Survey #288—Full Response from The Maggs
| What did you learn about yourself or your stuff through your decluttering and organizing process in 2025? | I learned that by taking the time to honor or realize how the individual items played a role at the time, it has been easier for me to let them go. Example: I kept a box of pamphlets for our travels 20 years ago. I thought that I could not part with the box. But I sat down and looked at each booklet or pamphlet and saw they were from 2001-2002. I looked through each of them and I was able to let them go. I felt they had served their purpose. |
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| What new decluttering or organizing ideas, methods, or techniques proved helpful in 2025? Were there any game-changers? | My newest technique that I have been using since retirement is the realization that at some point my children or others will need to go through all of our stuff we have accumulated. So I have been making hard decisions about “am I taking this to the nursing home? Or will my children want this” when contemplating a purchase. That has really helped me! |
| What did you accomplish in 2025 for which you’d like to pat yourself on the back (and enjoy the acknowledgments of The Clutter Fairy community)? | After selling our big house in 10/24 and moving into 2 smaller houses I have done a great job with managing the stuff we have kept. Both of our houses are very manageable. I have a lot of work to reduce what we no longer need and want to get to this point. Very proud of how we currently live. |
| How do you plan to apply what you learned in 2025 to your 2026 projects? What new decluttering or organizing projects would you like to take on next? | I have a closet of boxes from when our children were younger. I want to tackle that so the closet could be used by our guests when the visit. I did declutter boxes of school art projects down to 1 folder which was quite an accomplishment considering I kept nearly all of it as it came in. Wish I knew of the keeping a representative sample during those years. Would have made it so much easier easier. |
| 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. | Emotional clutter techniques are always helpful. |
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