Survey #257—Full Response from Marnie
| 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’m less likely to tolerate it now, the older I get the more pretty stuff I want so I know I have to get rid of the not so pretty stuff. I’m more likely now to actually see unused items as clutter, before I always worried about needing it someday. |
| 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? | easier to declutter but harder to organize what’s left. I’m not very good at decorating even though I love pretty things but have a hard time making them work in my spaces. Even organizing utilitarian items is a challenge |
| 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? | Husband and mother both want to keep everything, though they are doing better. But still very challenging, the garage is so bad hubs will simply go buy another item rather than looking for the one he knows he has. Mom will not throw anything away and routinely keeps tiny bits of leftover food (especially canned foods) even when it’s not enough to make another meal. Fridge is always crammed |
| 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? | My husband to help declutter the garage and haul off the stuff that needs to go to the dump |
| 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. | Any thoughts on saving/storing items for emergency situations? Storms, nuclear winter, that sort of thing |
| Future topics | planning a major move in the next six months, i’ve watched your moving videos they’ve been very helpful! Maybe some thoughts / help with multiple generations living in one house, I feel like that’s happening a lot now especially post pandemic. |
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