Survey #253—Full Response from Anonymous user
| Which of the following statements describe your living situation with respect to a dining room and dining-room furniture? |
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| If you checked “Other” or wish to elaborate on your answers, please feel free to do so in the space below. | We rarely use the dining room for anything at all, except holiday dinners and occasionally use the table as a desk for business paperwork. The room goes goes to waste most days. |
| Please complete the following statement: “Members of my household and I eat most of our meals _____.” | In front of the tv or in our bedrooms |
| Please complete the following statement: “When I want to entertain guests for a meal, we usually eat _____.” | On our kitchen island |
| What feelings or memories—positive, negative, or in-between—does the phrase “dining room” evoke for you? How have your attitudes, beliefs, or practices around dining and entertaining changed over time? What impact, if any, do dining and entertaining have on the clutter in your space? | I am an adult in my 30s living in my parents house because I can't afford to live elsewhere. My mom refuses to let the rest of us in the house us use the dining room for anything useful, we have to keep it as a rarely used formal dining room. "Dining room" evokes negative memories of my mom losing her mind over making the complicated holiday meals, family drama, awkward dinner conversations, and the tons of money they blew on the fine china and flatware that has to be handwashed and takes up a whole bureau in the dining room and our entire linen closet upstairs. We never even have guests over anymore but my mom won't even let us reduce the amount of fine china we keep |
| 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. | Dealing with decluttering regret- I feel like this topic gets brushed over by most of the decluttering channels, but I have gotten rid of some stuff I really wish I hadn't, and can not replace. |
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