Survey #180 Response from Marsh

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PronounsShe/her
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.)
  • Family heirlooms or other inherited items
  • Financial paperwork
  • Items associated with a person/relationship
  • Materials related to unfinished projects
  • Photographs (printed or digital)
If the category of stuff you find most difficult to work with wasn’t included in the list for the previous question, please describe it here.Sporting equipment, avenues of items used for former interests/competitions/awards that one will
no longer do. Mostly, what to do with the awards?
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.Feel such an emotional charge of "Losing" ? a former identity of one self. Closing the dreams of a lifetime that will no longer be. Seems that keeping the stuff around to touch or hold or look out keeps the fear away yet the stuff is IN THE WAY of my more desired, financial, organic, physical and simpler life.
What’s your favorite thing to listen to while decluttering?Tina Turner up LOUD or if raining/snowing outside = TCF Podcast's or even just my own quiet thoughts.
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).Clutter or Crackers In My Soup
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).Dear Gayle and Ed:
What's on the other side? Meaning we clear our clutter, clean the space, stuff is re-cycled, up-cycled, donated, trashed, organized and put away.
Then what? There is this Noid or Void space whether it be emotional, physical, psychological, financial and so on Different for each of us and all of us yet...
Such a internal push to fill it back up...Help! Thanks.
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Clutter Crackers In My Soup
I love to eat my soup with lots of hand crumbled, salted crackers piled on top yet
when I open my cracker box finding it empty, I become emotionally anxious because
I have to make decisions now. Do I eat my soup without crackers?
Do I let soup cool in fridge to eat after rushing out to purchase more crackers?
I feel a visceral fear similar to the void left in spaces I have successfully cleared from prior clutter. I am realizing the difference here is in the fear of the decisions I alone must make.
Decisions can be as simple as eating my soup without crackers for it is just a bowl of soup. Carrying this feeling further I am sensing a new, inner clarity for now I am ok with the space just left empty.
......"decisions I alone must make.".....

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