✒ Easy Item

What is the item? _________________________________________________

Check the box next to any of the following you experienced. For anything
you checked, please add whatever comments you think would be helpful.

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□ I had difficulty keeping my attention on task.
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□ I had difficulty deciding what category it fit into.

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□ I had a hard time making a decision.

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□ I thought of more and more reasons to keep it.
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□ I felt like I needed to keep it to help my memory.

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□ I was concerned about being wasteful or irresponsible.

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□ I was worried about making a mistake or being imperfect.

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□ I felt sentimentally or emotionally attached to the item.

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□ I felt like the item was part of who I am.

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□ It felt unsafe or out of control to part with the item.

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□ It felt too uncomfortable or difficult to part with the item.
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□ Other
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On a scale from 0–10, how difficult was it to part with the item?

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Extremely Pretty Easy Moderately Difficult Pretty Extremely
Easy Difficult Difficult

Did you actually part with the item? _____ Yes _____ No

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