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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

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Unintentional Collections: The Stashes We Gather Without Even Trying

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The Clutter Fairy identifies sources of unintentional collections and offers solutions for getting them under control.

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

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Overcoming Barriers: Simple Ways to Get Unstuck and Start Organizing

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The Clutter Fairy shares simple techniques to short-circuit negative thinking, get unstuck, and start reclaiming your space and your life.

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Unintentional Collections: The Stashes We Gather Without Even Trying

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Independence, Safety, Security, Comfort: Organizing to Age in Place

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The Clutter Fairy considers the pros and cons of “aging in place” from an organizing perspective and offers strategies for preparing your home for the future you.

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Overcoming Barriers: Simple Ways to Get Unstuck and Start Organizing

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The Kid Zone: Organizing Playrooms and Children’s Bedrooms

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The Clutter Fairy offers strategies for organizing children’s bedrooms and playrooms, plus tips for managing man-caves and she-sheds.

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Independence, Safety, Security, Comfort: Organizing to Age in Place

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Winds of Change: Organizing as a Tool for Self-reflection and Growth

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The Clutter Fairy examines how change impacts our relationship to stuff and explores how to leverage the organizing process as a means to accept and adapt to change.

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The Kid Zone: Organizing Playrooms and Children’s Bedrooms

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Trap Doors and Rabbit Holes: Special Issues of Clutter-Prone Spaces

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The Clutter Fairy explains why problematic spaces collect so much clutter and suggests strategies for trouble-shooting these special organizing issues.

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Winds of Change: Organizing as a Tool for Self-reflection and Growth

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Off to Work We Go! Assembling Your Organizing Toolkit

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The Clutter Fairy offers tips for assembling an organizing toolkit so you’ll be equipped to face almost any clutter challenge.

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Trap Doors and Rabbit Holes: Special Issues of Clutter-Prone Spaces

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Bulky Bags and Itty-bitty Bottles: Organizing for Vacation Travel

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The Clutter Fairy offers pointers for right-sizing your packing to prepare for stress-free vacation travel.

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Trap Doors and Rabbit Holes: Special Issues of Clutter-Prone Spaces

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Leader of the Unpack: Empty Your Boxes & Start Strong in a New Space

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Bulky Bags and Itty-bitty Bottles: Organizing for Vacation Travel

The Clutter Fairy offers strategies for unpacking a recent move (or the remnants of an old one) to optimize the use and enjoyment of your new space.