Survey #180 Response from Chris
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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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| 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. | Photographs are my hardest category. As I sort of phase into the "elder" category in my family and Mom has passed almost all her photos and albums to me (and my brother) already ... it feels like I "have" to keep some of them but I'm uncomfortable with the volume and I'm not detecting much interest from the next generation in these family photos either. I have done a lot of scanning and storing onto flash drives of my own personal precious photos so that if I ever want to print them out I can ... I store these in a heavy duty safe and have some stored online as well. Somehow, it's the older irreplaceable pictures that get me. Yet, no one will want them when I'm gone and it feels ridiculous to keep the tubs of pictures I have left after throwing out all the duplicates and duds. The one heirloom album I put together in which I put all the ancestors and family tree info I wanted to keep feels like something I'm okay with having all my life and whatever happens to it after I'm gone well ... that's okay because I enjoy looking at it from time to time now. I dearly wish I didn't have the volume of pictures left in about 3 medium plastic tubs though. It feels like I'm the end of the line. Complicating this is a long standing estrangement too painful to talk about with my own only child. |
| What’s your favorite thing to listen to while decluttering? | The Clutter Fairy Weekly Podcast |
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