Survey #288—Full Response from Lesley
| Pronouns | She/her |
|---|---|
| What did you learn about yourself or your stuff through your decluttering and organizing process in 2025? | I’ve fallen off the wagon! And decluttering does NOT get easier with age! |
| What new decluttering or organizing ideas, methods, or techniques proved helpful in 2025? Were there any game-changers? | Toss-Keep is as good as it gets. I no longer have the bandwidth to donate. I do set stuff on the curb. The most helpful technique for me is to have a none judgemental friend sit and tell me to stay focused while managing my dogs who like to interrupt the process. Also having a second person available to remove the stuff I’m ready to discard. I lose momentum filling the car (doesn’t take long) and delivering items to donation destinations. |
| 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)? | The biggest, most impossible challenge for me was having to take interior photos of my living room, kitchen, and bathroom for home owner’s insurance to estimate my renewal premium 😳 OMG it was either I take them or an agent would and no way anybody was coming in my house! Clearing the clutter was horrendous, thankfully, two friends came and sat in my living room and played with my dogs and kept me calm. It was very stressful as there’s just a lot of stuff and my energy level is inversely proportional to the amount of stuff 😨 however multiple 3-day weekends and an extension from the insurance company made it possible along with my dear friends! |
| 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? | Uh, trying not to let those particular spaces get cluttered again, but it’s just hard when I still work full time and have a side hustle of pet sitting to cover basic bills. |
| 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. | Thank you for all you and Ed do to encourage those of us who feeling we are constantly shoveling against the tide of clutter! |
| Future topics | PS A shower curtain can hide a lot of junk! |
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