Survey #267—Full Response from Tennessee Theresa
| Pronouns | She/her |
|---|---|
| Describe ways in which aging has negatively affected your ability, willingness, or desire to declutter or organize your home. | Orthopedic health and low vision slows down the ability to work o scrapbooking, labeling pictures and reducing collection to best representation of our family's history. Presently, I am going through my grandparents' and parents' photos that have NEVER been culled! My father and I have started going through some of them together. There are many pictures of family, friends and work colleagues neither one of us recognize. Although it has been fun at times, the volume is great. One day of tackling the pictures made my father declare that "in the 70s and 89s, we did not know how to take pictures!" I want to get 3 generations of pictures down to the smallest rep sample for my children, but I am limited on ability to working on it for big periods of time. |
| Describe ways in which getting older has positively affected your ability, willingness, or desire to declutter or organize your home. | 1. Now that I am in my 50s, I am able to look at things from my childhood and say,"I've kept it for 40 plus years and now it is time to release it." 2. My children most likely do not want most of the stuff I have kept. 3. I am positively impacting the state of my home and my children by making the decision to let things go. 4.Jjust because a loved one has given me something, it does not mean I have to keep it. |
| 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. | Just because I have the space for it, does not mean I should keep it. |
| 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. | Teacup Update: Thanks to Gayle addressing my teacup inheritance, I was able to reduce teacups from 38 to 12. I found my mom had 3 teacup sets. 12 is still a lot, but I am at peace with that number for now. I found I had little sentimentality to keep all of my wedding china cups. With Gayle's permission that you can break up a set, I easily reduced mine from 12 to 2. I have put 2 sets of teacups for my 2 granddaughters of 4 teacups each ( 1 cup from 4 generations). I will ask my cousins if they want some and if they do not, I will donate the rest. When sharing my task with friends, 1 friend wanted a teacup from my mother as a sweet reminder of my sweet mother. Also, I reached out to Replacements Ltd for 2 of the patterns. They were not even taking teacups from my 2 patterns and were only offering $1 for the dinner plates (plates that cost $30 each in the 90sj!). Another reinforcement that "No one wants my stuff" |
| Future topics | Questions to ask siblings when they are having a hard time letting go of deceased parents things. |
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