Survey #258—Full Response from Lisa
| Pronouns | She/her |
|---|---|
| What useful decluttering or organizing strategies or methods did you take away from the book? | "Take it there now." |
| What parts or aspects of the book did you find difficult to grasp or challenging to apply to your home or situation? | Hmmm. Her concepts work - most challenging, actually getting things being decluttered out the door. Most challenging re her methods actual steps would be using the container concept and choosing what goes to make space within the container for the most valued items. Requires a mindset shift of letting someone else put the item to use. |
| Please share your favorite quotations or key ideas and concepts from this book. | Again, "take it there now." And the concept of you can keep anything, you just can't keep everything. Another key concept of Dana's is the action of looking. The encouragement of "looking" often helps reveal that the pile that has been avoided often surprisingly contains a percent of trash. And sometimes missing items! |
| 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? | "Take it there now" truly does make things better, rather than potentially creating a pile to be dealt with later. "Take it there now" translates into a series of wins... even small wins help build confidence and clarity, and definately helps strengthen decluttering muscles. I'm a fan of the method. |
| 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? | I think the container concept definitely works well for collections of supplies, like sponges, for example. So often things get purchased in excess, especially when we forget we already have extras of particular supplies. I think it does help reign things in for clothing. Coffee cups... the usual culprits. |
| 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? | If only I could apply the visibility rule effectively. I'm someone who perfers things visible so I know what I have and what's in process. I know it would be more calming to declutter visible areas. They tend to get cluttered again. The solution would be to intentional about homes for things. They can be hidden if the designated home is clearly defined. Want to get there, it is a challenge. |
| 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. | Would like to hear from both of you and from others how decluttering has changed things in one's life. What new perspectives have been discovered. What senses/feelings have changed. What mindset shifts have fostered a new level of being. |
| Future topics | Wrote that out in previous q. |
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