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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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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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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.

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.

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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Clear Your Clutter, Love Your Life: Organize for Positive Change

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The Clutter Fairy suggests how the decluttering process can serve as a release from bad feelings and a trigger for brightening your emotional landscape.
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Just What IS Clutter, Anyway?

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The Clutter Fairy explores the many criteria by which we may identify and categorize clutter for ourselves and the people with whom we share our spaces.