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<blockquote data-quote="Elsi" data-source="post: 745119" data-attributes="member: 23349"><p>This is the bottom line. I know you are 100% right. I actually HAVE helped both of them furnish places before. Where is all that stuff? Gone. Abandoned. Ruined. Even the air mattress and sheets and pillow I took downtown to C in August was too much for him to hold on to. It was left behind along with the security deposit and first month's rent for the room he lasted 6 weeks in. Sigh. At one point we had S all set up in a one-bedroom apartment of her own. It was fully furnished with donations from family and a few good will buys. She even had a cat! Everything is gone now, even that cat, lost to the streets while she and her friends were high one night. I hope someone else picked him up and gave him a home. So why do I keep trying with saving all this stuff? It needs to go. I can't give them any heirlooms left from the grandparents, and the practical stuff, as you say, can always be replaced. </p><p></p><p>Right. Weight room it is. Or workshop. Whichever R wants. She's waited long enough. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, I find her day-to-day communication too intrusive, though you can select "one email a day" instead of the drips she sends all day long. I'm not on her lists at all anymore, though. I've just retained what works for me - the Zone system (though I do my zones differently), creating morning and evening routines that help you keep already-clean-things clean, one daily 15-minute decluttering mission, etc. </p><p></p><p>Marie Kondo is perhaps a bit TOO minimalist for me, though I like her approach of asking yourself whether the things you are keeping are truly bringing you joy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Elsi, post: 745119, member: 23349"] This is the bottom line. I know you are 100% right. I actually HAVE helped both of them furnish places before. Where is all that stuff? Gone. Abandoned. Ruined. Even the air mattress and sheets and pillow I took downtown to C in August was too much for him to hold on to. It was left behind along with the security deposit and first month's rent for the room he lasted 6 weeks in. Sigh. At one point we had S all set up in a one-bedroom apartment of her own. It was fully furnished with donations from family and a few good will buys. She even had a cat! Everything is gone now, even that cat, lost to the streets while she and her friends were high one night. I hope someone else picked him up and gave him a home. So why do I keep trying with saving all this stuff? It needs to go. I can't give them any heirlooms left from the grandparents, and the practical stuff, as you say, can always be replaced. Right. Weight room it is. Or workshop. Whichever R wants. She's waited long enough. Yeah, I find her day-to-day communication too intrusive, though you can select "one email a day" instead of the drips she sends all day long. I'm not on her lists at all anymore, though. I've just retained what works for me - the Zone system (though I do my zones differently), creating morning and evening routines that help you keep already-clean-things clean, one daily 15-minute decluttering mission, etc. Marie Kondo is perhaps a bit TOO minimalist for me, though I like her approach of asking yourself whether the things you are keeping are truly bringing you joy. [/QUOTE]
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