Clutter

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I have to admit that I tend to clutter, and so when I was reading an article about the "heaviness" of clutter, it got my attention. Clutter is thought to be related to procrastination, but for me, it is also comforting. It is comforting because my stuff in clearly on display.

And, is it clutter if you know where something is located? Or, can clutter be organized?

Do you clutter and if so, why do you think you do?

 

[The Amish Tyrant]

I can't stand clutter. It gives me anxiety.

I'm not the cleanest by any means, but like a clean space. Once clean, it is easy to maintain.

Now if I can get my toddler and significant other to understand ...

 

[Laurent]

I keep my house clutter free because it would drive me nuts. My workshop, is clutter but, I do know where everything is. I find that all the artists that I know, have cluttered workshops, maybe there’s something to that. However, when my workshop gets to much, I reorganize and start new clutter.

 

[Grangerous]

 

[scloyd]

I don't like any clutter, that's why I'm selling off some pipes, tobacco and pipe rests/racks. I want all of my pipes and tobacco contained in my 5 drawer pipe/tobacco cabinet. If you've seen pics of my smoking room, you've seen the four huge busts I have of Jefferson(2), Washington and Franklin. I'm currently looking for new homes for them.

My wife is retiring in three years and then we are going to move and downsize. For the past year or so I've been de-cluttering the basement, attic and garage. I didn't realize how much stuff we have that we don't need.

 

[Pipeoff]

I have always saved all kinds of left over building junk because of storage space in several outbuildings. I have tried to organize several times but just end up shifting items from one side to the other to the point that I find myself purchasing duplicate tools and other needed items that are buried. No more began to contribute to global warming with burning, Goodwill and dumping at the roadside trash collection.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I don't like any clutter, that's why I'm selling off some pipes, tobacco and pipe rests/racks. I want all of my pipes and tobacco contained in my 5 drawer pipe/tobacco cabinet. If you've seen pics of my smoking room, you've seen the four huge busts I have of Jefferson(2), Washington and Franklin. I'm currently looking for new homes for them.

My wife is retiring in three years and then we are going to move and downsize. For the past year or so I've been de-cluttering the basement, attic and garage. I didn't realize how much stuff we have that we don't need.

When I moved I purchased a trailer to take stuff to the recycle and trash convenience center. Then I gave the trailer to family.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I have always saved all kinds of left over building junk because of storage space in several outbuildings. I have tried to organize several times but just end up shifting items from one side to the other to the point that I find myself purchasing duplicate tools and other needed items that are buried. No more began to contribute to global warming with burning, Goodwill and dumping at the roadside trash collection.

My grandfather did the same and as a result we always had what we needed to make stuff.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

My house is clutter free. I can't function with things everywhere. It gives me anxiety also. But, in my studio, to a layman, it might look cluttered, but I grab tools that I need per job, and put them in my bench drawer, but as I finish jobs and move to things that require different tools, I am always organizing and making clutter on my bench, over and over. If one came in, it might look in disarray, but it is a highly organized wave upon wave of new tools spilled out and then putting them back. I also end each day in my studio by sweeping and putting everything up, so that I walk into a freshly organized studio each day... unless I have a job I am working on that spans several days.
My pipes too, get washed and dried at the end of each day, so that I face a pristine wall of pipes fresh each morning.

 

[JOHN72]

I hate to agree with Cosmic, but I agree with him. I like my house in order, I usually place my things in the same places or furniture, or whatever you want to call it. In short, I like cleanliness and order.

 

[JOHN72]

My house is clutter free. I can't function with things everywhere. It gives me anxiety also. But, in my studio, to a layman, it might look cluttered, but I grab tools that I need per job, and put them in my bench drawer, but as I finish jobs and move to things that require different tools, I am always organizing and making clutter on my bench, over and over. If one came in, it might look in disarray, but it is a highly organized wave upon wave of new tools spilled out and then putting them back. I also end each day in my studio by sweeping and putting everything up, so that I walk into a freshly organized studio each day... unless I have a job I am working on that spans several days.
My pipes too, get washed and dried at the end of each day, so that I face a pristine wall of pipes fresh each morning.

Same.............

 

[mso489]

We have a clutter problem. Much culling, hauling, and recycling to be done.

 

[Morrison Jeremiah]

Just sufficient clutter so the place looks like a home.

 

[kcghost]

I tend to leave things where I last had them. Yes, I am a clutterer.

 

[smokiespipesmoker123]

My wife and boy are slobs... and so am I, to a certain degree. But it reaches a point where you can only step over so many lego structures and hooded sweatshirts before you simply have to clean it up

 

[FALaholic]

I hate clutter, and so does my wife…thank you Lord for her!

I guess the only thing I have that would be considered clutter is the enormous amount of useless and ineffective face masks that we have everywhere?.

 

[captpat]

I sometimes have episodic clutter, like in the middle of a project. When I'm done everything gets restored to its proper place. We moved last year after 20 years in our previous house, the trips to Salvation Army and the county landfill were too numerous to mention. We're trying to avoid a repeat in our new home.

 

[cigrmaster]

I hate clutter. Everything has it's place and if I see holes, I find the item that is supposed to be in there, I put it where it belongs.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I looked at the title and asked who the heck would start a thread about clutter.......LOL!!

 

[mso489]

Clutter is probably a lesser version of the hoarding disorder that comes with a terrible insecurity about letting go of of possessions, basically anything that come through your hands. Vast stacks of newspapers and/or magazines is an overt version of this, such that people move through narrow tunnels in their homes between stacks of reading material they will never read again, on the certainly that they will. What is merely random is equated with beloved possessions.