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The Clutter Fairy Weekly

Gayle Goddard and Ed Gumnick

282 episodes

1 day ago

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 to assist with the toughest chores. In episode #278 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores services you can contract to help lighten the burden of decluttering work. Show n...

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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 to assist with the toughest chores. In episode #278 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores services you can contract to help lighten the burden of decluttering work. Show n...

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Self-Improvement

Episodes (20/282)

The Clutter Fairy Weekly

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 to assist with the toughest chores. In episode #278 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores services you can contract to help lighten the burden of decluttering work. Show n...

4 days ago

59 minutes

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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 understanding of ourselves. In episode #277 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores value-based patterns of thinking that lead to clutter and offers strategies for re-evaluating what we real...

1 week ago

1 hour 2 minutes

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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 written specifically for an ADHD audience. In episode #276 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, reviews ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life and discusses lessons we can take from this organiz...

2 weeks ago

1 hour

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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 episode #275 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers strategies for transforming your primary bedroom from a stress-inducing mess into a tranquil refuge. Show notes: https://...

3 weeks ago

58 minutes

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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 no longer need, love, or use. In episode #274 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, we set ourselves another alphabet challenge: to identify and discuss an organizing concept, issue...

1 month ago

56 minutes

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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 backlog project. In episode #273 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, suggests a dozen five-minute maintenance tasks as the foundation for a clutter-prevention workflow. Show note...

1 month ago

56 minutes

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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 The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, answers viewer and listener questions and discusses short topics suggested by our audience in our surveys and social-media channels. Show notes: ht...

1 month ago

1 hour

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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, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores the complex issues of decluttering gifts and offers clutter-conscious approaches to giving, receiving, downsizing, and regifting gifts. Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw271 The Clutter F...

1 month ago

57 minutes

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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 way of our freedom to create. In episode #270 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores how our stuff can both inspire and stifle creativity and offers strategies for making spa...

1 month ago

1 hour 1 minute

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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 Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses people who influence our organizing process and offers strategies for working with—or around—those whose choices impact the clutter in our lives....

2 months ago

1 hour 2 minutes

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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 increased mental clarity. In episode #268 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, continues our discussion of ways in which aging complicates our organizing efforts and the many benefits of r...

2 months ago

59 minutes

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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 increased mental clarity. In episode #267 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores ways in which aging complicates our organizing efforts and the many benefits of reducing our stuff t...

2 months ago

58 minutes

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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 Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses how to corral your collections with a few of our favorite products and creative organizing solutions. Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw266 The ...

2 months ago

56 minutes

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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 decluttering efforts. In episode #265 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, answers viewer and listener questions and discusses short topics suggested by our audience in our surveys and soc...

3 months ago

58 minutes

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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 #264 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines habits of thought and practice that keep us stuck in clutter and suggests strategies for bringing radically honest change to the work of decl...

3 months ago

55 minutes

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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 episode #263 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses factors that contribute to home office space clutter and offers strategies for aligning these spaces with the way we work tod...

3 months ago

1 hour 4 minutes

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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, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, shares the reality checks and “Aha!” moments our clients and audience members have experienced as they work to declutter and organize. Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw262 The Clut...

3 months ago

1 hour

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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 The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers strategies and best practices for organizing and storing cleaning products—plus other short topics suggested by our audience. Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw261 The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podcast desi...

4 months ago

1 hour 1 minute

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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 overflowing. In episode #260 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses how to align your wardrobe with your current style—and lifestyle—and offers strategies to make your clo...

4 months ago

59 minutes

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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’s time to cut back. In episode #259 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses collections—how they accumulate, why they get out of control, and what you can do to rein them in...

4 months ago

55 minutes