Present: Cindy Harrington (SOS), Maria Geizer (Home Instead), Linda Powers (Home Instead), Donna Rudzinski (Shenendehowa Village), Rick Amico (Community Hospice), Candy Rivera-Whitehead (NYS EPIC), Holly Pajak (Redesign in Mind), Karen Laing (Your Health Advocate), Jen Herrington (MACSC), Tyler McEachron (MACSC), Dorian LeRoy (MACSC), Krissy Goodspeed (Interim), Larry Finkle (Experience Works), Ruth Jacobs (Community Health Center), Ann Quinn (Home Health Care Partners), Cathy Tucker (Ameriprise Financial), Ellen Egger-Aimone (private Geriatric Care Manager), Reed Lehan (Saratoga County DSS), Mary Rickard (Saratoga County OFA), Linda Rose (Experience Works), Kim Swire (CHOICES at St. Peter’s).
Introduction:
Cindy Harrington welcomed all attendees and reminded everyone that the next meeting will take place on Jan. 14th at the Saratoga United Methodist Church. This will be a networking meeting. Please note that in the event of inclement weather, we will follow the schedule of Saratoga County MOW delivery.
Attendees introduced themselves.
Today’s Topic and Presenter:
Hoarding and De-Cluttering, presented by Holly Pajak of Redesign in Mind.
Holly owns and operates Redesign in Mind, which focuses on senior moves, offering both the physical and emotional assistance people need when moving.
What is Clutter? Clutter is made up of things you don’t use and don’t love. Often it includes things that are broken, that can’t be fixed. Usually clutter is untidy, and disorganized, with too many things in too small a space.
Clutter Personalities:
The Deferrer: I’ll think about that tomorrow.
The Rebel: I don’t want to and you can’t make me.
The Perfectionist: Next week, I’ll organize everything – Perfectly!
The Hoarder: This might come in handy someday (often rooted in insecurity, financial or emotional).
Hoarding is the compulsive purchasing, acquiring, searching and saving of items that have little or no value.
Reasons behind hoarding:
- Fear of losing important information (hoarding newspapers, most common type of hoarding)
- Want to avoid wasting things
- Objects may have emotional meaning
- People may appreciate the way objects look
2 – 5% of Americans fit the criteria for hoarding, and there is a common link between hoarding and depression, anxiety and ADHD.
In order to beat clutter, there are several tips to follow: For example, when cleaning out your closets, ask the following – Do I wear it? Do I love it? Is it flattering? Does it fit well?
Discard everything that is faded, discolored, lost its shape, or needs repair. Also discard what is too small, and what you haven’t worn in a year or 2. Consider donating clothes to organizations that you believe in, so that you can feel good about the donation.
To refrain from cluttering, a person must change the way s/he thinks about the value of material attachments, therefore breaking societal norms and letting go of old behaviors.
For more information about this and Redesign in Mind, please call Holly Pajak at 339-7361 or email her at hollyatredesigninmind.com. Feel free to check out her website at www.redesigninmind.com.
Respectfully Submitted,
Maria Geizer
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