The Clutter Fairy Weekly #64

Moving Stories: Plans and Preparations for the Peak Season of Moves

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If we don’t plan and prepare carefully for moving or even temporary relocation, we waste time and money and make the project harder than it has to be. In episode #64 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers strategies for planning and preparing for a successful move or a major home renovation project.

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Weekly Tittle

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.

Clean up the Command Post

Everyone has a favorite place to sit when you’re at home and at leisure. You open the mail there, maybe watch TV from there. You read books or magazines and the pets hang out with you there. This place is what Gayle’s Dad calls the “Command Post.” For Dad, it’s a recliner in front of the TV with a lamp, a trash can, a side table with a baseball cap, the remotes, a kitchen towel, Kleenex—you get the picture. Most of us have such a space, with a circle of stuff surrounding you as you relax in the center.

This week’s assignment is to deconstruct and freshen up that area:

  • Pull out all the stuff and make sure that it needs to be there. For anything that doesn’t, put it away in the appropriate place.
  • Throw out any stashed old reading material, old meds, and hidden trash.
  • Add a trash can nearby if you don’t already have one there. If the trash can that’s there tends to fill up too quickly, replace it with a larger one.

For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.

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