Survey #267—Full Response from Mary
| Pronouns | She/her |
|---|---|
| Describe ways in which aging has negatively affected your ability, willingness, or desire to declutter or organize your home. | Realizing who am I kidding? At 72 I need to get this done sooner than later. Age is a factor with unforeseen setbacks with less agility and stamina I use to have. I’m sentimental too and hard to let it all go. I can’t leave this for my grown children. I’ve had to clean our 2 elders homes and one was a hoarder. I believe it was 150 trips over an hour away took 6 months. I still had my youngest home at the time. Who had to come on weekends to help his mom and dad with this task. He’s now an adult and way more minimal and less sentimental than I ever was. I’m sure his experience at 12 was a real learning experience. Yet still hard for me but I have to buckle down and get this done. |
| Describe ways in which getting older has positively affected your ability, willingness, or desire to declutter or organize your home. | A bit of all three examples, decision fatigue, no one will want most of this stuff. My children have their own stuff and their own homes. Yes, I like to see space now that is empty. |
| 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 have a ranch house so that is good for aging but a basement with the same square footage. That’s what I want much less of. We’ve managed to fill it up after 40 years. It’s a big space and much of it is used but still plenty of extras. Needs change over the years. |
| 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. | Are you able to keep a clutter free space with so much you are doing for others . Do you ever get burn out yourself? |
| Future topics | Any pictures of your place like the bead room or kitchen? |
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