The Clutter Fairy Weekly #112
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Decluttering Your Home’s Hiding Places
Many of our homes contain black holes that are easy to pack with clutter and even easier to ignore—spare closets, basements, attics, crawlspaces, the cabinets under sinks, etc. In episode #112 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, unpacks the mysteries of hidden spaces and offers strategies for keeping them in our awareness and under control.
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The Weekly Tittle is an exercise designed to focus your attention on a specific space, aspect, or challenge of decluttering and organizing your home. We assign a new tittle in each webcast/podcast, then check on your progress the following week.
Coming Out of the Dark
This week’s assignment is to take inventory of your hidden spaces and to make a plan for excavating the shadiest of your home’s hiding places:
- Jot down a list of places in your home where you know—or at least suspect—that you have hidden clutter. Here’s a sample list to get you started:accessory tray
attic
basement
big furniture (entertainment center, built-in bookcase, china cabinet, wardrobe, desk drawer, coffee table with storage, chest, trunk)
coat closet
crawlspace
freezer
jewelry box
kitchen cabinet (hard-to-access ones)
laundry room cabinet (hard-to-access ones)
linen closet
medicine cabinet
pantry
refrigerator
spare-bedroom closet
toy bins
under the bed
under the bathroom sink
under the kitchen sink
wine cellar! - Highlight or mark with an asterisk the three hiding places that you’ve been ignoring for the longest time.
- Make an appointment with yourself to take a look in one of these black holes and process any clutter that you find.
- Schedule appointments to manage clutter in your other two hidden spaces in the coming weeks.
For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.
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