Survey #276—Full Response from Em
| What useful decluttering or organizing strategies or methods did you take away from the book? | As our strengths can also be our weaknesses, our weaknesses can be turned to strengths. |
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| What parts or aspects of the book did you find difficult to grasp or challenging to apply to your home or situation? | I listened to the audio book, so there was no way to easily skip the parts about seeing doctors and getting drugs in order to overcome my clutter. Also, I did not enjoy the reader's voice. This is a book that would have been more valuable for me in the physical form. |
| Please share your favorite quotations or key ideas and concepts from this book. | My closet is beautifully organized by garment type and color. When I read the suggestion of organizing the closet by outfit, it struck me that my most favorite blouse ever, hung neatly by color with other blouses is useless if there or no clothes to go with it or if it has been overlooked as part of the closet landscape. I think going through the closet to create outfits will make it possible to eliminate more clutter clothing as well streamline the process of deciding what to wear. |
| Kolberg and Nadeau base most of their “ADD-friendly organizing strategies” on the idea that people with ADHD can reframe their neurodivergent traits as strengths, working with their ADHD to take charge of life. | What surprised me the most was the very high percentage of strategies I figured out for myself and have implemented over the decades, without having read the book. I assumed that the strategies I use were the normal way of coping with life. |
| Throughout the book, Kolberg and Nadeau suggest a three-pronged approach to applying their organizing strategies: You may do the work yourself; enlist the help of nonprofessionals, such as family and friends; and/or employ the services of professionals, such as professional organizers, ADHD coaches, and counselors. | So far, I have done all of my decluttering alone, mostly because I don't have family or friends who can help me. Because I already use so many of the strategies presented in the book, reading it made me wonder if, had I been born a few decades more recently, I would have been diagnosed as having ADD! It was disconcerting to hear over and over in the book about hiring mental health professionals or getting prescription drugs as a resolution to my clutter. |
| Please rate this book on a scale of one to five stars. | 3 |
| 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. | How do you organize for trips? Do you completely unpack into the drawers and surfaces provided in your room, or is it more efficient for you to live directly out of your suitcase and bags? |
| Future topics | Clutter on the Go. What are some guidelines for staying organized and decluttered when traveling? Is it better to unpack the bags completely in the room or live out of them so that nothing gets lost? What are some ways to spot what items are going to be in the way the entire trip? What about packing the car to minimize hassle--what goes inside and what goes in the trunk or on the roof? |
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