Survey #257—Full Response from Anita
| 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 definitely want less clutter and ‘things’ as I’ve got older. |
| 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? | Yes I think it gets easier but I still get stuck by where things should be donated…. I don’t know for sure but I think in the Uk it’s more difficult to donate to charity shops as they don’t accept a lot of things. I think as you get older the reality of your past times and hobbies gets clearer. Therefore you can get rid of things you know you’ll no longer use again. My husband and I agreed we’re unlikely to go camping in a tent again….so we were able to get rid of 2 tents. |
| 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 in a family of neurodivergent people that seem to like to buy everything to do with the particular hobby they have at the time. This means a lot of clutter. But as it is other people’s I can’t really get rid of it. Also my one daughter still lives in an extremely small flat so I still have a space dedicated to to all her stuff. |
| 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? | That’s difficult because it is who they are…some of all of their things relflects their personalities. My family have a lot of creativity and art work which I feel has to stay. I think we have reached a point where whereby my husband and I buy less for each other and enjoy time out instead. Although I have got him to go through bookshelves asking if I could get rid of any and he usually piles up just my books!!! So a small change would be picking his own!!!!! |
| 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. | Just to add my daughter wouldn’t be able to afford a storage unit. I really can’t think of any questions right now. One thing that I might struggle with in the next few years is my elderly mother has lots of possibly expensive pottery figurines etc. How do I get out of my head that they worth something and I struggle in my head as there are so many antique programmes and if we got rid of any then it feels like it would be throwing money away? But I’m not the sort of person that sells stuff either. |
| Future topics | I think I asked before but not sure if topic covered: |
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