The Clutter Fairy Weekly #117
Tight Spots, Tiny Budgets: Outfitting Dorm Rooms and Apartments
Graduation season is about to start, and parents everywhere will be scrambling to launch their graduates into college life, often with little cash and strict space limitations. Even if college isn’t in the plans, your kids may need help establishing a space of their own. In episode #117 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers low-cost, space-saving suggestions for organizing starter apartments, dorm rooms, and other compact spaces.
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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.
Good Things in Small Packages
This week’s assignment is to address a small-space organizing problem that you face:
- If you’ll be launching a graduate into college or apartment living (or if you yourself plan to move to a smaller space), start now on your move plan. Find out how much space you’ll have available, and start a checklist and shopping list of items that the new space will need.
- If you’ve sent a child out into the world already but have unfinished business in the bedroom they’ve vacated, do some work this week on that room. Design storage (or use existing storage) for left-behind items that don’t need to be immediately accessible.
- If neither of the situations above apply to you, reflect on whether you have another small-space challenge that needs attention. What’s the least-adequate, most-congested part of your home? Could you apply any small-space strategies we’ve suggested to make better use of that tiny closet or minuscule powder room?
For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.
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