Survey #251—Full Response from Mary
| 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. | 80 years of photos starting with my mother’s unfinished albums. I have decided to start this week. I put it off 15 years. When forced to find a military picture of my father this past week I was able to find it within an hour. Came across my mother’s unfinished album and thought I’ll start here as photos that old are not abundant. So, I’m going to start slow and hoping fewer pictures will give me the win to continue. Also, my husband put most of our kids pictures on slides and that is a time consuming project to scan. They are not readily available. Wish me luck. |
| What advice might you give your younger self to help reduce or avoid the challenge you described in the previous question? | Start as it happens make time to at least make an album and keep up with kids milestones. I didn’t raise them in a digital world where you can make keepsake picture books. It does get hard with 3 kids and work and marriage to keep it all going. Time gets away from you very easily. |
| 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. | Lines closets, bathroom vanities, kitchen drawers and cabinets. I seem to gravitate to that more. Kind of easy decisions to make. The older you get it gets easier to say I never use this item and let it go. |
| 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 to number 1 photo organization. I feel overwhelmed. Number 3 I feel accomplished, orderly. |
| 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. | None at this time |
| Future topics | Emails, computer organizing. |
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