Survey #249—Full Response from Nina
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| Please share your suggestions for unconventional places to take donated items (for example, a local florist’s shop for empty flower vases). If you mention a specific business or organization, please include your city, state, province, region, and/or country in your answer. | I belong to a women's support group with many young women. I'll be bringing some tops I've never worn, and a new address book and a blank journal that belonged to my mother. The tops don't fit (I need to declutter some gained weight!) and these women like to journal. I'm hoping someone will use the address book (although everyone has phones to keep track of that sort of thing). What isn't taken, I'll bring to Neat Repeats in Orland Park, IL. They help support a women's shelter. |
| Describe an activity or interest for which you acquire far more supplies or materials than you tend to use over a reasonable period of time. | Gardening. Yow. I teach horticulture and garden design classes and I write for various outlets. I have 23 shelves of gardening books. And I'm 71—still working a 35-hour week. I have a lot of energy (but not always the emotional energy I need to get rid of stuff!) |
| 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. | How much stuff should I really have on my desk? I move things to a drafting board behind me and shuffle things back and forth. I often find it's hard to find current things that I need for my work. |
| Future topics | I have a container full of old journals, calendars, cards and other things. I'm stymied about what to get rid of. I use a timer for many tasks around the house (I think it helps with ADHD—LOL). I could set it for 30 minutes but once I start reading these things, well…. What would you say to someone who wants to declutter decades of memorabilia like this? |
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