Are you a clutterer?
Want to take a clutter quiz? Might you be at risk of surrounding yourself in clutter? Gretchen at the Happiness Project developed a series of questions to help readers of her blog determine if they might be candidates for clutter.
My favorite question?
[Does this] sound like something you’d say … “This is perfectly useful, I can’t just throw it away.”
Enjoy the diversion, and let us know how you scored. I know that I am definitely diagnosed!
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Posted by Erin on Jun 16, 2007 |
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Posted by sharon - 06/16/2007
Well, technically I am not according to that quiz. But they forgot to ask other questions like Are you just friggin” lazy?
Posted by roothorick - 06/17/2007
I agree with sharon, most of my clutter problem comes from being just plain too lazy to throw a random empty food bag in the garbage. Another part of it is poor planning — I put my CD case way over in the corner of the room, but now I don’t want to get up and put CDs back in the case, so I just leave them around my desk.
For me it really is about organizing. Oh, and making sure more shit doesn’t come in.
Posted by Jessica Duquette - 06/17/2007
I don’t believe in laziness. I’ve noticed that my clients who might identify themselves as ‘lazy’ are actually either acting from a feeling of low self worth, or their actions (or NON actions) are a form of passive agressive behavior towards a parent (who may or may not be present!) or a spouse. Kinda like being a rebel without a cause. Only YOU are the one that suffers. The cost of being disorganized is embarrassment, late fees, missed fun, alienating people that love you, lonliness, duplicating purchases, rotten food, valuables damaged from neglect, etc.
In my book, laziness is not worth it!
just my two cents.
jessica
If you love your clutter, then it’s not clutter, but it causes you a pain in your heart, maybe it’s time to grow up?
Posted by Erin - 06/17/2007
I don’t fully agree with Jessica. Laziness can come from exhaustion, physical limitations, and poor system design in addition to emotionally charged laziness that is described in the previous post. In my previous career when I worked 60 to 80 hours a week on average, the last thing that I wanted to do when I came home from work was laundry. Laundry piled up because the only times when I was home I was sleeping. People with other physical limitations may decide to not get up to throw out some trash because it is just easier on their bodies not to do so. Finally, sometimes laziness sets in because the organizational system in place is too cumbersome or poorly designed. I know this is definitely the case with my filing cabinet. The “system” that I had designed on my own for my files was hideous, which meant that I never filed papers. After I purchased and implemented the FreedomFiler system, I haven’t had any problems with filing papers or being lazy about my paper organization.
Emotions can play a part in laziness, but they are certainly not the only culprit.
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