Survey #174 Response from Amanda
| Pronouns | She/her |
|---|---|
| Which member(s) of your household support or contribute to your decluttering or organizing efforts, and how? (For example, “My husband keeps the home office and his workshop organized.”) | My partner helps with big projects and organizes help for heavy lifting. He's often a reasonable sounding board. |
| Which member(s) of your household frustrate, foil, interrupt, or otherwise complicate your decluttering or organizing efforts, and how? (For example, “My preteen child picks through the donation box to retrieve items even after we’ve reached agreement to get rid of them.”) | My partner (it's just the two of us for now) likes to sell things rather than donate... Not a terrible thing to do, but not fast or easy. |
| If you were to wish for one change of behavior from someone—or everyone—in your household with respect to clutter, what change would you wish for? (For example, “My preteen child picks through the donation box to retrieve items even after we’ve reached agreement to get rid of them.”) | I wish my partner had a better way to deal with his office than the current "dump and run" strategy. He deserves a better organizational system but I'm not sure what kind would work for him. |
| Describe an item about which you have a strong disagreement with someone else in your household over whether or not it deserves a place in your home. (For example, “My mother’s 30 years of TV Guide magazines.”) | My 1992 Encyclopedia Britannica - to my partner it's outdated (true lol), to me it represents my parents' dedication to my education. |
| Here’s your chance to ask Gayle and Ed any question you’re curious about. It need not be related to this survey’s topic(s). If we think that your question—and our answer—might be useful or instructive to The Clutter Fairy Weekly audience, we’ll share them in an upcoming episode. | Any suggestions as to parting with large complicated collections? I have 3 large boxes of stamps, collected by my dad and uncle between the 40s and the 70s. There are a few well organized albums, along with oodles of uncategorized stamps in envelopes. I don't know much about them, nor am I interested in looking at much other than the albums themselves (which I'd like to keep). Nevertheless, I'm stressed because they were considered important and valuable to the loved ones who collected them. I feel obligated to store them in a temperature and humidity controlled part of my house, which means the entire floor of a bedroom closet is devoted to stamps I haven't even looked at closely. Are there people who buy these kinds of things? Accept as donations? Or do all the other daughters, grandchildren, etc besides me just throw these things away? |
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