Survey #176 Response from Sara J
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| Which of the following categories of vulnerable people are present in your household? |
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| To what extent do you feel that clutter in your home represents a threat to the physical health, mental health, or safety of your family? |
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| What obstacles or issues interfere with your ability to address the clutter threats to health and safety in your home? | Have recently greatly decluttered. Need to declutter more in order to use closet and cupboard and shelf space better to eliminate the remaining 4 or 5 dangerous spots. | ||||||||
| Who is your favorite organizing authority or inspiration besides The Clutter Fairy? | Julie Morgenstern, Organizing from the Inside Out | ||||||||
| 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. | Hi! Speaking of Julie Morgenstern, she says that if a certain type of storage works for you ANd you like the aesthetics of it, that you should leave what works (and is appealing) well enough alone, and that maybe you would enjoy finding other similar storage solutions for other categories of things in your home. (This idea makes me think of materials, like wood or wicker or metal or glass containers, or ways of dividing storage containers that works for you...) Have you guys ever thought of mentioning that idea? It is explained much better in Julie Morgenstern's book Organizing from the Inside Out where she also discusses her SPACE method of organizing... Sort, Purge, Assign a home, Containerize, Equalize... So far here I have put like with like (Sort), and then I took a lot of boxes and bags out (Purged), and now that I think about it, I'm in the stage of putting items near where I use them (Assigning a home) now.... I know it's not right yet, because my arts & crafts materials ANd my greatly reduced papers are not in easily accessible & aesthetically stored (Containerize)... Not to mention straightening up areas of my home regularly and adjusting storage or moving or removing things if need be (Equalize)... But your voices kept me company through a very difficult decade of increasingly "tetrissing" my ever growing collections of objects, mostly food packages and the like!!! You both gave me the motivation to at the very least Put Like With Like!!!! So that when my 85 year old step mother decided, this past April (2023), to once and for all Declutter This Place, It was basically a breeze, because the entire apartment was Like With Like, so whole groups of things could be decided about very, very quickly and easily. Easily because she and my mother offered me a corner of their locked garage to store stuff in for up to a year If I Could Not Bear To Part With It, bur did not need it in the foreseeable future! Iv it hadn't been for that Pressure Release, I couldn't have let hardly anything go to Goodwill or recycling. Once we got my sitting area of my largest multipurpose room completely cleared and tidied up, I had a Great Motivation to do more and more, until I couldn't wait til my whole place was "Done" 👍🏼 ✅. Now I'm excited to downsize my collection of paper books, many of which I purchased one or two at a time for 50¢ each to support local charities on a table at the grocery store. My specific goal is to shrink my collection down to the point that I can free up about half the storage space to store other items in that space, that are currently messing up my large multi purpose room! I will continue to be a happy listener 💖 😌 to TCFW. By the way, is there a way to contribute by check? I cannot risk auto debit payments, as they are risks for bouncing my checking account. But I'd love to contribute after All you guys have done for me!!! 🙏😇🏞️🕊️😊👋🏼 | ||||||||
| Future topics | I have an idea for a "Listener Challenge"!!! How about... my challenge is, See how many things you can finally DO, between this week and next week, that you've been thinking of doing for "ages"? (This idea is based on my father, age 93!, finally taking his glass jar collection to a special drop off dumpster after at least 5 years of not being allowed to put glass into his weekly recycling!) |
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