Survey #258—Full Response from C
| What useful decluttering or organizing strategies or methods did you take away from the book? | one doesn't have to take everything out to declutter a space. ( a la Marie Kondo) It's best to have a place for everything. Also, the question to know where to put something is: where would I look for it first? |
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| What parts or aspects of the book did you find difficult to grasp or challenging to apply to your home or situation? | . |
| Please share your favorite quotations or key ideas and concepts from this book. | as in the first question: one can start uncluttering in a small space too. Not everything (of a category) has to be done at once or in one go. |
| White suggests a decluttering process that requires making a final decision about each item (keep, trash, or donate) and placing the item in its appropriate home right away rather than into a “keep pile” or “keep box” for later organizing. If you’ve used her method, how has the “take it there right now” approach worked for you? What are the pros and cons of her suggested strategy? | I sort of use her method: I use trays/baskets when decluttering /tidying one room. Each tray is designated for items that have to go to that particular room. Since walking is a bit difficult for me, it saves me many steps. When done tidying, I take each tray to the room and place it there, and start procedure again from that next room (Some trays stay empty sometimes) When I notice that I am always taking an item back from one room to another room, I figure out that it really should have a place in that first room (or get a duplicate if really logical to do so) . |
| A big part of White’s decluttering philosophy is the “container concept”—the idea of setting firm limits on the containers you use to hold your stuff, where “containers” are understood to mean the boxes, bins, racks, baskets, drawers, cabinets, shelves, etc., that you use to hold stuff, as well as the rooms that must contain the containers—and then decluttering to fit those limits. If you’ve used her method, how has the “container concept” helped or hindered your decluttering? What are the pros and cons of her methodology? Are there areas or categories of stuff for which it works better than others? | It has worked for shoes and linens. Also somewhat for house plants: if no more shelf space, something has to go. Also after DH retired, an over supply of stationary items had to be donated: DH saw there was no more space in the desk drawers. |
| White suggests following the “visibility rule”: Start every session of decluttering in the most visible places in your home. If you’ve used her method, how has the “visibility rule” helped or hindered your decluttering? What are the pros and cons of her suggested approach? | yes, I always start tidying/decluttering in the public rooms (to be visitor ready= akin to what FlyLady says too) Unfortunately we have a room full of delayed decisions ( DD's former bedrm) and we just shut the door making it all "invisible" . |
| 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 will the next book discussion be? Will you share this episode and survey results with Dana? |
| Future topics | Delaying decisions quandaries |
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