Survey #257—Full Response from millie
| Pronouns | She/her |
|---|---|
| How have your ideas, attitudes, and behaviors around clutter changed over the course of your adult life? Do you have a higher or lower threshold for what counts as “clutter”? | I grew up in a messy house in which nothing was thrown away. When I grew up and got my own place, if my things were organized I didn't think of them as clutter -- I thought of them simply as my stuff. However, my STUFF accumulated as I got married and had kids and tried to live a typical, middle-class life in a consumer-driven world. I had to teach myself how to declutter because I didn't grow up in a family that taught me that skill. Otherwise, my house would have turned into the mess I grew up in. Fast forward to being a retiree now, I live a more minimal existence than I've ever lived. I have a low threshhold for what counts as clutter. The advances in technology has shifted my thinking, as has society's more casual attitudes about entertaining. I don't need much to live a happy life. |
| Do you find it easier or harder to declutter and organize as time goes by? Are there categories of stuff that get easier to manage? Are there categories that get harder to manage? | I think it's easier to declutter for me now because of my age (66 years old). I'm in the "letting go stage," although my kids are in the "attaining stage." |
| Think about the person in your life who’s had the most impact on your decluttering and organizing, or the person whose own clutter creates the most impact on you. This may be a spouse, partner, roommate, child, parent, another member of your household, or someone outside your household or family. How have this person’s ideas, attitudes, and behaviors around clutter—or the way their stuff affects you—changed over the course of your relationship? | My spouse has decluttered far more than me. It has definitely made it easy for me to let go of things. |
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