Survey #166 Response from Lela
| Briefly describe who will benefit from your efforts to declutter and get organized, and how they’ll benefit. Think about members of your household, but also about the larger world—e.g., the people who’ll buy your stuff at a garage sale, the shelter residents who’ll get your donations, the next generation of family who’ll carry a lighter load, and so on. | Local people having hard times will benefit because the charity I usually donate to uses their sale proceeds to provide food at the food pantry in the same building. My family & I will benefit from a easily maintained home now & less work for our daughter when we are gone. |
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| Tell us about a memory of a person or incident from the formative years of your life that influenced your attitudes and emotions about belongings, clutter, organizing, or any related subject. (For example: “Grandma’s house was packed to the rafters with stuff.”) | My aunt lived in a filthy hoarded house with dirt-lined paths to walk through in each room. I only visited there a couple of times as a child, but it shocked me because my mother kept our house spotless. |
| What is the strongest memory to which you feel connected by way of an object, such as a souvenir, photo, or keepsake? | My grandmother’s necklace has become to me a symbol of her, in a way. I wore it to my daughter’s college graduation yesterday & told her that her great-grandmother was there in my heart celebrating with us because she would have been so very proud of my daughter’s accomplishments. |
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