How many good reasons are there to keep clutter?

None. Clutter is stuff you don’t use or love and if you don’t use or love it it shouldn’t be in your home. Those who read my blog or hire my services already know that the goal of decluttering and organizing is to keep only the items that you "know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." William Morris said that and he was smart. Smart, I'm telling you. Really smart. So, once you get rid of the items that don't fit the William Morris model, you will have no clutter. None. Zero. You might have a disorganized pile of paperwork needed to be filed away, but that isn’t clutter. That’s just a task to be scheduled.

How many super bad reasons are there to keep clutter? Probably to infinity and beyond but here are the top four:

They were wedding gifts! and 
They were expensive! and you 
Might need them later! and your 
Grandmother gave it to you and now she’s dead.

Look, I’m sorry about your grandmother but grandmas die. And so will you. And when you die you will leave a bunch of stuff for others to wade through, sort out, box up, and get rid of. And whoever’s sweeping up after your whirlwind existence on this earth will be oh so grateful if you lighten their load by getting rid of things that have no meaning or use to you. There’s a Swedish word for this: dostadning, which is a hybrid of the words death and cleaning. More on this in another post. 

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