Quotes About Clutter

We spend most of our lives holding on to objects, he thought, and finally they fall from our cold dead hands and those who tidy up after us have to worry of what to do with all this stuff.

big blue plastic bin.

I clean out my house weekly. I just keep a lot of silly little things that are meaningful to me.

I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down.

To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.

Keeping physical items from the past is important - we keep old toys, grandparents' jewelry, yearbooks, dance recital programs - and we assign meaning to them. Those items become the memories, and that's a very healthy thing to do. The problems occur when we have too many of those sentimental items, and they start weighing us down.

The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight.

I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.

I have a lot of game apps I need to delete.

It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us.

My desktop is really chaotic, and I'm always trying to work out where I am going to put all these ideas.

Everyone deserves to have some caged clutter, to tuck away a few items somewhere, but this is not the same as cramming stuff to the ceiling in the garage,

When you have chaos and clutter in your work or living space, you have chaos and clutter in your mind and in your heart. When clutter surrounds you, your mind becomes jumbled;

Having a plan gives you hope. Being able to imagine yourself in control of your clutter gives you hope.

Another good tip is to set boundaries on your beloved accumulations. When the yarn or drawings or tiles or glass or whatever reach a certain level, stop collecting and start disposing. You know in your heart that in the blink of an eye, more will come your way.

The more possessions you have, the more you have to make room for, take care of, protect, sometimes insure, and sometimes worry about losing them to theft, fire, or other catastrophes. Yet when you start to get rid of your unneeded possessions, you can rejoice in a newfound freedom, for you are no longer "owned" by all your possessions.

Actually, clutter stems from four bad habits, which I call the Deadly Sins of Clutter. Do you: • Save everything (whether you need it or want it or not)? • Insist on bringing home (or allowing into your home) stuff you don't need? • Never assign a place where each thing belongs? • Set things aside or drop them, intending "to put them away later"?

The trouble with, "A place for everything and everything in its place" is that there's always more everything than places.

How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.

Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.

Another one is cleaning up tool that have been used and not put away and are cluttering up the place. This is a good one because one of the first warning signs of impatience is frustration at not being able to lay your hand on the tool you need right away. If you just stop and put tools away neatly you will both find the tool and also scale down your impatience without wasting time or endangering the work.

My purse, like all purses, seems to have a traveling black hole in it.

no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It is a rule.