost organizing strategies for the do-it-yourself organizer on a budget.

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Get Off to a Strong Start (or Restart) in GO Month 2022

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Clearing Decluttering Clutter: Find an Approach that Works for You

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The Clutter Fairy explores popular approaches to organizing and explains how to choose a strategy that matches your levels of motivation, ability, and available time.

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Decluttering on a Budget: Tips and Tricks to Organize for Less

A Defining Moment: What “Clutter” Means in Your Life and Home

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The Clutter Fairy examines several definitions we can use to identify and categorize clutter and looks at how our understanding of the word impacts our approach to organizing.

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Clearing Decluttering Clutter: Find an Approach that Works for You

Make Changes You Can Love: Reframing Your New Year’s Resolutions

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The Clutter Fairy explains reasons why New Year’s resolutions fail more often than they succeed and suggests more effective ways to frame changes you want to make in your life.

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A Defining Moment: What “Clutter” Means in Your Life and Home

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Season’s Greetings from Our Family to Yours—Happy 100th Episode!

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The Clutter Fairy thanks our clients, patrons, friends, family, viewers, and listeners for your generous support and wishes you a joyous and peaceful holiday season filled with love and light!

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A Defining Moment: What “Clutter” Means in Your Life and Home

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Putting Projects on Hold | Self-care Tips for the Holiday Season

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The Clutter Fairy offers strategies for keeping focus and commitment for projects that we’ve put on hold. We also share a holiday gift of self-care tips!

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A Defining Moment: What “Clutter” Means in Your Life and Home

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Clarify Boundaries to Keep Focus in Your Organizing Efforts

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The Clutter Fairy clarifies the distinctions between clearing clutter, organizing, and tangential household tasks and offers strategies for keeping focus as you pursue organizing goals.

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Putting Projects on Hold | Self-care Tips for the Holiday Season

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Make Room for the Life You Love: Setting Organizing Goals for 2022

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The Clutter Fairy explains how to turn obstacles into the starting points and motivation for setting concrete goals and planning new organizing projects.

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Clarify Boundaries to Keep Focus in Your Organizing Efforts

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Values, Dreams, and Aspirations: Shaping a Vision for Your Home (Part 2 of 2)

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The Clutter Fairy integrates your values, dreams, and aspirations into the process of shaping a vision to clarify and guide your decluttering efforts.

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Make Room for the Life You Love: Setting Organizing Goals for 2022

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Form, Function, and Feeling: Creating a Vision for Your Tidy Home (Part 1 of 2)

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The Clutter Fairy suggests designing a vision for your home to guide your decluttering efforts and to reflect a truer picture of who you are and what you love.

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Values, Dreams, and Aspirations: Shaping a Vision for Your Home

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Armor for Everyday Life: Trends in Decluttering Your Wardrobe

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The Clutter Fairy discusses fresh ways to think about your personal style and offers alternative strategies to make your wardrobe manageable and fabulous.

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Form, Function, and Feeling: Creating a Vision for Your Tidy Home

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One Day at a Time: Establishing Daily Decluttering Routines

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The Clutter Fairy talks about how to stem the flow of clutter at the source by incorporating key decluttering habits into every day.

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Armor for Everyday Life: Trends in Decluttering Your Wardrobe

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Resistance is Not Futile: Avoid or Escape the Consumerism Mindset

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The Clutter Fairy talks about the effects of consumerism on clutter and offers strategies for resisting the onslaught of advertising messages to “right-size” your shopping habits.

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One Day at a Time: Establishing Daily Decluttering Routines

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Estate of Confusion: Clear Estate Clutter (and Plan to Prevent It)

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The Clutter Fairy shares stories from the estate-clutter trenches and suggests ways to make the clearing process easier for yourself, your spouse, your parents, and your own children or heirs.

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Resistance is Not Futile: Avoid or Escape the Consumerism Mindset

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Uncluttered Home for the Holidays 2021: Tips for a Peaceful Season

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The Clutter Fairy focuses on streamlining the holiday season for you and your loved ones and offers simpler, less stressful, less-cluttered approaches to holiday gift-giving, decorating, and entertaining.

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Estate of Confusion: Clear Estate Clutter (and Plan to Prevent It)

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The Value Equation: Mental Models for Making Sense of Our Clutter

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The Clutter Fairy examines mental models that contribute to the complexity of keep–toss decisions and offers strategies for making choices that work for your life.

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Uncluttered Home for the Holidays 2021: Tips for a Peaceful Season

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The Great Outdoors: Organize Your Garage, Balcony, Patio, or Shed

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The Clutter Fairy talks about the kinds of clutter that spill out of our homes and into our garages, patios, balconies, and sheds and shares ideas for making those spaces useful again.

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The Value Equation: Mental Models for Making Sense of Our Clutter