The Clutter Fairy Weekly

Out of Sight, On Your Mind: Declutter Your Personal Space of Shame - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #298

01 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Many of us have a place that serves as a last private refuge for clutter. Junk drawers, inaccessible closets, spare rooms—we use these spaces to con...

Not My Stuff, But Still My Problem: Decluttering for Caregivers - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #297

23 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Managing our own stuff is tough enough—but the process gets even more difficult and complicated when we’re caregivers for children, dependent adul...

Book Club: New Order: A Decluttering Handbook for Creative Folks (and Everyone Else) (Wolf) - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #296

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

“Can a decluttered space fuel a creative mind?” Author Fay Wolf answers an enthusiastic yes in her book New Order: A Decluttering Handbook for Cre...

Decluttering and Organizing in Relation to the Death of a Spouse - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #295

06 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The death of a spouse or life partner can create profound disruptions in the lives and homes of the survivors. The combination of grief with a huge ad...

Collect and Organize Paperwork to Get Ready for Tax Preparation - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #294

01 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s tax prep season in the U.S.—time to gather, review, and organize the documents you’ll need to file your taxes. If you’ve been organizing ...

How to Disassemble a Loved One’s Craft Room and More Short Topics - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #293

20 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

How do you go about breaking down a deceased loved one’s art or craft room? A creative space can be a minefield of memories, emotional challenges, a...

The Right Stuff: Assemble Your Decluttering and Organizing Toolkit - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #292

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

As you work toward your organizing goals, it’s important to set yourself up to succeed by creating a supportive environment. A key condition for suc...

Overcome Overwhelm: Stop Your Emotional Juggling and Move Forward - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #291

31 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

People with clutter issues often report feeling overwhelmed—like a juggler trying to keep too many balls in the air. Even when they know where they’...

Clean Break: How to Declutter and Organize the Bathroom - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #290

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Bathrooms are typically small rooms that play a huge role in our health, hygiene, appearance, and relaxation. But the frequent and steady traffic they...

Special Guest: Karen Baker on Productivity and Organization - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #289

17 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Cluttered spaces reduce our productivity by draining energy and focus, adding distractions, and wasting our most valuable resource—time. Getting org...

Looking Back to Move Forward: Your Organizing Year in Review - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #288

08 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What did you learn about yourself and your stuff through your decluttering efforts in 2025? What lessons will you take forward into your organizing wo...

Commitments You’ll Love to Keep: Reframe New Year’s Resolutions - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #287

30 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As 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 th...

Season’s Greetings from The Clutter Fairy Family to You and Yours! - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #286

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Season’s greetings from The Clutter Fairy family to you and yours! In special episode #286 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional ...

Celebrate Wins | Set Boundaries on Stuff | Declutter Subscriptions - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #285

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What are your favorite ways to celebrate decluttering wins? What boundaries does the Clutter Fairy set on her own stuff? How do we declutter our subsc...

A Matter of Taste: Declutter Decor to Fit Your Evolving Style - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #284

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Some 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 ...

Don’t Buy the Hype: Conscientious Shopping in the Holiday Season - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #283

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As 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 ...

Helping Hands: How to Ask for Decluttering Support (or Offer Yours) - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #282

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The 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...

Clear the Deck: Organize to Prepare for Injury, Illness, Disability - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #281

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sooner or later, most households will experience health or mobility issues of some kind. An injury, illness, or age-related loss of mobility will ofte...

Being Grateful for What We Have (or Don’t): Gratitude and Clutter - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #280

15 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’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 celebra...

Learn from the Past | Clutter on the Go | Default Capsule Wardrobes - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #279

08 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What did we do differently at times in our lives when we were less cluttered? What’s good advice for staying organized and decluttered while traveli...

Service Solutions: When Doing All the Work Yourself Is Too Much - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #278

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Decluttering and organizing is time-consuming, emotionally challenging, and sometimes physically demanding work. If you find that can’t get it all d...

Value Versus Values: How We Think About What Our Stuff Is Worth - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #277

26 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our perceptions of the value of our stuff can cloud our judgment about what really supports the life we want to be living—and what doesn’t. But a ...

Book Club: ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life (Kolberg/Nadeau) - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #276

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

People with ADHD often struggle to declutter and organize because of challenges with time management, planning, and executive function. ADD-Friendly W...

From Chaotic Hiding Place to Peaceful Retreat: The Primary Bedroom - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #275

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The main bedroom should be a quiet, peaceful sanctuary where we recharge ourselves and enjoy intimate moments. But when clutter invades, visual distra...

More ABCs of Clutter: Another Alphabet of Organizing Suggestions - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #274

03 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Clutter insinuates itself into every part of our lives: our space, our time, our emotions, our relationships. From boxes moldering in the Attic to the...

Clutter Hacks: Five-minute Maintenance Habits to Make a Big Impact - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #273

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Clearing clutter is really two jobs: reducing the backlog of accumulated stuff and cultivating habits to keep the mess from getting worse. The more ef...

Creative-output Clutter | Learning to Live in Decluttered Space - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #272

20 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What are we supposed to do with art and craft projects after we’ve finished them? How can chronically cluttered people learn to be comfortable in a ...

Clutter-friendly Ways to Give, Receive, Downsize, and Regift Gifts - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #271

13 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

A Houseful of Limitless Potential: Clutter and the Creative Mind - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #270

05 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Do your efforts to declutter conflict with your calling to live a brilliant, original, and creative life? For artists, craftspeople, and hobbyists, th...

Partners in Clutter: Organizing With (or in Spite of) Other People - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #269

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Other people can be valuable companions in our decluttering and organizing journeys, or they can interfere with our best efforts. We have to be carefu...

Not Getting Any Younger: Age as a Factor in Clutter (continued) - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #268

23 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The effects of aging can add significant challenges to the work of managing our clutter. But decluttering and organizing our spaces yields lots of ben...

Not Getting Any Younger: Age as a Factor in Clutter and Organizing - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #267

17 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The effects of aging can add significant challenges to the work of managing our clutter. But decluttering and organizing our spaces yields lots of ben...

The Clutter Fairy’s Favorite Organizing Solutions and Products - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #266

08 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 par...

How We Define “Organized” | Answering Your Decluttering Naysayers - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #265

03 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A viewer asked, “Can you define the term ‘organized’?” The dictionary definition leaves us a little cold, so we’ll suggest one that works be...

Getting Honest With Yourself About What Works and What Doesn’t - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #264

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 b...

The Home Office: Align Your Workspace with How You Really Work Now - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #263

20 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 consequen...

Reality Checks: What We Learn About Ourselves as We Get Organized - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #262

13 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

How to Organize and Store Cleaning Products, plus More Short Topics - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #261

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

When It’s Time for a Change, Downsize and Declutter Your Wardrobe - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #260

28 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Does your wardrobe include clothes you’ve never even gotten around to wearing? The convenience of online shopping, the proliferation of fast fashion...

Your Home Is Not a Museum: Making Tough Choices About Collections - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #259

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Book Club: Decluttering at the Speed of Life (Dana K. White) - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #258

08 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 co...

Yours, Mine, Ours: Seeking Clarity in Our Cluttered Relationships - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #257

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Clutter can interfere with our relationships, and complex relationships can make it harder to face our clutter. Managing our own stuff while navigatin...

New and Improved: Declutter to Streamline Your Renovation Project - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #256

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ef...

The Best Part of Moving | Decluttering Regret | Fixing No-go Zones - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #255

14 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Positive Psychology for Clearing Clutter from Your Home and Head - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #254

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

Dining Rooms: Traditional, Multifunctional, or Gone Out of Style? - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #253

03 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 sti...

Work with a Professional Organizer…or Organize Like You’re a Pro - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #252

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, y...

Balancing Act: Managing Your Decluttering Projects and Priorities - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #251

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Not all decluttering and organizing tasks are created equal. Some projects give us a fresh look at our cherished belongings; others are just plain cho...

Children’s Artwork | Attractive Storage | Turning Into Your Mother - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #250

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 i...

Give Stuff Away Through Creative Donation, plus More Short Topics - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #249

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve talked a lot about the usual donation destinations—charity stores, creative-reuse centers, the curb, etc.—but what about unusual ideas for...

Book Club: Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism (Sasaki) - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #248

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 st...

Paper Problems: Pile-purging Practices for Productivity and Peace - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #247

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, b...

Gayle Unscripted: What Do We Really Need? and Other Questions - The Clutter Fairy Weekly EXTRA

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Her 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 episo...

Excavate the Welcome Mat: Declutter and Organize for Entertaining - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #246

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The 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...

Significant Others: Decluttering with (or in Spite of) Other People - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #245

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Do the people with whom you share your space complicate your decluttering process? Living companions with conflicting household habits and routines ca...

Bumps in the Road: How Major Life Events Complicate Our Organizing - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #244

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Big life changes can derail our productive routines, introduce new sources of clutter, and complicate the work of decluttering and organizing in frust...

Re-cluttering Anxiety | Thrifting | Lasting Effects of Decluttering - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #243

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Do 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...

Modify Your Mindset for More Productive Decluttering and Organizing - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #242

22 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The mindset with which we approach organizing challenges can have a huge impact on the results we achieve. An unproductive or negative mindset can hal...

Heart of the Home: Declutter and Organize Your Kitchen and Pantry - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #241

15 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 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 bel...

Back to Basics: The Clutter Fairy Reviews Organizing Fundamentals - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #240

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Getting 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, consiste...

Happy New Year! Crowd-sourced Inspiration to Energize Your 2025 - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #239

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How can we energize and inspire ourselves to make 2025 our best organizing and decluttering year yet? We asked our audience, then gathered our favorit...

Happy Holidays! Self-care Tips for the Festive Season - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #238

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Happy holidays from The Clutter Fairy family to you and yours! In special episode #238 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organi...

Strategy for Success: Make a Plan for a More Organized 2025 - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #237

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We’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 ...

How Many Is Too Many? Setting Limits on Your Stuff | Short Takes - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #236

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An 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 consi...

A Clutter Carol: How Ghosts of Past and Future Haunt Our Present - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #235

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is 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 thes...

Be Thankful for What You Do (and Don’t) Have: Gratitude and Clutter - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #234

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We 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 exam...

Black Friday or Buy Nothing Day: Consumerism, Clutter, and Choice - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #233

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Many 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 b...

Ask Us Anything: Short Topics and Viewer and Listener Questions - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #232

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 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’r...

Ask Us Anything: Short Topics and Viewer and Listener Questions - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #231

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’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...

You Minus Your Stuff: Visualize and Create a Clutter-less Life - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #230

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Clutter 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 h...

Stories We Tell About Our Stuff: Organizing Myths versus Reality - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #229

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Many of us approach organizing projects with our heads full of myths, legends, and flat-out lies we’ve accumulated from popular TV shows, mass-marke...

A Roadmap for Downsizing: Planning for Your Smaller, Simpler Life - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #228

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Moving 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 posse...

Simplify, Relax, and Enjoy: Decluttering Your 2024 Holiday Season - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #227

03 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It'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...

Ask Us Anything: Helping Hands, Capsule Wardrobes, Digital Photos - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #226

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How 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 episo...

Planes, Trains, Automobiles…and Your House: Organizing Small Spaces - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #225

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Airplanes, ships, trains, hotel rooms, and other specialized spaces are designed to get the most efficient use out of limited space. Can we apply desi...

Ask Us Anything: Procrastination, Help Moving, Organizing Legos - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #224

13 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How 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 ...

Clutter Redux: How to Shift the Habits that Lead to Re-cluttering - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #223

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do your decluttered spaces seem to collect even more clutter after you organize than they contained before? It can be a challenge to modify your think...

All the Right Moves: Fresh Perspectives on Packing and Moving - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #222

31 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nothing challenges an organizer’s professional skills and expertise quite like putting principles into real-world action to move her own household! ...

Identity Clutter: Stuff That Affects Who We Are or Want to Be - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #221

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes 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 “ident...

Ask Us Anything: Viewer and Listener Questions and Brief Topics - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #220

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do you handle other people’s opinions about your clutter? How do you make environmentally conscious decisions while downsizing? Is there a diffe...

Forgotten, But Not Gone: Identify and Clear “Outdated Clutter” - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #219

28 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An 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 afte...

Clutter vs. Productivity: Organize to Optimize Your Daily Routine 2 - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #218

06 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Living 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 s...

Well Begun is Half Done: Organize to Optimize Your Daily Routine - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #217

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Living 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 s...

Time to Hit the Road: Plan, Prepare, and Pack for Low-Stress Travel - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #216

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Leisure travel seems to be booming again—industry forecasts indicate that vacation travel is likely to return to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2...

A Brighter Emotional Landscape: Declutter for Positive Change - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #215

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Many 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...

Declutter to Go: Strategies for Move Planning, Packing, and Moving - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #214

29 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An impending move sharpens the urgency of eliminating stuff you no longer use, want, or need. Would you rather purge through careful, calm decisions, ...

Tangled Up in Knots: Creative Problem-Solving for Stubborn Projects - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #213

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes 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....

Mindful Shopping: Don’t Let Retail Therapy Add to Your Clutter - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #212

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Shopping is a source of entertainment, fun, and relaxation for many people. But “retail therapy” becomes a problem if it contributes to the clutte...

Down, But Not Out: The Clutter Fairy Guide to Downsizing - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #211

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Moving 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 posse...

Ask Us Anything: Answers to Your Questions, Plus Ultra-short Topics - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #210

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Did the pandemic change the rules for keeping clothes? What’s a practical storage solution for a journal collection? And how does Ed’s (kitchen) g...

Your Best and Your Worst: Household Sweet Spots and Problem Areas - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #209

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Some spaces and categories of stuff in our homes are relatively easy to declutter and organize, but some are constant sources of struggle. What lesson...

Vicious Cycle: Clutter as a Symptom and Cause of Negative Emotions - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #208

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Negative emotions complicate and compound the difficulty of managing our clutter. Guilt, shame, fear, grief, anger, and other painful feelings reduce ...

How Much Lining Does an Empty Nest Need? and Other Good Questions - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #207

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An audience member asked, “How much should you keep for your ‘little birdies’ while they’re testing their wings?” There are difficult decisi...

Recognize and Avoid the Slippery Slope that Leads Back to Clutter - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #206

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An 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...

It’s the Little Things: The Organizing Challenges of Small Items - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #205

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do you sweat the small stuff? Little things can cause some of our biggest organizing headaches: spice jars, tiny bottles and tubes of notions and poti...

Look Good on Paper: Control the Influx and Manage What You Keep - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #204

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Paper is a plentiful source of clutter—and frustration—for many people. Even though our digital lives offer us more options than ever for “going...

Convenience vs. Clarity | Avoiding Consumerism | Cluttered Siblings - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #203

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join us for another “Ask Us Anything” episode. We’ll answer viewer and listener questions and discuss short topics suggested by our audience in ...

Spring Is in the Air: Leap into Cleaning with a Plan for Success - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #202

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This 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 draf...

Love Me, Love My Clutter: Organizing Styles and Relationships - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #201

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We 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 dist...

Why We Procrastinate and What We’re Planning to Do About It…Later - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #200

06 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why 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...