Survey #257—Full Response from Lela
| 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”? | The older I get, the less I can tolerate clutter. Every item around me is something I must protect and maintain, and I’m tired of repairing things. With less stuff, it’s so much easier to keep everything clean and fresh and in working order. |
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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? | It’s easier in the sense that I’m not as attached to material items as I used to be. It’s harder in the sense that our house is pretty streamlined & I can’t find much anymore that we don’t use or need. I keep trying to declutter, though. The category of mail and paperwork is easy now because I do a lot online and I contact every company who sends me junk mail and tell them to take me off their mailing list. |
| 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? | As my daughter has grown from a child to a young adult, she has an easier time decluttering her personal items. She still has stuff at my house, though! |
| 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? | The only real obstacle left for me is that my daughter lives in a small apartment. If and when she buys a home, I will get the last of her stuff out of my house. That isn’t a small change, though! |
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