Survey #257—Full Response from C
| 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”? | As a teen my room was messy, not cluttered. Perhaps my mother got rid of superfluous stuff. I can't remember, but as a child we moved so often that many of my things never appeared again at the new place. As a young adult I didn't have enough money or stuff to create clutter, plus I moved often. When our daughter arrived and we needed to be frugal I took in or bought a bit too much due to insecurity, frequenting flea markets for bargains. Then came the various "inheritances" of all sorts. It was at a time when I had little time to decide on these. Items linger(ed) on. Clutter is when I have no place to put things or can't find things anymore. |
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| 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? | ha! a lot depends on what is going on in my life. Very easy at times, extremely difficult at others, but looking back, yes, decision making is easier as I get older: I think "what can be of use or necessity in the next 15 years?" |
| 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? | In the past it was my mother, then my auntie. I learned later on that my father was a packrat, probably because how the war took everything away from him. My husband's habit of just leaving things out drives me crazy some days. But he can declutter well when the mood strikes him. (seldom) He says often he has better things to do with the rest of his life than to bother with decluttering. We argue that we cannot leave all the stuff for our daughter or his siblings to declutter, nor will we be able to make good decisions on valuables when we get even older. |
| 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? | I should ask myself to stop scrolling the internet so much and allocate half an hour each day to organize and prepare items for donation and/or auction. |
| 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. | would you consider having a guest on your show, someone else you know from NAPO for instance? |
| Future topics | emergency preparations: <-a review, and additions to the list. |
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