The Clutter Fairy Weekly
By: Gayle Goddard and Ed Gumnick
Language: en-us
Categories: Education, Self Improvement, Leisure, Home, Garden
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 (cfho...
Episodes
Looking Back to Move Forward: Your Organizing Year in Review - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #288
Jan 08, 2026What did you learn about yourself and your stuff through your decluttering efforts in 2025? What lessons will you take forward into your organizing work in the new year? In episode #288 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, guides us through a decluttering and organizing review of 2025 and suggests ways for our audience to continue their growth, learning, and success in 2026.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw288
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Duration: 01:02:07Commitments You’ll Love to Keep: Reframe New Year’s Resolutions - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #287
Dec 30, 2025As New Year’s Eve approaches, we spend moments of self-reflection and inspiration coming up with ambitious goals for next year. We set them…and then get distracted and leave them by the curb. In special episode #287 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explains reasons that New Year’s resolutions fail more often than they succeed and suggests more effective ways to frame the changes you want to make in your life.
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Season’s Greetings from The Clutter Fairy Family to You and Yours! - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #286
Dec 23, 2025Season’s greetings from The Clutter Fairy family to you and yours! In special episode #286 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, thanks our clients, patrons, friends, family, viewers, and listeners for your generous support this year and wishes you a joyous and peaceful holiday season filled with all that your heart desires!
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Celebrate Wins | Set Boundaries on Stuff | Declutter Subscriptions - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #285
Dec 18, 2025What are your favorite ways to celebrate decluttering wins? What boundaries does the Clutter Fairy set on her own stuff? How do we declutter our subscriptions? In episode #285 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, answers these and other viewer and listener questions and discusses short topics suggested by our audience in our surveys and social-media channels.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw285
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Duration: 01:04:03A Matter of Taste: Declutter Decor to Fit Your Evolving Style - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #284
Dec 11, 2025Some of us collect art and decor for our homes as if we’re curating a museum, never discarding any precious object that ever caught our fancy for a moment. But decorative items that are out of step with our current taste and style easily turn to clutter. In episode #284 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, identifies behaviors that lead to decor clutter and suggests strategies to streamline the stuff that gives your space its one-of-a-kind look.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw284
Don’t Buy the Hype: Conscientious Shopping in the Holiday Season - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #283
Dec 05, 2025As 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 shopping habits. In episode #283 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines the perils of shopping in the holiday season and suggests strategies for sticking to our lists and our budgets.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw283
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Duration: 00:57:37Helping Hands: How to Ask for Decluttering Support (or Offer Yours) - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #282
Nov 26, 2025The 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 episode #282 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, gives advice on asking for help with your decluttering projects or offering your support or assistance to others who need it.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw282
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Duration: 01:01:01Clear the Deck: Organize to Prepare for Injury, Illness, Disability - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #281
Nov 21, 2025Sooner 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, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores steps we can take to plan ahead for changes and accommodations that injury, illness, or disability can necessitate in our homes.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw281
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Duration: 00:54:45Being Grateful for What We Have (or Don’t): Gratitude and Clutter - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #280
Nov 15, 2025It’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 accumulate, manage, and dispose of our stuff. In episode #280 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines the role of gratitude in our decision-making and in the work of decluttering and organizing.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw280
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Duration: 00:59:16Learn from the Past | Clutter on the Go | Default Capsule Wardrobes - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #279
Nov 08, 2025What 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 items? In episode #279 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, reflects on what we can learn from our less-cluttered past and takes up other short topics suggested by our audience.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw279
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Duration: 00:57:10Service Solutions: When Doing All the Work Yourself Is Too Much - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #278
Oct 30, 2025Decluttering 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 notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw278
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Duration: 00:59:10Value Versus Values: How We Think About What Our Stuff Is Worth - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #277
Oct 26, 2025Our 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 really want.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw277
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Duration: 01:02:26Book Club: ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life (Kolberg/Nadeau) - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #276
Oct 16, 2025People 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 organizing guide tailored to the needs of the ADD/ADHD community.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw276
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Duration: 01:00:55From Chaotic Hiding Place to Peaceful Retreat: The Primary Bedroom - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #275
Oct 08, 2025The 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://cfhou.com/tcfw275
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Duration: 00:58:39More ABCs of Clutter: Another Alphabet of Organizing Suggestions - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #274
Oct 03, 2025Clutter 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, or tip for every letter from A to Z.
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Clutter Hacks: Five-minute Maintenance Habits to Make a Big Impact - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #273
Sep 26, 2025Clearing 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 notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw273
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Duration: 00:56:29Creative-output Clutter | Learning to Live in Decluttered Space - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #272
Sep 20, 2025What 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: https://cfhou.com/tcfw272
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Duration: 01:00:59Clutter-friendly Ways to Give, Receive, Downsize, and Regift Gifts - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #271
Sep 13, 2025We 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
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Duration: 00:57:46A Houseful of Limitless Potential: Clutter and the Creative Mind - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #270
Sep 05, 2025Do 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 space to do your best creative work.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw270
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Duration: 01:01:29Partners in Clutter: Organizing With (or in Spite of) Other People - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #269
Aug 29, 2025Other 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.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw269
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Duration: 01:02:41Not Getting Any Younger: Age as a Factor in Clutter (continued) - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #268
Aug 23, 2025The 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 reducing our stuff to stay ahead of the aging curve.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw268
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Duration: 00:59:07Not Getting Any Younger: Age as a Factor in Clutter and Organizing - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #267
Aug 17, 2025The 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 to stay ahead of the aging curve.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw267
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Duration: 00:58:31The Clutter Fairy’s Favorite Organizing Solutions and Products - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #266
Aug 08, 2025You’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
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Duration: 00:56:42How We Define “Organized” | Answering Your Decluttering Naysayers - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #265
Aug 03, 2025A 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 social-media channels.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw265
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Duration: 00:58:39Getting Honest With Yourself About What Works and What Doesn’t - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #264
Jul 28, 2025Have 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 decluttering and organizing.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw264
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Duration: 00:55:06The Home Office: Align Your Workspace with How You Really Work Now - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #263
Jul 20, 2025New 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 today.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw263
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Duration: 01:04:38Reality Checks: What We Learn About Ourselves as We Get Organized - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #262
Jul 13, 2025The 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
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Duration: 01:00:39How to Organize and Store Cleaning Products, plus More Short Topics - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #261
Jul 03, 2025How 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
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Duration: 01:01:43When It’s Time for a Change, Downsize and Declutter Your Wardrobe - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #260
Jun 28, 2025Does 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 closets more useful and manageable.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw260
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Duration: 00:59:17Your Home Is Not a Museum: Making Tough Choices About Collections - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #259
Jun 20, 2025Collections 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 when the need arises.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw259
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Duration: 00:55:25Book Club: Decluttering at the Speed of Life (Dana K. White) - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #258
Jun 08, 2025Dana K. White’s Decluttering at the Speed of Life is a real-world guide to making steady progress in decluttering your home. The book features a container-based approach to decision-making and a five-step process for reducing clutter in any area of the home. In episode #258 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, reviews Decluttering at the Speed of Life and discusses practical lessons we can learn from this entertaining, accessible decluttering guide.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw258
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Duration: 01:01:31Yours, Mine, Ours: Seeking Clarity in Our Cluttered Relationships - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #257
May 28, 2025Clutter can interfere with our relationships, and complex relationships can make it harder to face our clutter. Managing our own stuff while navigating other people’s attitudes about our stuff—and theirs—requires patience, compassion, and understanding on all sides. In episode #257 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines the impact of clutter on relationships over time and offers strategies for bringing greater clarity and peace to our homes.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw257
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Duration: 01:05:24New and Improved: Declutter to Streamline Your Renovation Project - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #256
May 23, 2025Renovating a cluttered space is like trying to cook in a messy kitchen. You might be able to make it work, but you’ll spend more time, money, and effort to get the results you want. In episode #256 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores how clutter complicates home renovation and DIY projects and offers strategies to set yourself up for success in your home reboot.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw256
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Duration: 00:55:25The Best Part of Moving | Decluttering Regret | Fixing No-go Zones - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #255
May 14, 2025Moving is a big hassle, but are there also good parts? How do we deal with regret over things that we've discarded? How can we make spaces in our homes that we tend to avoid more inviting? In episode #255 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: https://cfhou.com/tcfw255
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Duration: 00:58:44Positive Psychology for Clearing Clutter from Your Home and Head - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #254
May 08, 2025Decluttering can yield many psychological benefits, such as reduced stress and anxiety and a greater sense of calm. These gains can in turn make the work of decluttering and organizing more effective and rewarding. In episode #254 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, suggests ways to apply principles of positive psychology to clarify and energize our decluttering efforts.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw254
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Duration: 00:57:07Dining Rooms: Traditional, Multifunctional, or Gone Out of Style? - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #253
May 03, 2025Contemporary home design has moved away from dining rooms in favor of open plans, great rooms, breakfast nooks, and other concepts. But some of us still live with formal dining rooms—or at least the furniture that went with them. In episode #253 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores the changing role of dining rooms and how families incorporate dining-room functionality in modern homes and lifestyles.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw253
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Duration: 00:55:40Work with a Professional Organizer…or Organize Like You’re a Pro - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #252
Apr 25, 2025Working with a professional organizer can help you take the fast lane to functional, clutter-free spaces. But even if you can’t hire an organizer, you can handle your decluttering and organizing projects with a professional’s care, creativity, and attention to detail. In episode #252 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses the process of working with a professional organizer and how you can apply a professional approach to managing your own projects.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw252
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Duration: 01:00:28Balancing Act: Managing Your Decluttering Projects and Priorities - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #251
Apr 04, 2025Not all decluttering and organizing tasks are created equal. Some projects give us a fresh look at our cherished belongings; others are just plain chores. But they all need to get done. In episode #251 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, suggests ways to leverage your strengths and minimize negative feelings as you strive for balance in decluttering project priorities.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw251
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Duration: 01:02:51Children’s Artwork | Attractive Storage | Turning Into Your Mother - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #250
Mar 25, 2025Children’s artwork—how much is too much to keep? Can you help with more appealing decorative storage solutions? Do I have to worry about turning into my mother? In episode #250 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers guidance on how much kids’ artwork to keep and answers more questions from our viewers and listeners.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw250
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Duration: 00:23:12Give Stuff Away Through Creative Donation, plus More Short Topics - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #249
Mar 21, 2025We’ve talked a lot about the usual donation destinations—charity stores, creative-reuse centers, the curb, etc.—but what about unusual ideas for donation? We want to hear our audience’s favorite suggestions and share a few of our own. In episode #249 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses unconventional places to take donated items—plus other short topics suggested by our audience.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw249
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Duration: 01:02:52Book Club: Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism (Sasaki) - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #248
Mar 13, 2025In Goodbye, Things, author Fumio Sasaki shares his personal story of becoming a minimalist. The book also offers lots of tips for saying goodbye to stuff and explores the results of Sasaki’s profound change in lifestyle. In episode #248 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, reviews Goodbye, Things and discusses the lessons we can take from this popular book about a minimalist approach to decluttering.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw248
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Duration: 01:03:24Paper Problems: Pile-purging Practices for Productivity and Peace - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #247
Mar 07, 2025It’s time once again to parse the particular problems that paper poses. We’ll examine the habits and beliefs that lead to heaps, folders, boxes, bags, bins, and drawers full of bills, receipts, records, recipes, clippings, statements, magazines, and more. In episode #247 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses the reasons we keep more paper than we need and offers pointers for purging your personal paper piles.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw247
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Pr... Duration: 00:58:46Gayle Unscripted: What Do We Really Need? and Other Questions - The Clutter Fairy Weekly EXTRA
Feb 26, 2025Her co-host was out sick, so Gayle bravely wrangled the show all by herself with only her native wit and magic wand for support! In this special episode of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, answers audience questions about the nature of “need,” shopping, keepsakes, estate and auction sales, breaking down large projects, and procrastination.
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Duration: 00:57:22Excavate the Welcome Mat: Declutter and Organize for Entertaining - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #246
Feb 20, 2025The desire to open our homes to family and friends is a fundamental human need. But clutter-impaired people often let shame, fear of judgment, and the physical condition of their homes stand in the way of the fun and fulfillment of entertaining. In episode #246 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, talks about what guests need from us and suggests ways to start entertaining even if your space is still a work in progress.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw246
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Duration: 00:59:17Significant Others: Decluttering with (or in Spite of) Other People - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #245
Feb 12, 2025Do the people with whom you share your space complicate your decluttering process? Living companions with conflicting household habits and routines can sabotage our efforts to get organized. And sometimes even those who live alone aren’t free from outside interference with our stuff. In episode #245 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses how to work with—or around—the other people who contribute to clutter in our homes.
Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw245
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Duration: 00:56:49Bumps in the Road: How Major Life Events Complicate Our Organizing - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #244
Feb 06, 2025Big life changes can derail our productive routines, introduce new sources of clutter, and complicate the work of decluttering and organizing in frustrating and unexpected ways. In episode #244 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explains how major events confound our efforts to organize and suggests strategies for keeping momentum in spite of life’s interruptions.
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Duration: 00:58:49Re-cluttering Anxiety | Thrifting | Lasting Effects of Decluttering - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #243
Jan 30, 2025Do Clutter Fairy clients experience “re-cluttering anxiety”? What do Gayle and Ed look for in thrift shops? How have our lives changed as a result of our own decluttering efforts? In episode #243 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 through other channels.
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Modify Your Mindset for More Productive Decluttering and Organizing - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #242
Jan 22, 2025The mindset with which we approach organizing challenges can have a huge impact on the results we achieve. An unproductive or negative mindset can halt our progress when we’ve barely gotten into motion. In episode #242 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines the impact of mindset on decluttering and suggests strategies to shift our thinking to be more growth-oriented and productive.
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Heart of the Home: Declutter and Organize Your Kitchen and Pantry - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #241
Jan 15, 2025In most homes, the kitchen is a hive of activity, but all that traffic can lead to confusion and disagreement about how it should be used and what belongs in this mission-critical space. In episode #241 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, slices and dices the problem of kitchen clutter and suggests recipes for streamlining the heart of your family’s life.
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Back to Basics: The Clutter Fairy Reviews Organizing Fundamentals - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #240
Jan 08, 2025Getting organized is simple, but it’s not always easy. For your project to achieve its best results, you need a realistic plan and a clear, consistent process. In episode #240 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, reviews the basic process you can follow to succeed with any decluttering and organizing project.
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Happy New Year! Crowd-sourced Inspiration to Energize Your 2025 - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #239
Dec 31, 2024How can we energize and inspire ourselves to make 2025 our best organizing and decluttering year yet? We asked our audience, then gathered our favorite responses. In special episode #239 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, shares our audience’s favorite inspirational sayings and affirmations—and where we find our motivation.
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Happy Holidays! Self-care Tips for the Festive Season - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #238
Dec 24, 2024Happy holidays from The Clutter Fairy family to you and yours! In special episode #238 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, expresses our holiday wish that you’ll set aside a moment for self-care during this season. We hope a peaceful pause will leave you in better health and spirits and more ready to enjoy time with the people you love.
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Strategy for Success: Make a Plan for a More Organized 2025 - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #237
Dec 19, 2024We’re counting down the remaining days until the new year. This is a great time to celebrate the decluttering and organizing progress you’ve made in 2024 and to make plans for a successful 2025. In episode #237 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores how to choose, plan, and strategize your next big—or small—organizing project.
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How Many Is Too Many? Setting Limits on Your Stuff | Short Takes - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #236
Dec 12, 2024An audience member asked, “How many items in each category is healthy? Excessive but okay? Way too much?” To arrive at an answer, we need to consider the category, the context, and the limits of your space, money, time, and energy. In episode #236 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, contemplates the question “How many is too many?” and discusses other short topics suggested by our viewers and listeners.
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A Clutter Carol: How Ghosts of Past and Future Haunt Our Present - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #235
Dec 05, 2024Is your home a monument to the past, a stockpile for future needs, or a place dedicated to living your best life right now? Finding balance among these roles can help clarify your toughest clutter challenges. In episode #235 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines how nostalgia for the past and plans for every possible future contribute to clutter and suggests way to clear space for a rich and satisfying present life.
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Be Thankful for What You Do (and Don’t) Have: Gratitude and Clutter - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #234
Nov 27, 2024We learn a lot when we consider the emotions and feelings associated with our possessions. The U.S. Thanksgiving holiday is coming up, so let’s examine feelings of gratitude and how they intersect with the accumulation, management, and disposition of our stuff. In episode #234 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores the role of gratitude in our decision-making and the work of decluttering and organizing.
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Black Friday or Buy Nothing Day: Consumerism, Clutter, and Choice - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #233
Nov 22, 2024Many of us love to shop, and stores and online retailers with stuff to sell know how to push our buttons to make the sale. But our spaces get out of balance when we bring home more than we’re using up, giving away, or discarding. In episode #233 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses the effects of consumerism on clutter and offers strategies for resisting the allure of consumerist influences to right-size your shopping practices.
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Ask Us Anything: Short Topics and Viewer and Listener Questions - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #232
Nov 18, 2024In this week’s episode, we’ll continue answering the questions you’ve asked in our surveys, live chat, email, social media, and web site. We’re always ready to listen, and we’re eager to tackle the tough questions and issues that are giving you fits. In episode #232 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 on our surveys and through other channels.
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Ask Us Anything: Short Topics and Viewer and Listener Questions - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #231
Nov 08, 2024It’s time once again for us to devote an episode to answering the questions you ask in our surveys, live chat, email, social media, and web site. We’re always ready to listen, and we’re eager to tackle the tough questions and issues that are giving you fits. In episode #231 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 on our surveys and through other channels.
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You Minus Your Stuff: Visualize and Create a Clutter-less Life - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #230
Nov 01, 2024Clutter is anything that stands between you and the life that you want to be living. What new things and experiences could you make room for in your home and your life if all the clutter was out of your way? In episode #230 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores how clutter interferes with our “best lives” and suggests strategies for gaining more clarity about and control over our stuff.
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Stories We Tell About Our Stuff: Organizing Myths versus Reality - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #229
Oct 23, 2024Many of us approach organizing projects with our heads full of myths, legends, and flat-out lies we’ve accumulated from popular TV shows, mass-market books, nagging parents, and other people’s limiting beliefs. In episode #229 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, uncovers the realities hiding behind popular myths, misconceptions, and limiting beliefs about decluttering and organizing our stuff.
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A Roadmap for Downsizing: Planning for Your Smaller, Simpler Life - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #228
Oct 18, 2024Moving to a smaller home is a complex process that requires careful planning and tough decisions. But sooner or later, we all need to reduce our possessions, either to fit in a smaller space or so we can comfortably and safely age in place. In episode #228 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explains how to plan for a smaller living space and applies downsizing lessons to “right-sizing” the stuff in our cluttered homes.
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Simplify, Relax, and Enjoy: Decluttering Your 2024 Holiday Season - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #227
Oct 03, 2024It's October, so we’re about to embark on the season of food, shopping, celebration, and chaos that runs from now until the new year. This year, why not plan your holiday season to include only your most beloved treats and traditions? In episode #227 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers tips to streamline the season for yourself and your loved ones with simpler, more relaxing, less-cluttered approaches to holiday preparations.
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Ask Us Anything: Helping Hands, Capsule Wardrobes, Digital Photos - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #226
Sep 27, 2024How can I help my cluttered friend with her excess stuff? What goes into a capsule wardrobe? What’s the best way to display digital photos? In episode #226 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, answers your questions about capsule wardrobe contents, sharing digital photos, and offering organizing help and covers other short topics suggested by our viewers and listeners.
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Planes, Trains, Automobiles…and Your House: Organizing Small Spaces - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #225
Sep 20, 2024Airplanes, ships, trains, hotel rooms, and other specialized spaces are designed to get the most efficient use out of limited space. Can we apply design elements of these tiny areas as we organize our own small spaces? In episode #225 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers tips and techniques for getting the most and best use out of your small spaces.
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Ask Us Anything: Procrastination, Help Moving, Organizing Legos - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #224
Sep 13, 2024How do you push back on procrastination? What’s the best way to organize a move so that others can help? What tips can we offer for organizing Lego pieces and projects? In episode #224 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, answers your questions about Legos, organizing moving help, and procrastination and covers other short topics suggested by our viewers and listeners.
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Clutter Redux: How to Shift the Habits that Lead to Re-cluttering - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #223
Sep 06, 2024Do your decluttered spaces seem to collect even more clutter after you organize than they contained before? It can be a challenge to modify your thinking and habits to maintain clear space. In episode #223 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines habitual behaviors of “clutter recidivists” and suggests strategies for breaking patterns that lead back to clutter.
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All the Right Moves: Fresh Perspectives on Packing and Moving - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #222
Aug 31, 2024Nothing challenges an organizer’s professional skills and expertise quite like putting principles into real-world action to move her own household! In episode #222 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses best practices of move planning, packing, moving, and unpacking from the fresh perspective of having just moved to her new house.
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Identity Clutter: Stuff That Affects Who We Are or Want to Be - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #221
Aug 20, 2024Sometimes our emotions about certain stuff get muddled up with our sense of who we used to be, who we are, or who we hope to be someday. This “identity clutter” can be anything we’re hanging onto that no longer supports the life we really want to be living. In episode #221 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses sources of identity clutter and offers strategies for letting go of stuff without damaging our sense of self.
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Ask Us Anything: Viewer and Listener Questions and Brief Topics - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #220
Aug 05, 2024How do you handle other people’s opinions about your clutter? How do you make environmentally conscious decisions while downsizing? Is there a difference between “just in case” items and clutter? In episode #220 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, answers your questions about unsolicited opinions, green decluttering, and “just in case” stuff and covers other short topics suggested by our viewers and listeners.
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Forgotten, But Not Gone: Identify and Clear “Outdated Clutter” - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #219
Jul 28, 2024An audience member recently asked, “Is it time to let the Rolodex roll away?” Good question! Why do we keep so many things in our spaces long after they’ve outlived their usefulness or relevance? In episode #219 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores the sources and causes of “outdated clutter”—stuff that’s overstayed its welcome but still takes up valuable space in our homes.
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Clutter vs. Productivity: Organize to Optimize Your Daily Routine 2 - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #218
Jul 06, 2024Living the lives we dream of starts with making the most of every day. But cluttered spaces and unproductive habits can waste valuable time, sap our strength and stamina, and keep us from making each day count toward our long-term goals. In episode #218 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, continues our discussion about ways to streamline our homes and lives with healthy, effective habits and routines.
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Well Begun is Half Done: Organize to Optimize Your Daily Routine - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #217
Jun 26, 2024Living the lives we dream of starts with making the most of every day. But cluttered spaces and unproductive habits can waste valuable time, sap our strength and stamina, and keep us from making each day count toward our long-term goals. In episode #217 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores ways to streamline our homes and habits to support healthy and productive daily routines.
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Time to Hit the Road: Plan, Prepare, and Pack for Low-Stress Travel - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #216
Jun 19, 2024Leisure travel seems to be booming again—industry forecasts indicate that vacation travel is likely to return to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2024. But if you’re not careful, the effort and inconveniences of travel can detract from your hard-earned fun. In episode #216 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers advice for planning, packing, and preparing for minimum-stress, maximum-fun vacation travel.
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A Brighter Emotional Landscape: Declutter for Positive Change - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #215
Jun 11, 2024Many of us experience a feedback loop between clutter and negative emotions—we feel bad, so we ignore or exacerbate our clutter, which makes us feel worse. Living with clutter can reinforce unproductive patterns such as self-distraction, resistance, and avoidance of pain. In episode #215 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explains how the decluttering process can help us release bad feelings and work toward a more positive emotional environment.
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Declutter to Go: Strategies for Move Planning, Packing, and Moving - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #214
May 29, 2024An impending move sharpens the urgency of eliminating stuff you no longer use, want, or need. Would you rather purge through careful, calm decisions, or in a panicked state because you’ve run out of time and energy to pack? In episode #214 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers tips to optimize planning, packing, and moving your household and suggests ways to leverage moving strategies to declutter while staying put.
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Tangled Up in Knots: Creative Problem-Solving for Stubborn Projects - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #213
May 21, 2024Sometimes we make our lives harder by tying ourselves up in knots—confusing the problems we need to solve with our thoughts and feelings about them. In episode #213 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers fresh perspectives and bold approaches for cutting through emotional tangles to arrive at creative, practical solutions to intractable clutter problems.
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Mindful Shopping: Don’t Let Retail Therapy Add to Your Clutter - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #212
May 14, 2024Shopping is a source of entertainment, fun, and relaxation for many people. But “retail therapy” becomes a problem if it contributes to the clutter in our homes. In episode #212 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores the perils of “retail therapy” and offers strategies for bringing mindfulness, balance, and care to our shopping habits.
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Down, But Not Out: The Clutter Fairy Guide to Downsizing - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #211
May 07, 2024Moving to a smaller home is a complex process that requires careful planning and tough decisions. But sooner or later, we all need to reduce our possessions, either to fit in a smaller space or so we can comfortably age in place. In episode #211 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores the challenges of shifting to a smaller space and applies downsizing lessons to “right-sizing” the stuff in our cluttered homes.
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Ask Us Anything: Answers to Your Questions, Plus Ultra-short Topics - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #210
Apr 30, 2024Did the pandemic change the rules for keeping clothes? What’s a practical storage solution for a journal collection? And how does Ed’s (kitchen) garden grow? In episode #210 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, answers your questions about culinary plants, journal collections, and old clothes and covers other short topics suggested by our viewers and listeners.
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Your Best and Your Worst: Household Sweet Spots and Problem Areas - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #209
Apr 23, 2024Some spaces and categories of stuff in our homes are relatively easy to declutter and organize, but some are constant sources of struggle. What lessons can our “sweet spots” teach us for managing our trouble areas? In episode #209 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores household problem areas and clear zones and offers strategies for working toward a whole house that’s a clutter-free sweet spot.
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Vicious Cycle: Clutter as a Symptom and Cause of Negative Emotions - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #208
Apr 16, 2024Negative emotions complicate and compound the difficulty of managing our clutter. Guilt, shame, fear, grief, anger, and other painful feelings reduce our ability to focus and make decisions, and cluttered spaces and piles of stuff can aggravate our emotional distress. In episode #208 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers strategies for working around or through negative emotions to move your projects forward no matter where you’re starting from.
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How Much Lining Does an Empty Nest Need? and Other Good Questions - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #207
Apr 10, 2024An audience member asked, “How much should you keep for your ‘little birdies’ while they’re testing their wings?” There are difficult decisions and challenges to face as you transition from a full house to an empty nest. In episode #207 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses not-quite-empty nests, Earth Day organizing, and other questions and short topics suggested by our viewers and listeners.
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Recognize and Avoid the Slippery Slope that Leads Back to Clutter - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #206
Mar 26, 2024An audience member asked, “What should we do if we notice ourselves becoming more disorganized than usual?” The good news is that you can learn to recognize the warning signs that clutter is creeping back into your previously organized life. In episode #206 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores the tendency to relapse into cluttering behaviors and offers tips for maintaining good habits and routines to stay organized.
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It’s the Little Things: The Organizing Challenges of Small Items - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #205
Mar 20, 2024Do you sweat the small stuff? Little things can cause some of our biggest organizing headaches: spice jars, tiny bottles and tubes of notions and potions, jewelry, accessories, sticky notes and scraps of paper, the contents of purses, and all the various bits and bobs that collect in our lives and our homes. In episode #205 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers strategies for corralling the collections of small items that present big organizing challenges.
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Look Good on Paper: Control the Influx and Manage What You Keep - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #204
Mar 12, 2024Paper is a plentiful source of clutter—and frustration—for many people. Even though our digital lives offer us more options than ever for “going paperless,” paper clutter still seems to keep stacking up. In episode #204 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines habits, behaviors, and attitudes that lead us to keep more paper than we need or can manage and offers pointers for purging your personal paper piles.
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Convenience vs. Clarity | Avoiding Consumerism | Cluttered Siblings - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #203
Feb 27, 2024Join us for another “Ask Us Anything” episode. We’ll answer viewer and listener questions and discuss short topics suggested by our audience in our surveys and through our other channels. In episode #203 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses striving for balance between convenience and clarity, how to avoid falling victim to ads and consumerist messages, and organizing and cluttering styles among siblings.
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Spring Is in the Air: Leap into Cleaning with a Plan for Success - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #202
Feb 20, 2024This month presents a rare treat—an extra day on the calendar! How about using some of that bonus time to get a jump on your spring cleaning by drafting a project plan? In episode #202 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, peeks into often-neglected corners of our lives and shares a list of simple cleaning chores where you can rack up big spring wins.
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Love Me, Love My Clutter: Organizing Styles and Relationships - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #201
Feb 13, 2024We love the people in our lives—and we also love our stuff. But sometimes our feelings about and behavior with regard to our clutter can create distance, conflict, or tension with people we care about. In episode #201 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines the ways in which our attachment to stuff complicates our relationships and offers strategies for defusing conflict and holding space for love.
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Why We Procrastinate and What We’re Planning to Do About It…Later - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #200
Feb 06, 2024Why do we procrastinate? We’re probably not lazy or lacking in self-control. We know what needs to be done and why it’s important to us. So why do we go out of our way to avoid the inevitable? In episode #200 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores procrastination and avoidance behavior and suggests tips and techniques for breaking an unproductive cycle.
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Just Right: Keeping Decor from Exacerbating Your Clutter Problem - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #199
Jan 31, 2024Well-chosen decor can express your personality and make your home feel warm, cozy, and inviting. But a lot can go wrong as you select objects, colors, textures, and materials to decorate your space. In episode #199 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines ways that decor can lead to clutter and suggests strategies for right-sizing your decorative choices.
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Good Questions: What to Ask Yourself as You Evaluate Your Stuff - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #198
Jan 23, 2024How do we evaluate the stuff in our lives? What questions should we be asking about ourselves and our belongings as we decide what to keep and what to let go? In episode #198 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores the power of questions to unpack clutter issues and suggests queries that can get to the heart of our toughest challenges.
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A Game You Can Win: Using Gamification in Your Organizing Process - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #197
Jan 16, 2024Gamification is the practice of incorporating traditional elements of games—scorekeeping, rewards, social components, etc., to non-game contexts, such as decluttering and organizing. In episode #197 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores the pros and cons of gamifying your organizing process and suggests ways to set yourself up to win big.
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Three Strategies to Kick Off Your Best Organizing Year Yet in 2024 - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #196
Dec 31, 2023Wherever you find yourself in your organizing journey as 2023 draws to a close, we plan to be here to encourage and support you this week, next week, and throughout the year. In episode #196 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, pledges to help and cheer on our community in making 2024 your best decluttering and organizing year yet!
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Happy Holidays from The Clutter Fairy Family to You and Yours! - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #195
Dec 24, 2023Happy holidays from The Clutter Fairy family to you and yours! In episode #195 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, thanks our clients, patrons, friends, family, viewers, and listeners for your generous support this year and wishes you a joyous and peaceful holiday season filled with all that your heart desires!
The text of this message and other show notes can be found at https://cfhou.com/tcfw195.
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Balancing Functionality and Aesthetics in the Organizing Process - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #194
Dec 19, 2023Should your home be optimized to function smoothly, to look beautiful, or some combination of the two? Where are you willing to compromise, and what’s non-negotiable? In episode #194 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses the priorities that inform our decluttering and organizing choices and suggests strategies for finding your personal perfect balance.
Show notes: http://cfhou.com/tcfw194
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Ask Us Anything: More Viewer/Listener Questions and Short Topics - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #193
Dec 12, 2023Last week’s dip into our mailbag was so much fun that we’re going to do some more! We’ll discuss “decluttering clutter,” how to start clearing a jam-packed space, organizing plants and pets, and more. In episode #193 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, is back to answer more viewer and listener questions and discuss short topics suggested by our audience in our surveys and through our other channels.
Show notes: http://cfhou.com/tcfw193
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We’re Listening: The Clutter Fairy Answers *Your* Survey Questions - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #192
Dec 06, 2023It’s been a while since we focused a complete episode on answering the questions you share with us in our surveys, live chat, email, social media, and web site. We’re always ready to listen, and we’re eager to tackle the tough questions and issues that are giving you fits. In episode #192 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 on our surveys and through other channels.
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Plan Ahead: Hit the Reset Button for You and Your Space in 2024 - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #191
Nov 29, 2023The new year is a great time to “hit reset”: to refresh your priorities, revisit your goals, and reconsider your habits and behaviors. The more thought you put into your reset process, the more success you’re likely to achieve. In episode #191 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses how to hit reset on organizing projects, the pros and cons of resolutions, and tips for planning a successful “Get Organized Month.”
Show notes: http://cfhou.com/tcfw191
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Thin the Herd: A Clutter Fairy Guide to Talking About Organizing - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #190
Nov 15, 2023Our recent surveys included a question inviting our audience to offer your favorite “Clutter Fairy-ism,” decluttering and organizing aphorism, or helpful mnemonic device. We collected a lot of great answers, and next week we’re going to share your favorites. In episode #190 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, presents a primer of beloved Gayle-isms and useful phrases that help us keep focus in our organizing and decluttering work.
Show notes: http://cfhou.com/tcfw190
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