Survey #282—Full Response from The Maggs (Maggie)
| Describe a situation in which someone successfully assisted you with a decluttering or organizing project. What factors contributed to the success of the collaboration? | Listening to the clutter fairy has helped me so much. From the advice of “keeping a representative sample” of things, to “giving ourselves permission” to declutter something and let go to the encouragement of the small victories along the way. All has been so helpful! Also, having my daughter at my house and having her help me with decluttering has really helped. Mainly because she also “gave me permission “ to declutter things I though she wanted. |
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| Describe a situation in which you successfully assisted someone else with a decluttering or organizing project. What factors contributed to the success of your efforts? | I have helped my daughter declutter things at her house, as she helped me. My main help to her was trashing a very expensive rumba that she purchased but was broken. She held onto this for over 2 years, and last week when I was at her house we talked about it and I said it was time for it to go. She agreed and I took it to the trash can and she was ok with it. My help was a relief to her, she said as she could not bring herself to getting rid of it herself. It is now gone! |
| Describe a situation in which you offered help with decluttering or organizing, but you didn’t achieve the desired results. What factors contributed to coming up short of success? | I once offered my help to my mother who is a hoarder. She did not take me up on my offer and she continues to hoard. I cannot help her if she does not want it. I am sad I could not help her. |
| 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. | I just want to privately say thank you to you both. You have helped me so much. My house now has wide open rooms and space to move about. My bedroom only has a few boxes of sand in the corner and my closet is neat and organized and I have plenty of room if I need it. Thank you both so much! |
| Future topics | The emotional clutter we all struggle with. Can never have enough sessions on this! |
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