The Clutter Fairy Weekly
The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips. To participate live in our weekly webcast, join our meetup group (cfhou.com/meetup), follow us on Facebook (cfhou.com/facebook), or subscribe to our mailing list (cfhou.com/subscribe). To help support our projects, visit our Patreon page (cfhou.com/patreon).
Episodes
287 episodes
Don’t Buy the Hype: Conscientious Shopping in the Holiday Season - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #283
As the holiday shopping season shifts into high gear, marketers use every trick they know to get us to buy, buy, buy. But we can resist the noise and pressure to overspend and add to clutter if we practice thoughtful, conscientious shopp...
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Season 6
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Episode 283
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57:37
Helping Hands: How to Ask for Decluttering Support (or Offer Yours) - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #282
The work of decluttering and organizing can be too overwhelming for one person to tackle. So we ask for help. But assistants who aren’t sensitive to our goals, priorities, and emotional needs can create as many problems as they solve. In...
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Season 6
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Episode 282
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1:01:01
Clear the Deck: Organize to Prepare for Injury, Illness, Disability - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #281
Sooner or later, most households will experience health or mobility issues of some kind. An injury, illness, or age-related loss of mobility will often exacerbate existing clutter problems. In episode #281 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly...
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Season 6
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Episode 281
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54:45
Being Grateful for What We Have (or Don’t): Gratitude and Clutter - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #280
It’s easy to get swept up and carried away by the excitement of the holiday season. But as we prepare for this busy time of family, fun, and celebration, let’s reflect on our feelings of gratitude and how they impact the way we accumulat...
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Season 6
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Episode 280
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59:16
Learn from the Past | Clutter on the Go | Default Capsule Wardrobes - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #279
What did we do differently at times in our lives when we were less cluttered? What’s good advice for staying organized and decluttered while traveling? Is it still a “capsule wardrobe” if you just happen to wear only a small number of it...
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Season 6
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Episode 279
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57:10
Service Solutions: When Doing All the Work Yourself Is Too Much - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #278
Decluttering and organizing is time-consuming, emotionally challenging, and sometimes physically demanding work. If you find that can’t get it all done yourself even with the help of family and friends, consider hiring service providers ...
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Season 6
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Episode 278
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59:10
Value Versus Values: How We Think About What Our Stuff Is Worth - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #277
Our perceptions of the value of our stuff can cloud our judgment about what really supports the life we want to be living—and what doesn’t. But a focus on our values helps us ground our decluttering decisions in a better underst...
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Season 6
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Episode 277
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1:02:26
Book Club: ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life (Kolberg/Nadeau) - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #276
People with ADHD often struggle to declutter and organize because of challenges with time management, planning, and executive function. ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life seeks to address these challenges with advice writte...
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Season 6
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Episode 276
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1:00:55
From Chaotic Hiding Place to Peaceful Retreat: The Primary Bedroom - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #275
The main bedroom should be a quiet, peaceful sanctuary where we recharge ourselves and enjoy intimate moments. But when clutter invades, visual distractions and mental noise can drain our energy and diminish the quality of our sleep. In ...
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Season 6
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Episode 275
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58:39
More ABCs of Clutter: Another Alphabet of Organizing Suggestions - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #274
Clutter insinuates itself into every part of our lives: our space, our time, our emotions, our relationships. From boxes moldering in the Attic to the Zester lurking in a kitchen drawer, we must examine our lives to discard the stuff we ...
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Season 6
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Episode 274
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56:04
Clutter Hacks: Five-minute Maintenance Habits to Make a Big Impact - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #273
Clearing clutter is really two jobs: reducing the backlog of accumulated stuff and cultivating habits to keep the mess from getting worse. The more effectively you handle ongoing maintenance, the more energy you’ll have to devote to the ...
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Season 6
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Episode 273
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56:29
Creative-output Clutter | Learning to Live in Decluttered Space - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #272
What are we supposed to do with art and craft projects after we’ve finished them? How can chronically cluttered people learn to be comfortable in a decluttered space? It’s time for another “Ask Us Anything” episode! In episode #272 of
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Season 6
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Episode 272
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1:00:59
Clutter-friendly Ways to Give, Receive, Downsize, and Regift Gifts - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #271
We often endow items we receive as gifts with a special status in our decluttering decision-making. But even gifts become clutter if we don’t love, need, or use them! In episode #271 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, p...
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Season 6
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Episode 271
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57:46
A Houseful of Limitless Potential: Clutter and the Creative Mind - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #270
Do your efforts to declutter conflict with your calling to live a brilliant, original, and creative life? For artists, craftspeople, and hobbyists, the stuff in our homes can stimulate our imaginations at the same time it stands in the w...
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Season 6
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Episode 270
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1:01:29
Partners in Clutter: Organizing With (or in Spite of) Other People - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #269
Other people can be valuable companions in our decluttering and organizing journeys, or they can interfere with our best efforts. We have to be careful and mindful about who gets a say in our decision-making. In episode #269 of The C...
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Season 6
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Episode 269
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1:02:41
Not Getting Any Younger: Age as a Factor in Clutter (continued) - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #268
The effects of aging can add significant challenges to the work of managing our clutter. But decluttering and organizing our spaces yields lots of benefits for older people, such as greater ease of movement, improved safety, and increase...
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Season 6
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Episode 268
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59:07
Not Getting Any Younger: Age as a Factor in Clutter and Organizing - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #267
The effects of aging can add significant challenges to the work of managing our clutter. But decluttering and organizing our spaces yields lots of benefits for older people, such as greater ease of movement, improved safety, and increase...
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Season 6
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Episode 267
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58:31
The Clutter Fairy’s Favorite Organizing Solutions and Products - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #266
You’ve done the tough work of decluttering, and now it’s time to organize the treasures you’ve decided to keep. If putting stuff away is the part of the project that trips you up, this week’s show is for you! In episode #266 of The C...
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Season 6
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Episode 266
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56:42
How We Define “Organized” | Answering Your Decluttering Naysayers - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #265
A viewer asked, “Can you define the term ‘organized’?” The dictionary definition leaves us a little cold, so we’ll suggest one that works better for our audience! We’ll also talk about how to respond to people who pooh-pooh your declutte...
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Season 6
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Episode 265
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58:39
Getting Honest With Yourself About What Works and What Doesn’t - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #264
Have you struggled with clutter for years, but keep feeling like you’re right back at square one? Maybe it’s time to take a critical look at the beliefs, assumptions, and routines that aren’t getting the job done. In episode #26...
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Season 6
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Episode 264
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55:06
The Home Office: Align Your Workspace with How You Really Work Now - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #263
New technologies and trends have transformed the way many of us work, but our home workspaces haven’t always kept up with the changes. One consequence is clutter that cuts into productivity and diminishes enjoyment of our homes. In episo...
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Season 6
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Episode 263
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1:04:38
Reality Checks: What We Learn About Ourselves as We Get Organized - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #262
The decluttering and organizing process is a journey of self-discovery. As we peel back the layers of our lives, we learn valuable lessons about who we are in relation to our stuff. In episode #262 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, G...
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Season 6
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Episode 262
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1:00:39
How to Organize and Store Cleaning Products, plus More Short Topics - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #261
How many cleaning supplies do we really need? How much is too much? And what’s the best way to organize and store cleaning products? In episode #261 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of...
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Season 6
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Episode 261
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1:01:43
When It’s Time for a Change, Downsize and Declutter Your Wardrobe - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #260
Does your wardrobe include clothes you’ve never even gotten around to wearing? The convenience of online shopping, the proliferation of fast fashion, and the temptation of “retail therapy” have helped us stuff our dressers and closets to...
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Season 6
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Episode 260
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59:17
Your Home Is Not a Museum: Making Tough Choices About Collections - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #259
Collections become clutter as soon as they outgrow our systems of organization, the space allotted to them, or our capacity to enjoy them. It takes a careful, thoughtful approach to store and display collections and to recognize when it’...
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Season 6
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Episode 259
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55:25
