Race Against the Clock: Time Issues and Organizing

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To those of us who struggle with clutter, it can feel as if Time itself is our one insurmountable obstacle. As we work to declutter our lives and spaces, we have difficulty balancing and allocating our time—and there’s never quite enough. In episode #119 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses procrastination, estimating time for big projects, budgeting time for maintenance, and other areas where organizing intersects our perception and management of time.

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Routine Maintenance: Keep Your Organizing Machine Running Smoothly

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Whether you’re managing a long-term clutter issue or starting fresh in a new space, a critical part of designing your organized life is maintenance. Well-designed habits can stop a tough situation from getting worse or keep an organized space in tip-top shape. In episode #118 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores the hows and whys of powerful maintenance habits to stem clutter before it starts.

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Tight Spots, Tiny Budgets: Outfitting Dorm Rooms and Apartments

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Graduation season is about to start, and parents everywhere will be scrambling to launch their graduates into college life, often with little cash and strict space limitations. Even if college isn’t in the plans, your kids may need help establishing a space of their own. In episode #117 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers low-cost, space-saving suggestions for organizing starter apartments, dorm rooms, and other compact spaces.

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The Clutter Fairy Weekly (webcast)

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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.

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Decluttering with Bigfoot: Organizing Myths versus Reality

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Some of us approach organizing projects with our heads stuffed full of myths, legends, and baldfaced lies that we’ve heard—the product of popular TV shows, mass-market books, nagging parents, and other people’s confusion. In episode #116 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, uncovers the realities hiding behind some of these popular misconceptions about decluttering your stuff.

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The Power of Words: Understand and Reframe Your Clutter Language

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How we talk about our stuff reveals a lot about the emotions and memories that influence our choices. Words like enough, junk, and value are loaded with history and meaning for each of us, but they also possess power to keep us stuck or move us forward. In episode #115 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines words that we use to describe our cluttered lives and shares insights into how to reframe language to clarify our relationship with stuff.

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Organize for the Unplanned: Prepare for Crises Before They Arrive

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As life unfolds, we may find ourselves in circumstances that require us to deal with a lot of stuff in a short time: an unexpected move, an illness, a death or disaster. You can’t prevent these crises, but there are steps you can take to help your loved ones or yourself manage better when trouble turns up. In episode #114 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses how to plan and prepare to minimize the impact of clutter emergencies.

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Spring into Decluttering: 20 Tiny Projects to Start Moving Forward

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Spring in the northern hemisphere is finally here, bringing warmer days, more sunlight, and a burst of fresh energy. Let’s take advantage of an early-spring day to “spring forward” on a few household organizing tasks. In episode #113 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, looks at often-neglected corners of our lives and shares a list of simple tasks where you can score big decluttering wins.

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Decluttering Your Home’s Hiding Places

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Many of our homes contain black holes that are easy to pack with clutter and even easier to ignore—spare closets, basements, attics, crawlspaces, the cabinets under sinks, etc. In episode #112 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, unpacks the mysteries of hidden spaces and offers strategies for keeping them in our awareness and under control.

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Because You’re Worth It: Decluttering as Self-care

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Cluttered space impacts and complicates every other aspect of our lives—our physical fitness, emotional health, productivity, family, financial wellbeing, happiness, sense of satisfaction, you name it. In episode #111 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, reframes decluttering as a form of self-care and offers tips for supporting your most important organizing helper: you.

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