Survey #257—Full Response from Lise
| 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”? | Over the years, I realized that a lot of items I deemed necessary or important really are not. Less stuff = more space, time & freedom. Currently, my threshold for "clutter" is very low... I would like to be a minimalist, but it is unrealistic. Releasing of sentimental items have improved. However, I still cannot let go of certain things and I don't know why. |
| 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 has become easier over the years to declutter - practice makes almost perfect. Clothing is the easy category. Sentimental is the hard category. |
| 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 have had several influences through the years however; it was seeing their struggles with clutter and disorganization. As a child I played in my grandparent's basement a mini maze of shelves stacked with boxes, "treasures" of potential possibilities, and perceived value. I felt claustrophobic. Awaiting for the walls of things to tumble down on top of me. Flashes of Humpty Dumpty and old cardboard boxes falling on my head but no king's horse's or king's men to rescue a kid trapped in a musty basement. I do not want to live my life full of unnecessary things ready to tumble down on or trip anyone. The goal is to avoid my survivors asking, "Why, in the world did she keep this?". |
| 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? | Please clean up your messes and put your things away. |
| 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. | What item did you declutter that was difficult to part with? |
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