The Clutter Fairy Weekly #95
Form, Function, and Feeling: Creating a Vision for Your Tidy Home (Part 1 of 2)
Our homes tend to fill up with the artifacts and debris of our busy lives as much as by conscious choices that we’ve made, so they can come to represent a distorted view of our lives and our tastes. In episode #95 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, suggests designing a vision for your home to guide your decluttering efforts and to reflect a truer picture of who you are and what you love.
This episode is Part I of a two-part series. See Part II.
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The Weekly Tittle is an exercise designed to focus your attention on a specific space, aspect, or challenge of decluttering and organizing your home. We assign a new tittle in each webcast/podcast, then check on your progress the following week.
Creating a Vision, Part I
This week’s assignment is to identify key elements that will shape and support your process of crafting a vision for your home:
- Start an inventory of the objects or collections that you consider non-negotiable.
- Make a list of the stakeholders who share responsibility for decision-making and maintenance of your space.
- Make a list of the functions and purposes that you need your home to serve, including any that aren’t currently being met.
- Begin identifying items and past choices that feel out of sync with who you are and how you want to live.
For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.
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I listened to the Nov 16 podcast this morning. I am in the midst of downsizing from a 4 bedroom house with a full basement and garage to a 2 bedroom apartment. It is daunting. But when I listened to Gayle talking about creating a space that is supporting my vision and is forward-looking, I realized I had been planning to pack pictures that had spent the last 18 years (2 homes) in boxes. I put 5 pictures in the donate box and my daughter wants 3 more from our trip to Paris. I’m sure I’ll still be downsizing once I’m in the apartment but today I eliminated one box!