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
275 episodes
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
Book Club: Decluttering at the Speed of Life (Dana K. White) - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #258
Dana 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 ...
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Season 6
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Episode 258
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1:01:31
Yours, Mine, Ours: Seeking Clarity in Our Cluttered Relationships - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #257
Clutter 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, an...
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Season 6
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Episode 257
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1:05:24
New and Improved: Declutter to Streamline Your Renovation Project - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #256
Renovating 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, G...
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Season 6
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Episode 256
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55:25
The Best Part of Moving | Decluttering Regret | Fixing No-go Zones - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #255
Moving 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,...
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Season 6
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Episode 255
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58:44
Positive Psychology for Clearing Clutter from Your Home and Head - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #254
Decluttering 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
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Season 6
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Episode 254
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57:07
Dining Rooms: Traditional, Multifunctional, or Gone Out of Style? - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #253
Contemporary 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 epis...
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Season 6
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Episode 253
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55:40
Work with a Professional Organizer…or Organize Like You’re a Pro - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #252
Working 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, creat...
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Season 6
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Episode 252
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1:00:28
Balancing Act: Managing Your Decluttering Projects and Priorities - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #251
Not 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,
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Season 6
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Episode 251
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1:02:51
Children’s Artwork | Attractive Storage | Turning Into Your Mother - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #250
Children’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, profess...
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Season 6
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Episode 250
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23:12
Give Stuff Away Through Creative Donation, plus More Short Topics - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #249
We’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...
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Season 6
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Episode 249
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1:02:52
Book Club: Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism (Sasaki) - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #248
In 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 life...
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Season 6
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Episode 248
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1:03:24
Paper Problems: Pile-purging Practices for Productivity and Peace - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #247
It’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, ma...
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Season 6
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Episode 247
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58:46
