The Clutter Fairy Blog

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Survey #201: Love in the Time of Clutter

How does clutter affect relationships? What objects evoke strong memories of people? And what is Valentine’s Day all about? We’d like your opinions! Take the survey.
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Why We Procrastinate and What We’re Planning to Do About It…Later

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The Clutter Fairy explores procrastination and avoidance behavior and suggests tips and techniques for breaking an unproductive cycle.

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Love Me, Love My Clutter: Organizing Styles and Relationships

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Just Right: Keeping Decor from Exacerbating Your Clutter Problem

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The Clutter Fairy examines ways that decor can lead to clutter and suggests strategies for right-sizing your decorative choices.

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Why We Procrastinate and What We’re Planning to Do About It…Later

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Good Questions: What to Ask Yourself as You Evaluate Your Stuff

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The Clutter Fairy explores the power of questions to unpack clutter issues and suggests queries that can get to the heart of our toughest challenges.

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Just Right: Keeping Decor from Exacerbating Your Clutter Problem

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A Game You Can Win: Using Gamification in Your Organizing Process

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The Clutter Fairy explores the pros and cons of gamifying your organizing process and suggests ways to set yourself up to win big.

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Join us January 23, 2024:
Good Questions: What to Ask Yourself as You Evaluate Your Stuff

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Three Strategies to Kick Off Your Best Organizing Year Yet in 2024

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The Clutter Fairy pledges to support and encourage our community in making 2024 your best decluttering and organizing year yet!

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Join us January 9, 2024:
A Game You Can Win: Using Gamification in Your Organizing Process

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Happy Holidays from The Clutter Fairy Family to You and Yours!

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The Clutter Fairy thanks our clients, patrons, viewers, and listeners for your generous support and wishes you a joyous and peaceful holiday season!

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Join us January 9, 2024:
The Clutter Fairy Weekly: First 2024 topic to be announced soon!

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Ask Us Anything: More Viewer/Listener Questions and Short Topics

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The Clutter Fairy is back with more viewer and listener questions and short topics suggested by our audience in our surveys and through our other channels.

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Balancing Functionality and Aesthetics in the Organizing Process

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We’re Listening: The Clutter Fairy Answers Your Survey Questions

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

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Ask Us Anything: More Viewer/Listener Questions and Short Topics

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Plan Ahead: Hit the Reset Button for You and Your Space in 2024

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The Clutter Fairy discusses hitting reset on organizing projects, pros and cons of resolutions, and tips for planning a successful “Get Organized Month.”

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We’re Listening: The Clutter Fairy Answers Your Survey Questions

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Survey #191 Results: Looking Ahead to 2024

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The results are coming in! View the responses to Survey #191: Looking Ahead to 2024.
Road stretching into the distance, road sign reads "[arrow forward] 2024"

Survey #191: Looking Ahead to 2024

Do you make resolutions? Do you keep them? What change would you like to make happen in 2024? We’d like your opinions! Take the survey.
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Thin the Herd: A Clutter Fairy Guide to Talking About Organizing

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The Clutter Fairy presents a primer of beloved Gayle-isms and lots of other useful phrases that help us keep focus in our organizing and decluttering work.

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Plan Ahead: Hit the Reset Button for You and Your Space in 2024

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Deep-Storage “Solutions”: Why Forgotten Is Not the Same as Gone

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The Clutter Fairy discusses the problems with out-of-sight, out-of-mind caches and unpacks ways to get the deep-storage monkey off your back.

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Thin the Herd: A Clutter Fairy Guide to Talking About Organizing

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Smiling Faces and Warm Wishes: Decluttering the Holiday Season

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The Clutter Fairy offers ideas to streamline the holidays for your family with simpler, less stressful, less-cluttered approaches to holiday preparations.

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Deep-Storage “Solutions”—Why Forgotten Is Not the Same as Gone

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Survey #188 Results: Decluttering Your Holiday Season

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The results are coming in! View the responses to Survey #188: Decluttering Your Holiday Season.
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Survey #188: Decluttering Your Holiday Season

We’ve prepared a survey to learn more our audience’s experiences with topics related to episode #188 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly.
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Get Your Motor Running: Is Decluttering a Journey—or a Destination?

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The Clutter Fairy talks traveling light, planning your route (or relying on serendipity), and enjoying the decluttering journey as well as the destination.

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Smiling Faces and Warm Wishes: Decluttering the Holiday Season

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Keep the Clutter, or Give it Away? Value, Gifting, and Donation

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The Clutter Fairy discusses gifting, donation, and how our notions of value impact our decision-making about what we keep and what we’re willing to let go.

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Get Your Motor Running: Is Decluttering a Journey—or a Destination?

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Survey #186 Results: Decluttering by Gifting and Donation

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The results are coming in! View the responses to Survey #186: Decluttering by Gifting and Donation.