Videos

For our complete video collection, visit our YouTube channel!

Jack-o’-lanterns, candles and autumn decorations

Smiling Faces and Warm Wishes: Decluttering the Holiday Season

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The Clutter Fairy offers ideas to streamline the holidays for your family with simpler, less stressful, less-cluttered approaches to holiday preparations.

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Deep-Storage “Solutions”—Why Forgotten Is Not the Same as Gone

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Get Your Motor Running: Is Decluttering a Journey—or a Destination?

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The Clutter Fairy talks traveling light, planning your route (or relying on serendipity), and enjoying the decluttering journey as well as the destination.

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Smiling Faces and Warm Wishes: Decluttering the Holiday Season

Donation box full of clothing ready to donate

Keep the Clutter, or Give it Away? Value, Gifting, and Donation

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The Clutter Fairy discusses gifting, donation, and how our notions of value impact our decision-making about what we keep and what we’re willing to let go.

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Get Your Motor Running: Is Decluttering a Journey—or a Destination?

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Yours, Mine, Ours: Sharing or Delegating Responsibility for Clutter

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The Clutter Fairy discusses how to manage and share responsibility for clutter among interested parties with clear communication and gentle negotiation.

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Keep the Clutter, or Give it Away? Value, Gifting, and Donation

Ivy vines on lavender wall

Feeling, Meaning, Value: Untangling Emotional Attachment to Stuff

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The Clutter Fairy scrutinizes sentimental clutter and offers tips for balancing emotional attachment with real limitations of time, space, and resources.

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Yours, Mine, Ours: Sharing or Delegating Responsibility for Clutter

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Are We Ever Finished Decluttering? Organizing With No End in Sight

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The Clutter Fairy ponders the question of whether we’re ever finished decluttering and offers tips for setting goals that keep you engaged and motivated.

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Feeling, Meaning, Value: Untangling Emotional Attachment to Stuff

View of the end of a bundle of colored pencils

Sharpen Your Tools: How to Organize for Arts, Crafts, and Hobbies

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The Clutter Fairy examines stuff that accumulates from hobbies, arts, and crafts and offers strategies for keeping “crafty clutter” from spoiling our fun.

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We’re taking next week off, but we’ll be back for our next episode on September 26. Watch you email for an announcement of the topic.
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Uncut sapphires

A Hard Bargain: More of Your Most Difficult Organizing Challenges

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The Clutter Fairy explores more factors that make organizing projects and tasks difficult and suggests strategies to help you face those challenges.

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Sharpen Your Tools: How to Organize for Arts, Crafts, and Hobbies

White diamonds

A Rock and a Hard Place: Facing Difficult Organizing Challenges

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The Clutter Fairy explores factors that make the hardest organizing projects and tasks so difficult and offers strategies to help you face those challenges.

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A Hard Bargain: More of Your Most Difficult Organizing Challenges

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Ask Us Anything: Viewer and Listener Questions and Orphan Topics

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The Clutter Fairy answers viewer and listener questions and discusses short topics suggested by our audience in response to past surveys.

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A Rock and a Hard Place: Facing Difficult Organizing Challenges

Sandy beach at high tide

Stem the Tide: Tips to Prevent or Reduce Clutter at its Sources

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The Clutter Fairy examines clutter “origin stories” and suggests simple and subtle behavioral changes that can make a big difference in your clutter landscape.

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Ask Us Anything: Viewer and Listener Questions and Orphan Topics

Ripe apples on tree

Low-hanging Fruit: Easy Wins to Start or Restart Your Decluttering

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The Clutter Fairy offers a few simple criteria for assessing your stuff and suggests easy starting places to “thin the herd.”

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Stem the Tide: Tips to Prevent or Reduce Clutter at its Sources

Dangerous tangle of electrical cords

Clutter Dangers: Organize for Safety, Mobility, and Ease of Access

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The Clutter Fairy uncovers the dangers lurking in our clutter and offers tips for optimizing space for safety, mobility, health, and ease of access.

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Low-hanging Fruit: Easy Wins to Start or Restart Your Decluttering

Radically unstuffed space (a stool and a houseplant in an otherwise bare room with a lavender brick wall and white plank flooring)

Clutter and Recidivism: How to Avoid Re-stuffing Unstuffed Areas

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The Clutter Fairy examines ingrained behaviors of “clutter recidivists” and suggests strategies for breaking patterns that lead back to clutter.

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Clutter Dangers: Organize for Safety, Mobility, and Ease of Access

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Peace Process: Reducing Household Conflict, Confusion, and Clutter

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The Clutter Fairy explores how other people complicate our organizing and offers tips to improve communication, negotiation, and cooperation about clutter.

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Clutter and Recidivism: How to Avoid Re-stuffing Unstuffed Areas