Welcome to the Clutter issue of the Professional Organizers Blog Carnival! Nearly all organizers are experts in some aspect of clutter, so it’s no surprise that this is our biggest Carnival to date. Make yourself comfortable because there are a lot of new colleagues for you to meet!

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Clare Kumar became a Professional Organizers Blog Carnival Star Blogger this month with her post, Clear Clothing Clutter and Help Charities. Please join me in congratulating Clare, and remember that you too can become a Star Blogger by participating in 10 or more editions of the Professional Organizers Blog Carnival.

Participating for the first time this month are MaryJo Monroe with It’s party time! 8 ways to get rid of clutter by hosting a party, Lurlene Anderson with Organizing Just For YOU!,  Sheri Bruneau with What Type of Clutter Do You Have? and Deanne Kelleher with An Exit Strategy for Clutter. It’s great to have you on board!

Don’t go away just yet, because there are lots more great blog posts for you to read! Always remember that engaging with other bloggers by following them on Twitter and commenting on their blogs is a good way to grow your network and drive traffic to your own blog.

Nancy Borg – The Origin of Clutter and the Simple Steps to Conquer it

Hazel Thornton – Is it Clutter?

Jacquie Ross – 10 Tips for Busy Moms on How to Keep a Clutter-Free Home

Deb Lee – Armadillos Are Dangerous and Ugly, Just Like Clutter

Jonda Beattie – Homeless Items In Your Home

Ellen Delap – Clutter: A Hoarder’s Success Story

Lelah Baker-Rabe – Common clutter areas and what to do about them

Janice Russell – What Does Your Clutter Weigh?

Janine Adams – Standards of Clutter

Leslie Josel – Clutter: Clean and Clear

Elaine Shannon – Clutter = Stuck Energy

Ramona Creel – Is Your Life Too Cluttered?

Linda Samuels – Releasing Mind Clutter

Natalie Conrad – Do You Have Time Clutter?

Lisa Montanaro – What is Clutter?

Julie Bestry – Paper Manners Matter: Cut Card Clutter & Store Social Stationery

Shelley Molitor – Find New Meaning in the Clutter

Sue West – Do Your Surroundings Become You?

Audrey Cupo – Five Rules to Follow to Eliminate the Clutter

Rivka Caroline – Clutter is just a pile of delayed decision making

Lauren Giammarco – Control that Clutter!

Tracy Hoth – What to Keep? What to Purge?

I don’t know about you, but I’m having this incredible urge to declutter all of a sudden! :)

The December Professional Organizers Blog Carnival will be about 2011 Conference Highlights.  Whether you were at the POC Conference this past weekend, NAPO, ICD, MARCPO, Orvention, or any other conference this year, we’d love to read about it! You have until noon EST on December 12 to submit your post.