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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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Clarify Boundaries to Keep Focus in Your Organizing...

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

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

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

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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...

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

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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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Resistance is Not Futile: Avoid or Escape the...

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2021/10/26

Some 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 it’s easy for our spaces to get out of balance if we bring home more than we’re using up, giving away, or getting rid of. In episode #92 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, talks about the effects of consumerism on clutter and offers strategies for resisting the onslaught of advertising messages

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Estate of Confusion: Clear Estate Clutter (and Plan...

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2021/10/19

Sooner or later, most of us find ourselves dealing with stuff left behind by loved ones, and inherited clutter presents some big, prickly emotional challenges. In episode #91 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, shares stories from the estate-clutter trenches and suggests ways to make the clearing process easier for yourself, your spouse, your parents, and your own children or heirs.Show notes:

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Uncluttered Home for the Holidays 2021: Tips for a...

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2021/10/12

Halloween is right around the corner, and before you can say Boo!, it’ll be time to run the annual rat race from Thanksgiving to New Year. In episode #90 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, focuses on streamlining the holiday season for you and your loved ones and offers simpler, less stressful, less-cluttered approaches to holiday gift-giving, decorating, and entertaining.Show notes: http://cfhou.com/tcfw090The Clutter

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The Value Equation: Mental Models for Making Sense of...

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2021/10/05

A lot of conflicting factors compete in our heads as we weigh whether to keep or let go of stuff. Thoughts and feelings about price, value, beauty, and sentiment struggle against harsh realities of space limitations, dust, time, and mobility. In episode #89 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines mental models that contribute to the complexity of keep–toss decisions and offers strategies for making choices that

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The Great Outdoors: Organize Your Garage, Balcony,...

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2021/09/28

We’re getting a break from summer heat—time to get outdoors! For those of us who struggle with clutter, outside spaces can become blocked with junk instead of supporting our outdoor aspirations. In episode #88 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, talks about the kinds of clutter that spill out of our homes and into our garages, patios, sheds, and storage units and shares ideas for making those spaces useful again.Show

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Unintentional Collections: The Stashes We Gather...

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2021/09/21

When we talk about collecting, we usually mean the deliberate accumulation of items in a narrow category, like shot glasses, postcards, or Beanie Babies. But sometimes we end up with a “collection” without even trying: a cupboard full of coffee mugs, 17 kinds of body wash, or enough wrapping paper to last the next 20 Decembers. In episode #87 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, identifies sources of unintentional

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Overcoming Barriers: Simple Ways to Get Unstuck and...

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2021/09/07

Ancient wisdom tells us that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. But negative emotions and attitudes can make it hard to find that first step in our organizing process. In episode #86 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, shares simple techniques to short-circuit negative thinking, get unstuck, and start reclaiming your space and your life.Show notes: http://cfhou.com/tcfw086Visit the Productivity

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Independence, Safety, Security, Comfort: Organizing...

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2021/08/31

Aging forces us to shift our thinking about many aspects of our lives, including our mobility, safety, comfort, and independence. In episode #85 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, considers the pros and cons of “aging in place” from an organizing perspective and offers strategies for preparing your home for the future you.Show notes: http://cfhou.com/tcfw085The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podcast

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The Kid Zone: Organizing Playrooms and Children’s...

The Clutter Fairy Weekly ·

2021/08/25

Children aren’t just small adults, and kid-related clutter presents a unique set of organizing issues. In episode #84 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers strategies for organizing children’s bedrooms and playrooms. And for our kid-free audience members, we’ll also talk about man-caves and she-sheds.Show notes: http://cfhou.com/tcfw084The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podcast designed to help you

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The Clutter Fairy Weekly #83 - Winds of Change:...

The Clutter Fairy Weekly ·

2021/08/17

Change is inevitable, and changes in our lives and our habits can turn important stuff into clutter overnight. In episode #83 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examines how change impacts our relationship to stuff and explores how to leverage the organizing process as a means to accept and adapt to change.Show notes: http://cfhou.com/tcfw083The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podcast designed to help you

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