Survey #180 Response from Kathryn
| Pronouns | She/her |
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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. | Nope. You pretty much covered it... |
| 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. | Hubby left Dec 24, 2021 — yeah, you can probably tell that I'm not bitter at all; okay, at least I'm working on it — anyway, he believed in keeping years of food in storage. He's from a farming family. For them having at least 2yrs of food was critical to surviving years where crops failed. We settled on a year's worth of items. After he left, I couldn't bring myself to cook. Being Hispanic, food is love. It represents family. My family was gone. Hubby left, kids grew up and, most, moved out of state. I felt so alone. I ate out mostly. Then came a year of medical shitstorm: 3 strokes, 3 concussions, whiplash, neurological issues, covid, and a brain tumor. A lot of the year, I could barely function. I couldn't cook. Now the canned food has expired. Yeah, I keep using it. It's canned. I hardly use grains or the huge bags of dried fruit and nuts. I can't bring myself to waste the money spent on food, even though the food itself is probably already wasted. And my refrigerator? It's like a Tetris game...but that's another story. |
| What’s your favorite thing to listen to while decluttering? | Quiet, mostly. |
| Future topics | Gifting is my love language. After the despair I felt in 2022 from a fractured marriage and the multiple medical hits, I'm behind over a 1.5yrs of DELIVERING on the gifts. Food items / snacks, which I dearly love to give as thinking of you tokens...expired. Are they trashed? Nope. Other things, like the bar-b-que stuff I got for my son and son-in-law 2yrs ago? Still good and still stuck in my guest bedroom. Now the season is ending — both live up north — I've missed another year. HELP! |
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