Survey #180 Response from Suzanne
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| 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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| 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. | I get really stuck and often make little progress when dealing with « the random, the small random, and the one-of’s that I just can’t figure out where to place or store but also how would I remember where I would place these ». Many seem to defy a category, or the right category or how I would remember the category I come up with. A lot of thinga-ma-jigs. So many of these caught up in sweep bags and leftover stuff from sorting that I don’t see a reason to let go. This random also includes items that you know belong with something but you just can’t remember what. Example: I came across a funny-looking clip that had some kind of little red ball attached. Well I got brave and binned it. One week later, I kid you not, I discovered it was the special clip to hold the candy thermometer up in a pot. Well now I’m stuck with a very long thermometer in a special bespoke case and the thermometer is now useless to me and that and the case should be binned. Random items, grr. |
| 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. | Oops, kind of answered about the random and one-off’s in previous question. I can add the volume of these make it hard to deal with for each of the what’s this, the oh I know what this is but not where that other thing is till I come across it as I declutter, and all the where should this go items. Frustrates me. |
| What’s your favorite thing to listen to while decluttering? | The most effective is silence for best progress in decluttering and second maybe binaural beats or some sound piece from the free version of insight timer. |
| 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). | Hmm I can’t think of any right now but I do like them when I hear them. |
| 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). | Do either of you have decluttering theme dreams? I don’t know why but I had my first one about 2 weeks ago and 2 since. Yes it does have me wondering what my brain is up to after all these decades. |
| Future topics | Fear of not being able to replace a decluttered item if I one day need it again. I do not subscribe to thé if it’s under $20 so called rule. When one’s income is low and fixed and the price of items just keep going up, being under $20 is not a good enough reason. Far too many items under $10 became items of $15-20 just in the pre-Covid to 2023 period. |
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