Survey #225 Response from CHRISTINE
| Pronouns | She/her |
|---|---|
| Which of the following statements best describes your living situation? | I live in a small home where limited space for living and storage tends to cause issues throughout. |
| Describe rooms or areas of your home in which the lack of available space makes living, storage, decluttering, and/or organizing challenging. Be as specific as you can. | Kitchen has no pantry. So have to use one and only coat closet to store extra kitchen items. My house has no entryway. only one small coat closet. Even worse,, when you enter front door the sight line goes right through to the kitchen sink!!!! My" family room" is as small as a walk in closet. so no room for tv in there, or books, etc. so tv is up in a bedroom, and books etc are in living room. which is ok. |
| 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). If we think that your question—and our answer—might be useful or instructive to The Clutter Fairy Weekly audience, we’ll share them in an upcoming episode. | Following your golden holiday decluttering advice, I have been able to almost entirely eliminate all holiday decor that has to be stored. Instead I am celebrating with food and wine, natural decor...like real pinecones, pines, candles. When I want to treat myself to buying something "holiday", it is no longer buy decor. Instead , I just treated myself to better holiday kitchen items, I actually. need during the holidays, . and can use all year.. Like new kitchen dish towels, a quality wood cutting board (to replace the old plastic ones), a very unique wood rolling pin (to make xmas cookies and pies with grandkids), and a better food mill to make applesauce ( to replace my broken one). My question is... have you downsized your holiday decor..and which items? |
| Future topics | How to stop other people from giving you holiday gifts you do not want, and you will have to store. I have even resorted to giving the gift back, unused and after the season is over, as kindly as possible. That seems to work, with most people. But I know it is not "polite". and it is awkward and I dread doing it. But if I do not return the gift, I keep getting the same type of "storage" items every holiday. I even have tried to give hints of what I would like instead...things I can use up , like food or wine, flowers, etc. But some people seem to be shopping- hunting addicted, and want their shopping- hunting game to last for Years, with Me storing their " game." |
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