Survey #230 Response from Ernestine
| Pronouns | She/her |
|---|---|
| What is your clutter keeping you from having, from being, or from doing? Describe how your life would be different if all of your clutter disappeared overnight. What new—or familiar—activities, experiences, or things would you invite into your space? | If all of the clutter disappeared overnight I could be cooking and baking more creative things, I could be looking at a house of my own to buy. I could have room to do creative things with arts & crafts, too. |
| Describe an item in your home that you feel as if you couldn’t live without. What meaning or significance does this item hold for you? What feelings does it evoke? Do you love it? Need it? Use it regularly? Feel a sense of obligation about it? (And so on.) | I don't feel like I can't live without an oil painting that my mother did. I live in an apartment, so I don't hang anything on the walls. But at least I know I have the picture, still after all of these years. My daughter will get it eventually. |
| If you had to leave your home suddenly with no certainty of ever being able to return, what’s the one thing that you would take with you, and why? For purposes of this question, assume or pretend that you don’t have an emergency evacuation bag or kit prepared, and you only have time to grab one treasured item on your way out the door. | I probably wouldn't have room or time to retrieve my mother's oil painting, so unfortunately it would have to be left behind. My purse isn't exactly a treasured item, but it might be the most practical thing that I could grab quickly. |
| 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. | How did Gayle become The Clutter Fairy? |
| Future topics | I'd like to know how to help a friend, who lives in another town, to get out of her overwhelm without physically going to her home. (We are both elderly (late 70s--to early 80s.) Neither of us is able to drive out of town much, and her daughter yells at her to get rid of things. |
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