The Clutter Fairy Weekly

It’s a part of the human condition that our stuff tends to become an extension of ourselves. Just like our experiences and actions, our things feel like a part of us. When stuff gets tangled up in our self-image, it’s hard to let go. In episode #27 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, talks about how the lines between...

Do you find yourself living in a very small space? Efficiency apartments, dorm rooms, mobile homes, the wildly popular “tiny houses,” and other compact living spaces create special organizing issues. In episode #26 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers strategies for solving the problems that come with living in...

In episode #25 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers tips for finding motivation and creating momentum on a long-term organizing project when the progress feels slow in coming. The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life...

In episode #24 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers a strategy for balancing the role of the guest room as a place to host visitors with all the other ways we (and our cats) use our multipurpose spaces. The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space...

In episode #23 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, unpacks the clutter issues of deep storage—backyard sheds, storage units, parents’ houses, second homes, attics, and basements. She also answers a viewer question about creativity in the kitchen. The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podcast designed to help...

In episode #22 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses sources of kitchen clutter and offers ideas for planning or reclaiming your organized kitchen. She also talks cookbooks and suggests strategies for long-term food storage. The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podcast designed to help you clear your...

In episode #21 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, breaks down the causes of restroom clutter and offers a step-by-step strategy for reclaiming bathroom space. She also revisits tricks for managing cast-off clothing. Take Back Day link mentioned in this episode: https://takebackday.dea.gov/ The Clutter Fairy Weekly is...

In episode #20 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, suggests strategies for transforming your master bedroom from a stress-inducing mess into a peaceful sanctuary. Viewers introduce her to the buzzwords “floordrobe,” “floorage,” and “fledroom.” The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podcast designed to help you...

In episode #19 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers a step-by-step strategy for reclaiming the usable space in your garage—or other storage space of last resort. She also talks about examining the rationalizations we use for keeping too much stuff, such as “I’m keeping this for my family.” Bagster® link mentione...

In episode #18 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers a step-by-step strategy for organizing your home office space. She also answers viewer and listener questions. The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of w...

In episode #17 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, reflects on ways people are making the best of the COVID-19 lockdown. She also answers viewer and listener questions. The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of w...

In episode #16 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, describes potential life-changing effects of decluttering—small (and large) ways in which your life might be different after organizing. She also discusses the delicate balance between stuff from your past and the needs of your present life. The Clutter Fairy Weekly i...

In episode #15 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers strategies for expediting your sorting and packing project when you’re under pressure to move house in a short timeframe. She also revisits self-talk for an uncluttered lifestyle. The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podcast designed to help you clear...

In episode #14 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, tackles the question, “Why, when I have so much time on my hands, am I still not motivated to organize?” She identifies sources of our resistance to organizing and ways to overcome it. The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podcast designed to help you clear y...

In episode #13 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses strategies for keeping your organizing projects on track in challenging times. She offers advice for minimizing stress and increasing cooperation for all of us who’ve found ourselves suddenly homebound. The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podcast...

In episode #12 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers strategies for getting paper piles under control in preparation for filing tax returns. She shares advice for clearing your paper backlog and creating systems to manage paper on a day-to-day basis. The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podcast designed...

In episode #11 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, suggests rethinking the way we talk about ourselves and our clutter in order to shift our habits and behaviors. She also talks about more creative uses for zip-lock bags in organizing. The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podcast designed to help you clear y...

In episode #10 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers tips for organizing tight spaces—stuffed closets, packed attics, and bulging basements. She also talks about a few of her favorite organizing tools and materials. The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podcast designed to help you clear your clutter and...

In episode #9 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, discusses alternatives to buying more stuff, such as borrowing from or sharing items with family and friends; making use of lending libraries, rental stores, and maker spaces; and adjusting our thinking about what we need to own. The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webc...

In episode #8 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, responds to viewer and listener questions about dealing with other people’s input on your organizing projects, reducing your collections, and more. The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your hom...

In episode #7 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, tackles digital clutter—the accumulation of data beyond what we can reasonably keep and manage. She talks about common sources of digital clutter to watch out for and offers strategies for getting them under control. The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podca...

In episode #6 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explores the “clutter life-cycle”—a way of framing the psychological issues related to clutter in terms of the decision-making that happens at various phases in the life-cycle of a possession. She also responds to viewer questions and feedback and reviews the 2018 book...

In episode #5 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, examined the situations that lead us to downsize and offered guidance on key areas of our homes and lives where we can look for opportunities to downsize collections. She also responded to viewer questions and feedback and offered a Tip of the Week on “the math of down...

In episode #2 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offered strategies for using a daily planner to keep your organizing projects moving forward. We also revisited the topics of “story-editing” and cultivating small habits, offered our Tip of the Week (“One in, one out”), and gave a quick preview of an upcoming topic: C...

In episode #3 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, explored clutter-related issues that arise with aging. She suggested strategies that you and your family can adopt to ease the burden of future clutter. Gayle also addressed viewer questions about how to get started decluttering when the project seems overwhelming and...