Survey #236 Full Response from Anonymous user
| Pronouns | She/her |
|---|---|
| Describe a collection or category of items in your home that you’re worried might have crossed over into “too many” or “too much.” | Pictures on my phone, primarily of my cats, saved in the icloud and then uploaded to google photos. Had to increase my google storage which now costs $15-plus per month. Just haven't had time to clean out the pics. |
| For the category or collection described above, what factor(s) contribute to your assessment of the stash as excessive? | I don't even have time to look at the saved digital pics, much less categorize and thin them out. |
| For the category or collection described previously, what would you consider a reasonable limit? Your answer may take the form of a precise number, a volume of space, a budget, a time commitment, or any other metric that makes sense to you. Optional: Explain how you arrived at this answer. | Not sure about the digital size but no more than $5 per month of google photos storage. |
| Describe something that you keep in your space because it reminds you of a better time in your life or a fond memory, even though you might otherwise consider it unnecessary or excessive. | a few sentimental gifts or letters from loved ones |
| 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. | I started working from home during the pandemic and share a small apartment with two roommates, one of whom is visiting her family in another country for a few months. I'm desperately trying to clean out "my stuff" in our shared room, which I let her occupy when she's here. I just use one of the two closets, but my years of "stuff" (mostly things I inherited from my family members who have all since passed) fills my little closet from floor to ceiling and desperately needs to be cleaned out. I can only go thru it so fast and it's highly sentimental, from family members who passed in past decade and I have heavy depression, unable to deal with all the grief. My emotional bandwidth is quite low now as I have a stressful job as well. Just feeling pushed to make progress before my roommate returns and takes over the room again. In other words, I need to go thru a lot of highly emotional "stuff" on a very tight timeline when I'm not ready. Any suggestions would be helpful! Thank you! |
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