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Texas Winter Storm Report | Viewer Comments and Questions

The Clutter Fairy reports on the winter storm that paralyzed Texas last week and responds to comments and questions from our audience.
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Stop Juggling and Start Organizing: Setting Project Priorities

The Clutter Fairy discusses setting priorities, one of the key skills for an aspiring “organizing acrobat.”
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No Loss of Enthusiasm: Build Motivation for Your Organizing Projects

The Clutter Fairy offers strategies for finding—or recovering—the motivation to keep your organizing projects and resolutions going strong.
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Clutter to Catastrophe: More Organizing for Safety and Ease of Access

The Clutter Fairy asks questions that uncover where clutter danger lurks in our homes and offers strategies to improve access and regain peace of mind.
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A Matter of Style: Organizing from a Variety of Perspectives

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The Clutter Fairy discusses a variety of organizing styles and offers suggestions for identifying a decluttering workflow that fits your strengths and needs.
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Nests, Empty or Otherwise: Reclaiming and Surrendering Space

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The Clutter Fairy discusses the challenges of finding ourselves with an “empty nest”—and of children or elderly parents moving back into our spaces.
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Child’s Play and Adult Joy: Organizing Your Recipes and Cookbooks

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The Clutter Fairy offers strategies for filtering and organizing your saved recipes and introduces a new “homework assignment” segment—and a contest!
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Countdown to 2021: 10 Tips to Wrap Up Your Decluttering Year

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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.
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Season’s Greetings! Self-care Tips for the Holiday Season

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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!
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Make Space for the Life You Love: Setting Organizing Goals for 2021

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The Clutter Fairy explains how to leverage clutter challenges as the inspiration and starting point for setting goals and planning organizing projects.
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Guilt-free Task Management: Make Your To-do List Work for You

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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.
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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.
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A Kind, Forgiving, Charitable, Pleasant Time: Declutter Via Donation

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The Clutter Fairy suggests ways to lighten the clutter load during the giving season through donations to friends, family, neighbors, and charitable causes.
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Stop the Fire Hose! Prevent Clutter at the Source

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The Clutter Fairy suggests simple and subtle habit changes that will make a big difference in your clutter landscape.
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Decluttering Before a Move and More Tips from Porch.com

The Clutter Fairy’s tips for decluttering before a move were included in a helpful home-organizing article at Porch.com. Thanks to Rocia Espinoza for including my ideas!
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Expert Tips on Organizing the Home from Redfin Blog

The Clutter Fairy’s advice on craft room organizing was included along with tips from 11 other NAPO colleagues in a Redfin blog article about organizing your home! Read Organize Your Home Like Never Before With These 12 Tips.
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Embrace Your Reason for the Season: Decluttering Holiday Preparations

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The Clutter Fairy suggests lightening your load and brightening your life by focusing holiday preparations on what the season means to you.
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Holding On and Letting Go: Ownership, Gift-Giving, and Value

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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.
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Money, Money, Money: The Problem with Monetary Value

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The Clutter Fairy discusses definitions of value and factors that complicate our thinking about monetary value as it relates to the decluttering process.
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Looking Through Rose-colored Glasses: Sentimentality and Clutter

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The Clutter Fairy examines the rationalizations we use to hold on to things and suggests an approach to decision-making that balances sentimental value with our real-world conditions of time, space, and resources.
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