Survey #251—Full Response from Overwhelmed & Sad
| Pronouns | She/her |
|---|---|
| Describe a category of stuff, an area of your home, or an organizing or decluttering project or task that you’ve found particularly challenging. | Personal papers, family stuff, bills, things I think I'll eventually use |
| What advice might you give your younger self to help reduce or avoid the challenge you described in the previous question? | Don't let this mess get started or tackle it when it's a small project - don't let it get too big of a project. I should've kept my promise to myself to not get a storage unit. Don't think you'll have all the time in the world to do something about it, because time goes by too fast & other things come up out of nowhere... |
| Describe a category of stuff, an area of your home, or an organizing or decluttering project or task that you’ve found satisfying or enjoyable to work on. | Clothes. Either they fit or they don't. I like them or I want to get rid of them, sometimes they need too much repair to be practical. |
| What feelings or emotions do you associate with your answer to the first question (The Challenge)? What feelings or emotions do you associate with your answer to the third question (The Good Stuff)? | The challenge stuff: overwhelmed, helpless, frustrated. The good stuff: encouraged, hopeful, satisfied |
| 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. | I used to belong to Clutterers Anonymous. I even started a local meeting years ago. I closed it because there were some members that caused an unbearable situation to keep reoccurring, so I gave them the ultimatum, either take over the meetings themselves or I close them. The meetings were helpful to some extent. I'm having trouble now because I feel because I haven't dealt fully with my actions of cluttering, I keep going through the same situations, over & over again- relapsing, if you will. I realize I have those cluttering tendencies, but seem unable to stop myself when it first begins. It's almost like I don't realize the process is starting over again & it gets out of hand before I can stop it. I need to clean out my house so I can sell it, but am very ashamed to have anyone see it in its present condition. I cannot afford to have someone come in & am trying to have my niece come help me with the heavy lifting. She has starting to work on my storage unit, but the process is very slow. I have a trust issue with her sometimes & I don't know how to get past that. She wants to make decisions about my stuff that I want to have a say in & often makes decisions without asking me at all. I've been staying with my sister since my surgery a couple years ago & I want to go home. |
| Future topics | Keeping motivated. |
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