Quotes About Clutter

Everything is a mess around our house. We do all our work here, but we try to get out once a day.

I hate a messy closet. I totally freak out when my closet is messy and I can't find anything.

Forgetting to pay bills • Living in a messy, disorganized environment

the cumulative cost of the noncrucial things we clutter our lives with can far outweigh the small benefits each individual piece of clutter promises.

This is why clutter is dangerous. It's easy to be seduced by the small amounts of profit offered by the latest app or service, but then forget its cost in terms of the most important resource we possess: the minutes of our life.

Stuff accumulates in people's lives, in part, because when faced with a specific act of elimination it's easy to worry, "What if I need this one day?," and then use this worry as an excuse to keep the item in question sitting around.

more often than not, the cumulative cost of the noncrucial things we clutter our lives with can far outweigh the small benefits each individual piece of clutter promises.

Thoreau's obsession with calculation helps us move past the vague subjective sense that there are trade-offs inherent in digital clutter, and forces us instead to confront it more precisely. He asks us to treat the minutes of our life as a concrete and valuable substance—arguably the most valuable substance we possess—and to always reckon with how much of this life we trade

Digital minimalists recognize that cluttering their time and attention with too many devices, apps, and services creates an overall negative cost that can swamp the small benefits that each individual item

Vincent had a cupboard where he kept books he'd been gifted that he never intended to read but couldn't bring himself to throw out. You couldn't throw books out – that was the rule.

the heart is like a box; if it is filled with rubbish, there is no space for other things.

Ella me hizo ver que el corazón es como una caja: si está ocupada con porquería, falta espacio para otras cosas.

I'm a zero inbox guy.

If a cluttered desk is an indication of a cluttered mind, what is indicated by an empty desk?

Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice, it is merely custom.

The biscuit tin shouldn't be handy - move it about a bit. Try to keep it out of the way.

The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.

The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information.

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.

There's nothing wrong with having a collection, but it becomes a problem when it overwhelms your space. When you're not displaying it properly, you're not enjoying it and it turns into clutter.

Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.

It's easier to get rid of things when you're giving them to someone who can use them, but don't let this kind intention become a source of clutter itself. I have a friend who has multiple piles all over her house, each lovingly destined for a particular recipient.

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

I love my shed. It's my space and my mess - and I know where everything is.