The Clutter Fairy Weekly #173
Reimagine Your Space to Break Free from the Clutter Status Quo
Sometimes we get stuck in our patterns and habits and can’t imagine things being any different. The longer your space has remained unchanged, the more permanent the arrangement seems to be. But the power to effect change is in your hands! In episode #173 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, suggests shaking up your “clutter status quo” and offers strategies for reimagining your space to make progress on decluttering and organizing.
Watch on YouTube
Listen to the Podcast
Click the Share button to share the podcast, download an MP3 file, or subscribe through your favorite podcast platform.
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.
Shake It Up!
This week’s assignment is to disrupt the status quo for a space in your home:
- Identify a space in the house that was set up to serve a function that’s no longer needed, like a playroom for your long-grown kids or a closet full of the clothes you stopped wearing when you retired.
- Pull all of the contents out of the space. Move anything you want to keep—such as items that never belonged there in the first place—to a more appropriate storage location.
- Sort the rest of the contents for gifting, donation, recycling, or disposal.
- Take advantage of this opportunity to give the space a thorough cleaning while it’s empty.
- Now comes the fun part: Imagine a new use for this space. Start by thinking about activities and purposes for which you don’t currently have enough room. Don’t forget to involve other members of the household in this process!
For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.
I have recently retired and have decided to reimagine my office into my craft room. I have finally come to the need to downsize my paper files. Years old. Am wondering if I should tackle the file cabinet first before tackling the boxes and binders of stored files or start with the boxes and binders first? I have saved way too many documents.