Survey #257—Full Response from Summer
| 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”? | As I've gotten older and experienced divorce, several moves, and the passing of my parents, I have had a complete shifting of my view on clutter. Less is less is my mantra. That said, I am by no means a minimalist and struggle regularly to keep clutter under control. |
| 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 is still a challenge to keep my clothing and paper a challenge. I have always struggled and continue to do so. |
| 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? | I am divorced and currently dating a wonderful man. By very deliberate design, we do not live together and have no plan to do so ever. However, his adult daughter, her boyfriend, and their two children are now living in his home. It seems this is a permanent situation. His home had too much clutter already and the addition of this family of four has the house bursting at the seams!! The abundance of stuff has diminished my comfort being in his home and has put a strain on our relationship. |
| 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? | Release the things that no longer serve you. No, your stuff is not worth nearly as much as you tell yourself!! |
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