Survey #282—Full Response from Em
| Describe a situation in which someone successfully assisted you with a decluttering or organizing project. What factors contributed to the success of the collaboration? | Once a friend helped me move stuff, She did not criticize what she saw; merely taking things to the place I instructed. Otherwise, I can't think of a time when anyone has agreed to help me. |
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| Describe a situation in which you asked for help with decluttering or organizing, but were unsatisfied with the results. What factors contributed to your dissatisfaction? | I have a friend who had had prfessional organizers in her home at least twice and who was continuing to declutter. One at least two occasions, I asked her advice on decluttering, her answer was merely, :I don't know. It's hard." |
| 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 organized small portions of people's stuff--a closet or two, a drawer, things like that. In all cases, they were thrilled with the results. The way I did it was study the person's habits that allowed the disorganization and compare that with how the space needed to function. If the habit was to dig, then the organization had to be to make each thing visible and readily grab-able. If the habit was to toss, then the solution was to make target areas with categories to receive the items. If the babit was to roam around the house, then the items needed a landing spot where they were usually used. |
| 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 offered to organize a friend's clothes closet. The shoes were heaped high on the floor and the clothing crammed in every which way. She gave me premission but warned me that she did not want the clothes organized by color. She did not want to get rid of anything. Studying the closet, I could only see that she must have shoved things in it and just remembered the general area. I needed far more input from her to know how to improve her closet. Apparently it worked pretty well for her as it was. The best I could do was put missing shoes with their partners. |
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