Survey #257—Full Response from Leslie
| 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 absolutely have a lower threshold for clutter as I've gotten older and been on the minimalism and organization journey. The less I have, the less I want. |
| 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? | It's easier over time. Hard Categories are recipes and medications. I watch a cooking video and quickly jot down the ingredients on a piece of paper and eventually have tons of these little papers floating around. Recipe organizing is so tedious. |
| 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 parents. One became a compulsive shopper last few years before he died. My mom has a hoarded house plus four storage units full. She resists letting anything go, says she will sell items but not willing to do the work of selling. Won't let me help either. It inspired me to purposely own less. One of Dana K White's books helped. It said regarding parents stuff: "value the person and its not your house, not your stuff, and only the people that live in the house get a vote on what stays or goes" Mom is 79 now, so I don't expect much change as she doesn’t think it's a problem, but a walker or wheelchair couldn't be used if needed in the current condition of the house. It overwhelming to think about what I will have to deal with one day. |
| If you could ask for one small change in someone else’s behavior that would improve the state of your home, what would it be? | N/A, I live alone |
| Future topics | Tedious (to me) micro organizing small items or areas. For example: recipes, jewelry, night stand drawers that tend to have a lot of small items like chapstick,Lotion, flashlight, books, papers, etc. |
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