Survey #258—Full Response from Anonymous user
| What useful decluttering or organizing strategies or methods did you take away from the book? | A lot! Container concept, The No Mess Method is genius! |
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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? | None that I can think of. |
| Please share your favorite quotations or key ideas and concepts from this book. | I loved the crapalanche. There was a lot that amused me. Everything is a container was great. Oh, and: You can keep anything but not everything. Also the question: "Where would I look for it first?" Extremely helpful when answered and followed without much thinking. Instinct is so important. |
| 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 love, love, love that strategy because I can stop at any time and the situation is always better. |
| 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? | Well, I love the concept but I do make a few exceptions. Sometimes I find a new container (place) for stuff of a category that I do want to keep e.g. scarves or hand-knitted socks. But in general I do follow that concept. Mostly I combine Dana K. Whites ideas with what I've learned with the clutterfairy (you). I reflect why I want to use something or if I'm just reluctant to let something go because of grief over the fact that I can't do certain things anymore or that my life has changed or is in another season (circumstances etc.) I think her methodology lacks gender awareness. She mostly addresses women or rather she never speaks about dividing household tasks. Very practical system overall but no feminism or gender equality in sight. Never any inclusion of LGBTQ or talking about the influence of culture/race. That is what I don't like. And that is why I LOVE you clutterfairy-teamsters! Yay! |
| 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? | I think this rule is valid but I don't need it because I followed that already. I see more to the fact that I want to move comfortably in my living space. |
| Future topics | Getting important papers in order (will, insurance, contracts etc.) |
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