{"id":2856,"date":"2024-03-23T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2024-03-23T09:38:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T09:38:18","slug":"living-with-a-messy-partner-tips-for-handling-different-organization-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=2856","title":{"rendered":"Living With a Messy Partner? Tips for Handling Different Organization Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When people with different tolerances for clutter live together, things can get tense. Experts offer ways to find peace amid the piles.<\/p>\n

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Last year, Tracy McCubbin \u2014 who has been a professional declutterer for two decades and lives by the motto \u201cdon\u2019t put it down, put it away\u201d \u2014 married a man she described as \u201cvery messy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both acknowledged the \u201ccosmic joke\u201d of their unlikely pairing. Ms. McCubbin put blue painter\u2019s tape on every drawer and cupboard in the kitchen when the pair first moved in together, offering a map to what goes where. But she has also learned to practice what she preaches to her clients, staying cool and calm about messes that don\u2019t affect her day-to-day functioning. Like his night stand, which is buried under books, charging cables and remotes to TVs she is fairly certain they no longer own.<\/p>\n

Or the jumble of tools her husband, an avid gardener, tends to leave in the yard. \u201cIt\u2019s all over the place,\u201d Ms. McCubbin sighed. \u201cBut you know what? We have a beautiful garden. Our fruit trees are fruiting. It\u2019s really been about understanding: This part doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. McCubbin, and other experts in organizing as well as psychology, said there were a few practical strategies that could help pack rats and neatniks cohabitate in relative harmony.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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