Survey #257—Full Response from Anonymous user
| 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 have a higher threshold for living in a crowded space because the clutter crept in gradually over the years, giving me a higher tolerance for clutter. The clutter feels comfortable and familiar, although, logically, I understand that I will be more comfortable, safer, and get more accomplished without so much stuff. |
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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 is harder to declutter now. Previously, I could choose what I needed and move on to my next adventure. Now, with no future adventures in sight, I want to cling to items which take me back to happier times. |
| 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? | My husband would find free stuff and bring it home. This was fun, so I didn't discourage him, even joined in, being from a waste-not-want-not family. We shopped yard sales and gave yard sales in the early part of our relationship. Our entire home was furnished with stuff that was free or found at yard sales. Decades later, we reached the point where he said we have a "volume problem." We began letting some things go, but he died not long after that. When he died, I discovered that he had filled two huge lockers. The garage was already full. I avoid acquiring stuff now and regularly give things to charity rather than trying to sell them. |
| 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 neighbor, who moved into our no-smoking building after my husband died, would quit smoking and using the heavy chemicals that keep me too sick to function (and killed one of my pets). |
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