Survey #282—Full Response from Gabriella
| Pronouns | She/her |
|---|---|
| Describe a situation in which someone successfully assisted you with a decluttering or organizing project. What factors contributed to the success of the collaboration? | I always declutter by myself. |
| 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 helped my partner declutter his papers. What made it successful, was that I suggested that we limit the decluttering sessions to 10 minutes per day. This kept him from feeling overwhelmed and procrastinating because of it. I held each document in front of him and he would make a quick keep/toss decision. All I did was put the document on the respective pile. At the end of each daily session I got rid of the toss pile. By this method he made great progress within 2 weeks. |
| 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 have repeatedly offered help to a close friend, but he prefers to declutter by himself - which I understand quite well, because I prefer to declutterby myself too. Nevertheless, I try to support my friends "psychologically" in their decluttering process,, e. g. by - reassuring ("normalizing") that decluttering is indeed often hard or tedious and just about everybody experiences this at times - encouraging them that they could really enjoy their beautiful things if they put them out for display and/or used them - and got rid of the items they nolonger cared for - gently suggesting that it may be better to do shorter sessions at a time instead of getting exhausted from trying to do too much all at once |
| Future topics | A personal review of decluttering in 2025: |
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