Survey #267—Full Response from The Maggs

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Describe ways in which aging has negatively affected your ability, willingness, or desire to declutter or organize your home.Downsizing is the worst! All the years of accumulating now has to be dealt with. All the previous generations’ stuff now has to find a new home, and the next generations do t want much of it. Being retired now helps with the time, but not much else.
Describe ways in which getting older has positively affected your ability, willingness, or desire to declutter or organize your home.One of my new sayings is “I can’t take it to the nursing home so it needs to find a new home”. That has really helped along with taking pictures of what was once treasured items.
Describe ways in which you’d like for your space and belongings to better support your goals and dreams for the next years of your life.We just want through the downsizing process. Went from a 2400 sq ft house to a house of 1600 sq ft. That was very hard to do.
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.Thank you for the episodes on the emotional attachment of items. That is so very helpful!
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