Survey #258—Full Response from Evelin
| Pronouns | She/her |
|---|---|
| What useful decluttering or organizing strategies or methods did you take away from the book? | the container concept |
| What parts or aspects of the book did you find difficult to grasp or challenging to apply to your home or situation? | the "no mess" decluttering method is not for me because it seems so slow. I prefer to take everything out of a drawer/closet/shelf... because it forces me to really deal with the stuff until I'm done |
| 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? | no, I get distracted so easily, if I would "take it there right now" I would find something else to work on there |
| 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? | the container concept: your house is a container, a room is a container, a drawer is a container - which means that you just can't keep everything. there is a physical limit. this mindset helps a lot in every area. |
| 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? | most visible stuff in my home is things that I left outside after using it and they just have to be put away. it's more about tidying. the rest is probably boxes,wrappers, etc... so it's probably either used regularly or trash 😀 |
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