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PODCAST

The Clutter Fairy Weekly

Gayle Goddard and Ed Gumnick

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

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53:44

Because You’re Worth It: Decluttering as Self-care -...

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2022/03/15

Cluttered space impacts and complicates every other aspect of our lives—our physical fitness, emotional health, productivity, family, financial wellbeing, happiness, sense of satisfaction, you name it. In episode #111 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, reframes decluttering as a form of self-care and offers tips for supporting your most important organizing helper: you.Show notes: http://cfhou.com/tcfw111The Clutter

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In Search of Balance: Managing Your Time, Energy, and...

The Clutter Fairy Weekly ·

2022/03/08

Creating a home that supports the life you love is what organizing is all about! But if you’re working to clear a backlog and cultivate habits to reduce future clutter, it can be hard to find the time and energy for much else. In episode #110 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, suggests strategies to balance the competing priorities of clearing clutter and enjoying your best life.Show notes: http://cfhou.com/tcfw110The

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Many Hands: How to Ask for Decluttering Assistance...

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2022/03/01

Sometimes the work of organizing is too overwhelming for one person to tackle, so we ask for help. But helpers who aren’t sensitive to our goals, priorities, and emotional needs can create more problems than they solve. In episode #109 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers guidance on asking for help with your decluttering projects or offering your assistance to others who need it.Show notes:

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Function Conjunction: Clutter Issues in Multiple-Use...

The Clutter Fairy Weekly ·

2022/02/22

Do you have an office that doubles as a guest room, a Zoom studio, a library, a craft room, and a gift-wrapping room? How about a closet that doubles as a pantry, or maybe a spare bedroom that doubles as an overflow closet? In episode #108 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines the organizing issues of multi-function spaces and offers strategies for optimizing your use of these versatile rooms.Show notes:

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Special Announcement: ADHD Across the Lifespan - The...

The Clutter Fairy Weekly ·

2022/02/16

Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, welcomes Ellen Delap of the Attention Deficit Disorders Association–Southern Region to share information about “ADHD Across the Lifespan,” a symposium for anyone interested in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, including those with ADHD, parents, partners and spouses, caregivers, educators, counselors, and other professionals. Five national experts will share strategies that cut across all the different

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49:39

Spread Too Thin, Piled Too High: Clutter in the...

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2022/02/15

“Sandwich Generation” refers to middle-aged people who shoulder the responsibility for both their own children and aging parents, while still trying to enjoy a life of their own. In episode #107 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores the unique clutter challenges facing the Sandwich Generation and suggests strategies for balancing these competing priorities.Show notes: http://cfhou.com/tcfw107Links mentioned in

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55:44

I’ve Got a Feeling: When Emotions Complicate the...

The Clutter Fairy Weekly ·

2022/02/08

More often than not, the stories that people who struggle with clutter tell start with the words “I feel….” Even emotions with little clear connection to our stuff can muddle our decision-making and impede progress. In episode #106 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines negative feelings that complicate decluttering and offers encouragement to put positive emotions to work in the process.Show notes:

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Get Off to a Strong Start (or Restart) in GO Month...

The Clutter Fairy Weekly ·

2022/02/02

January was Get Organized month—a time when many people embark on new decluttering goals or try to revive projects where they’ve gotten stuck. If you’re not sure where to start—or restart—we’ve got you covered. In episode #105 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers pointers to set yourself up for decluttering success or breathe new life into stalled organizing plans.Show notes: http://cfhou.com/tcfw105The Clutter

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Decluttering on a Budget: Tips and Tricks to Organize...

The Clutter Fairy Weekly ·

2022/01/18

Not everyone has the resources to install custom storage solutions, field a team of professional helpers, or make unlimited supply runs to expensive stores. But a modest budget shouldn’t stand between you and the organized life you want to live! In episode #104 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, shares a collection of lower-cost organizing strategies for the do-it-yourself organizer on a budget.Show notes:

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57:41

Clearing Decluttering Clutter: Find an Approach that...

The Clutter Fairy Weekly ·

2022/01/11

The world of decluttering can be a confusing realm of competing philosophies, methods, strategies, books, courses, webcasts, podcasts, and apps. But how do we cut through the “decluttering clutter” to find an approach that works for us? In episode #103 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores several popular approaches to organizing and explains how to choose a strategy that matches your levels of motivation,

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A Defining Moment: What “Clutter” Means in Your Life...

The Clutter Fairy Weekly ·

2022/01/04

Are some things objectively clutter, or is calling something “clutter” just a personal judgment? It’s hard to solve a problem that isn’t clearly defined, so it’s important to get clear about what we mean by clutter. In episode #102 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines several definitions we can use to identify and categorize clutter and looks at how our understanding of the word impacts our approach to

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Make Changes You Can Love: Reframing Your New Year’s...

The Clutter Fairy Weekly ·

2021/12/21

As New Year’s Eve approaches, we spend moments of self-reflection and inspiration coming up with lofty goals for next year. We set them…and then promptly forget them. In episode #101 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explains reasons why New Year’s resolutions fail more often than they succeed and suggests more effective ways to frame changes you want to make in your life.Show notes: http://cfhou.com/tcfw101The

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Season’s Greetings from Our Family to Yours - Happy...

The Clutter Fairy Weekly ·

2021/12/20

Season’s greetings from The Clutter Fairy family to you and yours! In episode #100 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 love and light!The text of this message and other show notes can be found at http://cfhou.com/tcfw100.The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a

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Putting Projects on Hold | Self-care Tips for the...

The Clutter Fairy Weekly ·

2021/12/14

Sometimes the pressure of other activities and priorities means that we have to put organizing projects on hold—or at least in slow motion—and it can be hard to keep enthusiasm and momentum when the time comes to restart. In episode #99 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers strategies for keeping focus and commitment for projects that we’ve put on hold. We also share a holiday gift of self-care tips!Show notes:

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57:46

Clarify Boundaries to Keep Focus in Your Organizing...

The Clutter Fairy Weekly ·

2021/12/07

It’s easy to get confused as you navigate the blurry borders between decluttering, organizing, and ticking off your routine cleaning and maintenance chores. In episode #98 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, clarifies the distinctions between clearing clutter, organizing, and tangential household tasks and offers strategies for keeping focus as you pursue organizing goals.Show notes: http://cfhou.com/tcfw098The Clutter

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46:21

Make Room for the Life You Love: Setting Organizing...

The Clutter Fairy Weekly ·

2021/11/30

Stuff becomes clutter when it stands in the way of our vision for what we want and need in our homes: relationships, fulfillment, comfort, peace of mind, and so on. In episode #97 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explains how to turn clutter obstacles into the starting points and motivation for setting concrete goals and planning new organizing projects.Show notes: http://cfhou.com/tcfw097The Clutter Fairy Weekly is

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57:33

Values, Dreams, and Aspirations: Shaping a Vision for...

The Clutter Fairy Weekly ·

2021/11/23

We’ve talked about how your home’s functions, the people who live there, and your most-loved belongings can contribute to a vision for a home that supports the life you want. In episode #96 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, integrates your values, dreams, and aspirations into the process of shaping a vision to clarify and guide your decluttering efforts.This episode is Part II of a two-part series. See Part I.Show

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52:12

Form, Function, and Feeling: Creating a Vision for...

The Clutter Fairy Weekly ·

2021/11/16

Our homes tend to fill up with the artifacts and debris of our busy lives as much as by conscious choices that we’ve made, so they can come to represent a distorted view of our lives and our tastes. In episode #95 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, suggests designing a vision for your home to guide your decluttering efforts and to reflect a truer picture of who you are and what you love.This episode is Part I of a

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Armor for Everyday Life: Trends in Decluttering Your...

The Clutter Fairy Weekly ·

2021/11/09

The rise of fast fashion, the ease of online shopping, and the popularity of retail therapy have left many of us with closets and dressers stuffed to overflowing—sometimes with clothes that we’ve never even gotten around to wearing. In episode #94 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses fresh ways to think about your personal style and offers alternative strategies to make your wardrobe manageable and

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55:59

One Day at a Time: Establishing Daily Decluttering...

The Clutter Fairy Weekly ·

2021/11/02

For most people, a clutter problem doesn’t spring up overnight—it’s the result of long-term habits of delaying decisions, ignoring minor messes, and accumulating new stuff faster than you eliminate old stuff. In episode #93 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, talks about how to stem the flow of clutter at the source by incorporating key decluttering habits into every day.Show notes: http://cfhou.com/tcfw093The Clutter

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