Why We All Have Clutter and How to Get Rid of It

I feel like a massive hypocrite writing this piece, because substantial messes are found in virtually every square foot of my home. In fact, the last time I broached the topic of clutter in a blog, I posted a photo of my book piles and nut collection and was immediately contacted by a hoarding show to be “fixed” by an expert. Even though I fail miserably at decluttering my home, I do know it’s an important piece of mental health — that our environments affect us more than we’d like to believe. And it’s not even the Post-its all over your desk, the plastic dog toys strewn about the floor, or the homework on the table. It can be the 99 files on your computer desktop, or the 28,000 emails you haven’t deleted. In our modern society, when we get lambasted with information — dozens of pieces of junk mail in our physical mailbox and more in our email, not to mention social media. It’s an awesome task to stay on top of the clutter, and most of us don’t. Refrigerators: Clutter Magnets UCLA’s Center on Everyday Lives of Families (CELF) studied the homes of 32 Los Angeles families over four years (2001 to 2005) and published their findings in the book Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century. The families were dual-income, middle-class households with school-age children and represented a wide range of occupations and ethnic groups. But the results generated from almost 20,000 photos, 47 hours of family-narrated home video tours, and 1,540 h...
Source: World of Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Anxiety and Panic Depression Mental Health and Wellness OCD Self-Help Stress cleaning habits clutter Concentration hoarding neatness Procrastination stress reduction Stress Relief tidiness Source Type: blogs