Survey #180 Response from Anonymous user
| Select the categories of clutter that you find most difficult to work on. (Since we discovered the technical issue preventing some users from answering the previous question, we’re also offering this simpler format.) |
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| For the category of stuff you find hardest to declutter or organize, please tell us about how or why this type of stuff trips you up. | I find it hard to let go of personal items, items of value (procrastinating the selling process), personal notes, books, etc. I use the onion method to do so, and whenever I "peel another layer" I find objects that I used to cherish, but in the meantime have lost all meaning for me. Then it's becomes to let go of them. What helped me from the Clutter Fairy advice, is the idea that not all sentimental items of a category need to be kept, only the most significant ones. Lately, I have "shopped" my sentimental/valuable items/memorabilia and decorated my new appartment with things I want to display. That's been very successful. For instance, I put up a - limited - gallery wall with the black and white children's photographs of my parents and grandparents. My gentle approch works. It's a process. By the way, putting sentimental items to use is an alternative way of decluttering, as opposed to giving something away. By definition, items that are in use and are being enjoyed aren't clutter. Decluttering by transformation! |
| What’s your favorite thing to listen to while decluttering? | Listening to something else distracts me while decluttering. I ask myself questions to guide me in decluttering. |
| Name one or more of your favorite Clutter Fairy-isms (e.g., “thin the herd”) or decluttering and organizing mnemonic devices (e.g., OHIO—Only Handle It Once). | stem the inflow |
| Future topics | As I wrote last week, I'm most interested in what tools or ideas fellow declutterers discovered to be game changers in their decluttering journey. Another topic: Motivation! (I happen to be one of the crazy people who are highly motivated to declutter - mainly because the results are so satisfying.) |
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