While it seems perfectly logical that if you have too much stuff, you should get rid of it, a great deal of emotion is attached to some of these possessions. “If I show them something and they touch it, they tend to keep it,” Robison says, “but if I show it to them and they don’t touch, but tell me a story about it, they let it go.”
Robison won’t work with people who can’t make changes, because she can’t accomplish the job. She has to work with the client. In Robison’s line, the client makes the decisions, not the consultant.
Robison works with people of all ages, especially those who have lost spouses. “We separate possessions into ‘active’ and ‘inactive’ areas,” she says. But often what Robison and others might consider inactive do not seem inactive to the client.
“I once worked with a woman whose son had died,” she says. “I suggested that we put the son’s grade school papers into the inactive pile. But the woman put them into the active pile because, for her, they were.”
The goal is to get possessions under a reasonable limit, then arrange them so they are accessible. The rest can go out on the curb marked “free” or be featured in a yard sale. Your unwanted clutter will get a new lease on life, cluttering someone else’s house.
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