Survey #257—Full Response from Cynthia
| 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? | Digital photos are difficult to manage. I don’t enjoy computer files because I can’t see where they go. Books are easier to manage because so many things are available online and through apps. |
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| 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 would say that my mother had the biggest influence on my attitude towards clutter. First, there were sentimental attachments that she assigned to most anything that came into the house. I also felt like I should have a story about every item and although my room filled up with things, I couldn’t get rid of them because she didn’t want me to as a child. Then when she passed away, she had accumulated many things that she never wanted to get rid of. I saw how it made the house not as friendly and easy to keep clean. |
| 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? | For my husband to deal with the paper as it comes in. Pay the bill…file the documents….as soon as he reads it act on it. |
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