Survey #247—Full Response from Anonymous user
| Please select the statement that BEST describes your paper backlog. | I have a massive backlog of paper sorting and filing, and I can’t see any end in sight. |
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| Please select the statement that BEST describes your ongoing relationship with incoming paper. | I tend to let mail and other papers pile up, then deal with them in one Herculean effort. |
| Describe the types or categories of paper clutter that you find the most challenging to sort, purge, and organize. | Papers associated with things I want think about maybe research before making a decision. I can’t figure out what to do with all this and cycle through it often enough to purge no longer relevant items or items no longer relevant. The collection just grows. Papers I want to read. Even the collection of articles I tore out of magazines is a huge overwhelming stack. I seem to never get back to them and eventually just start indiscriminately tossing. These categories makeup the landslide on my desk. |
| Please complete one or more of the following statements: “I struggle with paper clutter because ___.” “I would have an easier time managing paper if only ___.” “The accumulation of paper in my home makes me feel ___.” | I struggle with paper clutter because… I have a large collection of unread books. I consider these paper. I don’t have enough shelf space for them so I have multiple tall stacks of boxes. I can’t find a book when I want to read it. BTW, I have 3000 books on my Kindle. I love to read just don’t make enough time for it. I don’t have enough storage space to neatly organize what I need to keep (I have minimized a lot by purging tax files and keeping a lot stored digitally on my computer. All of which is well organized) and what I want to keep as re papers about planned, in progress and possible future projects, articles to read and paper associated with ‘things to think about or research’. It feels like a never ending project I have no hope of completing. It’s exhausting and I get tired of spending hours in my home office. |
| 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 have a small collection of receipts i set aside associated with some purchases. These might be for appliances or furniture due to the dollar amount, fine jewelry, expensive personal items, or art. I started this collection after a home burglary during which a designer purse was stolen and my insurance wanted proof I owned the item when I filed my claim. I have never heard anyone consider this category of receipt retention. I consider this support for a pathetically incomplete home inventory. What suggestions might you have for this kind of paper? |
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