The Clutter Fairy Weekly #174
Peace Process: Reducing Household Conflict, Confusion, and Clutter
Children, spouses, parents, roommates, housemates, and even unruly houseguests can muddle or add complexity to our organizing challenges. In episode #174 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores these complicating factors and suggests ways to improve communication, negotiation, and cooperation to decrease household conflict and clutter.
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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.
Many Hands Make Light Work
This week’s assignment is to engage another member of your family or household in an organizing task or project. As you discuss the task or area in question, set aside judgment, blame, and any history you may have with the project. Focus instead on things on which you can agree and on constructive ways to move forward, such as:
- improving your communication about stuff, how you use your home, and your shared roles in caring for this particular space
- learning more about and accommodating one another’s different organizing styles, tastes, and habits
- clearly communicating your needs and desires related to clutter and organizing to the family member or housemate in question
- negotiating specific solutions to address the most troubling areas—the things that bother each of you the most.
For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.
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