Survey #160 Response from Lisa Beth
| Pronouns | She/her |
|---|---|
| Briefly describe the category or collection of items. | Art, crafts and repurposed architectural home decor in my Victorian home and multiple work areas. |
| Which of these statements best describes your strategy or approach for keeping the category of stuff you described above under control? | I buy new stuff in this category until my storage system is under stress, and then I purge to make room for additions. |
| Describe any issues you experience with using, storing, displaying, cleaning, maintaining, or organizing the category or collection you described above. | Many items are cross-categorical. I gave others the select spots since they have more organizational challenges and I can only control myself and make me pick up things. When I clear a space I have someone that tries to use that spot and a little more. By the time I gather my things from multiple spots, I'm out of time and energy. Im working on a new system but it's challenging since life means continuous transitions as I have 3 sons all heading out on their own at various levels currently. |
| Does you home have a “command center”—a spot where you spend a significant amount of time in a variety of activities (e.g., watching TV, reading, doing paperwork, eating meals or snacks, etc.)? | Yes |
| Where is your command center? | In the Bay window of the parlor which is used as a sort of family room. |
| If you sit in your command center and look around you, which of the following items are within close reach? |
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| You selected “Other” above. Please elaborate. | My trusty Results folder with calendar, to do list, plans and shopping lists. |
| How well does your command center fulfill the functions for which you use it? | very well except on paper days especially if someone comes in before i get it all processed It gets buried and overwhelming. I'm trying to get smaller amounts of paper out at a time and put things away as I go. It's hard to undo 58 years of bad paper habits with microhabits for filing and very time consuming things. I'm trying bigger buckets. But we have business and household paper that need filed in different ways which I'm now trying to separate between those 2 categories prior to working the piles. It's a challenge to flip back and forth between the household stuff that's paid for the month, keep until you get the one saying it's paid while using bill pay for backup records and the details of business tax filing. I'm a work in progress using a flowchart to filter paper and develop better habits. |
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