Black Friday or Buy Nothing Day: Consumerism, Clutter, and Choice

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Many of us love to shop, and stores and online retailers with stuff to sell know how to push our buttons to make the sale. But our spaces get out of balance when we bring home more than we’re using up, giving away, or discarding. In episode #233 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses the effects of consumerism on clutter and offers strategies for resisting the allure of consumerist influences to right-size your shopping practices.


The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Ask Us Anything: Short Topics and Viewer and Listener Questions

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In this week’s episode, we’ll continue answering the questions you’ve asked in our surveys, live chat, email, social media, and web site. We’re always ready to listen, and we’re eager to tackle the tough questions and issues that are giving you fits. In episode #232 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, answers viewer and listener questions and discusses short topics suggested by our audience on our surveys and through other channels.


The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Ask Us Anything: Short Topics and Viewer and Listener Questions

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It’s time once again for us to devote an episode to answering the questions you ask in our surveys, live chat, email, social media, and web site. We’re always ready to listen, and we’re eager to tackle the tough questions and issues that are giving you fits. In episode #231 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, answers viewer and listener questions and discusses short topics suggested by our audience on our surveys and through other channels.


The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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You Minus Your Stuff: Visualize and Create a Clutter-less Life

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Clutter is anything that stands between you and the life that you want to be living. What new things and experiences could you make room for in your home and your life if all the clutter was out of your way? In episode #230 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores how clutter interferes with our “best lives” and suggests strategies for gaining more clarity about and control over our stuff.

We prepared a survey to learn about our audience’s experiences related to this episode’s topic. To answer the survey, please see Survey #230: Clutter Versus Your Best Life.


The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Stories We Tell About Our Stuff: Organizing Myths versus Reality

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Many of us approach organizing projects with our heads full of myths, legends, and flat-out lies we’ve accumulated from popular TV shows, mass-market books, nagging parents, and other people’s limiting beliefs. In episode #229 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, uncovers the realities hiding behind popular myths, misconceptions, and limiting beliefs about decluttering and organizing our stuff.

We prepared a survey to learn about our audience’s experiences related to this episode’s topic. To answer the survey, please see Survey #229: Myths, Misconceptions, and Limiting Beliefs.


The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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A Roadmap for Downsizing: Planning for Your Smaller, Simpler Life

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Moving to a smaller home is a complex process that requires careful planning and tough decisions. But sooner or later, we all need to reduce our possessions, either to fit in a smaller space or so we can comfortably and safely age in place. In episode #228 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explains how to plan for a smaller living space and applies downsizing lessons to “right-sizing” the stuff in our cluttered homes.


The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast)—canceled for October 8, 2024

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We’re canceling The Clutter Fairy Weekly webcast for Tuesday, October 8, due to a scheduling conflict. We’ll be back for our next show on Tuesday, October 15!

We look forward to seeing everyone next week!

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Simplify, Relax, and Enjoy: Decluttering Your 2024 Holiday Season

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It’s October, so we’re about to embark on the season of food, shopping, celebration, and chaos that runs from now until the new year. This year, why not plan your holiday season to include only your most beloved treats and traditions? In episode #227 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers tips to streamline the season for yourself and your loved ones with simpler, more relaxing, less-cluttered approaches to holiday preparations.


The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Ask Us Anything: Helping Hands, Capsule Wardrobes, Digital Photos

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How can I help my cluttered friend with her excess stuff? What goes into a capsule wardrobe? What’s the best way to display digital photos? In episode #226 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, answers your questions about capsule wardrobe contents, sharing digital photos, and offering organizing help and covers other short topics suggested by our viewers and listeners.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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Planes, Trains, Automobiles…and Your House: Organizing Small Spaces

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Airplanes, ships, trains, hotel rooms, and other specialized spaces are designed to get the most efficient use out of limited space. Can we apply design elements of these tiny areas as we organize our own small spaces? In episode #225 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers tips and techniques for getting the most and best use out of your small spaces.

We prepared a survey to learn about our audience’s experiences related to this episode’s topic. To answer the survey, please see Survey #225: Clutter and Small Spaces.

The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.

Join the meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/993419863.

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