
	What would you love to do, if only your clutter were sorted?

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1. A friend asks to see your high school yearbook photo. You:
a. Have every yearbook from every year of school, but aren’t certain about where any of them are. b. Can quickly retrieve the yearbook from the bookshelf where all your yearbooks are chronologically arranged. c. Climb into the attic and are never seen again. d. Threw away your high school yearbook years ago.

2. You’ve just knocked down a wall in your home and have a pile of used lumber. You:
a. Pull out the nails and save the boards. b. Save the boards and the unbent nails, placing them in little jars, separated by size. c. Save the boards and all the nails. d. Throw away the boards, the nails, and the hammer, since it’s broken.

3. At a yard sale, you:
a. Hope to find that missing collectible you’ve been searching for. b. Move quickly, since you have a long list of yard sales that you plan to hit before noon and very specific items you’re looking for. c. Buy something you’re not sure you need, but can’t pass up. d. Wouldn’t be caught dead.

4. When your eyeglass prescription changes, you:
a. Keep the old pair “just in case” b. Immediately donate the old pair to charity c. Plan to donate the old pair to charity, and therefore carry them in your car’s glove compartment for a long time until they are too bent up and scratched to be used by anybody. d. Throw the old pair away immediately.

5. You videotape a television program. You:
a. Add it to the other tapes of that program, hoping to complete the set. b. Label it and file it alphabetically with the others in your video cabinet. c. Put it in the enormous stack of videos you intend to watch someday and never get around to. d. Erase the tape after watching it and use it again.

6. You misplace something of importance – think of your keys – in your house:
a. Occasionally. b. Rarely. c. Daily. d. Never.

7. Which of the following items do you have? Multiple answers possible:
	a. Items you have collected but not looked at in more than a year.
	b. Labelled file cabinets, drawers, shelves, boxes or other storage containers that actually contain the item(s) listed on the label.
	c. Magazines or newspapers more than two months old that you are keeping until you get a chance to read them.
	d. A dining room table with only a centrepiece on it.

8. Which statement describes something you have ever done? Multiple answers possible:
	a. Purchased something you didn’t like because it was part of a set.
	b. Sacrificed a room to clutter to keep the rest of the house clean.
	c. Bought something you didn’t need because it was a bargain.
	d. Argued with someone who wanted to keep something you intended to throw away.

Source: Cut the Clutter and Stow the Stuff: the Q.U.I.C.K. way to bring lasting order to household chaos, edited by Lori Baird, Rodale books. See resources.

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