Is there a stack of mail teetering toward a disaster on your counter? Do you have stacks of magazines from the 1980s that you haven’t looked at since? Find your clutter quotient with this quiz from Unclutter Your Home (Storey Publishing, 1999) by Donna Smallin.
Choose a number between 1 and 4 that best describes your response to each of the following statements.
1: Never or almost never.
2: Sometimes.
3: Usually.
4: All the time.
Then add them up and see how you score below.
1. When I have free time I like to shop.
2. I keep bills, bank statements and other mail in piles, until I have time to file.
3. I have more than 10 plastic bags in my house.
4. I save magazines with interesting articles/recipes.
5. When I look around, I get tired just thinking about what it will take to unclutter my home.
6. I have two or more craft projects going on at any one time.
7. My house may look messy to some people, but I know where to find everything.
8. If someone stops by unexpectedly, I try to avoid letting them in.
9. I leave things out so I know where they are or as a reminder to myself.
10. Time keeps me from getting or being organized.
11. When it comes to clutter, I think, “Why bother? It will just get cluttered again.”
12. I can’t bear to part with things and I consider myself a pack rat.
13. The stress level in our house is directly related to the clutter level.
Next: How did you score?
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My baby cats are getting older :( - 11 years old, so my vet recommended I give them "joint" vitamins…
great tips...i wish more people would read and heed...
Sounds like a great idea, except you need to take note during the meeting.
thank you for the ideas
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+ add your ownI was hanging my paintings so I can enjoy them to the full, when I found a neat plaque which I stuck on the wall as well:
"A Tidy House is a Sign of a Wasted Life!" ;)
Luckily for me, I have never ever let clutter control me.
Guess it takes a little initiative,efforts and self-motivation to maintain a neat tidy place
Nope.
Thanks
Thank you for sharing.
WHEW!
This was soooo useful....i really got scared;(
29, so I still can do better
good quiz
21 Not bad I think.
I got a 30. I tend to go back and forth between being organized and messy, but when I am messy, I am EXTREMELY messy. The art projects bit rang partcirually true for me. I would love to have a special room for art projects.
Part of the problem with the clutter, though, is that I live with two other fairly messy people. I go on cleaning sprees every once a month or something, but I leave their stuff alone, so the overall place remains messy... and this, of course, does not excuse my own proclivity towards slobbiness.
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