For our April meeting, we’ll dig into the core source of paper backlog: an impulse to collect that’s out of sync with our will and ability to process. We’ll explore ways to rethink and retool paper storage by defining “bigger buckets.” Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, facilitates the April 2016 monthly meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup.

Our February meetup presents a slate of small projects where you can score big decluttering wins. We’ll look at often-neglected areas of our homes and lives and offer pointers to get you moving forward by leaps and bounds.

Clutter can be both a symptom and a cause of our inability to let go of the past and move forward. At the January 2016 meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy, will examine how our stuff can anchor us to unproductive habits instead of supporting our ever-evolving lives. We’ll talk about how to “set an expiration date” on clutter to open up space for new possibilities in 2016.

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The September 2015 meeting of the Houston Clutter Coaching Meetup talked about how the lines between you and your stuff get blurred in the first place, and how to start seeing the boundaries clearly again.

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It’s easy to look at our own collections through filters of memory and nostalgia and to rationalize our attachments until our spaces are overflowing with the physical reminders of our pasts. Our August meetup will examine the rationalizations we use to hold on to things that we should logically let go. We’ll suggest an approach to decision-making that balances sentimental value with our real-world conditions of time, space, and resources.

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